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...leader predict an 80-20 victory for himself, were shading that estimate back to 60-40. At least two senior members of Marcos' Cabinet were even more cautious, predicting only a 55-45 win for the President. Exulted Linggoy Alcuaz, an official of one of the country's myriad splinter opposition parties: "There are times in history when things come to a boil, and this is one of them...
...people who attended the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference last week in Phoenix, which was billed by its organizers as "probably the largest gathering ever devoted to the practice of psychotherapy." Part trade show, part ecumenical conference, the meeting drew participants from 29 countries and dozens of therapeutic splinter groups. Jeffrey Zeig, the director of Phoenix's Milton H. Erickson Foundation, which helped sponsor the event, counted 15 major schools of thought on the program, plus Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist who does not believe that mental illness even exists...
Prior to that key matchup, the team will splinter this weekend for some individual tuneups: Harvard's top three players will journey to the Princeton Invitationals, while the next nine on the roster will face Bowdoin...
...Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres emerged with a slightly strengthened political hand from a bout of squabbling that enveloped his national unity government. By an 86-to-6 vote of the Knesset, Peres easily survived a no-confidence motion brought by Tehiya, a tiny right-wing splinter party. The motion was intended to force Peres to withdraw an offer that he had made a week earlier before the United Nations General Assembly. The Israeli leader told the U.N. that Israel might concede a role in the peace process to a vaguely defined "international forum" as an inducement for Jordan...
...Achille Lauro proved one thing: that terrorism, horrifying in its immediate impact, can also have dangerous side effects that are as hard to control as they are to foresee. Certainly no one would have forecast the chain of events triggered by the four scruffy young members of a splinter of the Palestine Liberation Front who were being interrogated last week in a maximum-security prison in Spoleto about their role in the Achille Lauro hijacking. Nor could Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the man U.S. authorities were pursuing with grim determination from Italy to Yugoslavia to the murkier reaches...