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Just as the Hezbollah and Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
...nation needs solutions, even imperfect ones, to its immense problems; fine-tuning can come later. It's true that a huge majority for either party would probably grease the wheels of government, but straying towards a one-party system is an ominous sign. Having dozens of splinter parties might foster some of the dynamism of a true democracy, but neither of the current parties will want to be the first to disintegrate. Some people suggest term limits for elected officials as a solution, but there's little reason to suspect that experience is the root of the problem...
...event that the "political battles" to come cannot resolve such differences, Ulster residents are all too aware that none of the paramilitary organizations have shown any willingness to hand over their weapons. On the Republican side, armed splinter groups like the Irish National Liberation Army have not even joined the truce. For the present, though, like survivors of a long, dark winter, the citizenry on both sides came out to exult in the new light, hesitantly unwinding their nerves and reflexes after 25 years...
There were encouraging signs that a genuine two-party system is beginning to emerge. Six splinter parties did very poorly; so did the leftist P.R.D., led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, which won only 17%. His party seems likely to fracture and fade further. Meanwhile, the center-right, business-oriented National Action Party (P.A.N.) surged from 16% of the electorate in 1988 to almost 27%. % The party looks like a challenger in the making. "For the P.A.N.," says Denise Dresser, a political scientist at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, "the race did not end on Aug. 21. It began...
Snodgrass and Nguyen say they think ethnicgroups on campus tend "to splinter people" anddiscourage interracial dating, though Gubbinscautions that opinions within groups vary...