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...sometimes linked to the "Saihkal" partisans, who attacked a village of that name near the Caspian Sea in 1965. U.S. intelligence analysts believe that last week's attack on the American embassy, as well as a raid on the Moroccan embassy, was the work of a fedayeen splinter group called the Cherikhaye Fedaye Khalq (People's Sacrifice Guerrillas). This group is believed to have received training and aid over the years from Libya and radical Palestinians. Though Marxist in ideology, it is not considered necessarily to be under the control of Moscow or Iran's Tudeh (Communist...
Khuzestan is a land of extreme contrasts. Shepherds patrol its rocky bluffs; shrouded women kneel at the banks of mountain streams, pounding their laundry in the frigid waters. Across this primitive scene, an aluminum pipeline traces its course like a splinter of light across the land, eventually becoming part of the maze of an oil refinery. Today in Khuzestan, ancient faith and modern wealth have blended into an irresistible political force. It has emasculated what is left of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's influence and placed Khuzestan's wealth of oil and natural gas in the hands...
Before he was an architect, Johnson became the director of the architecture department of Manhattan's fledgling Museum of Modern Art. In 1936 he scandalized his colleagues by resigning from his post and, imbued with fervor for Nazi Germany, trying to start a splinter fascist party in America. This failed, and in 1940 Johnson entered architecture school. He had backed into the profession as a critic, but in the process he had helped bring Mies van der Rohe to America and fought bravely to shift avant-garde taste in the direction of the same Utopian machine culture he would...
...last year partly by campaigning, in effect, against gays. "There are thousands upon thousands of frustrated, angry people waiting to unleash a fury that can and will eradicate the malignancies which blight our city," his brochures declared. "I am not going to be forced out of San Francisco by splinter groups of radicals, social deviates, incorrigibles...
...Unfortunately the millennial temple site is in the hands of one of many splinter groups. The largest of these is the "Reorganized" Latter-day Saints (186,000 members), formed by Smith's heirs, who opposed Young's takeover...