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...latest act of violence by Palestinian guerrillas took place on the anniversary of the Munich massacre, in which members of a fedayeen organization called Black September killed eleven Israeli athletes during the Olympic Games. The embassy episode was perpetrated by a splinter group called Al 'Iqab (the Punishment), which even the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut professed not to know about...
...coalition never formed in 1971. The radicals who shouted down the pro-war speakers at the Counter-Teach-In in March ran roughshod over liberal territory. Denying the Nixon supporters their right to free speech, however disgusting their positions, rubbed the liberals the wrong way--and served to splinter the coalition, thus eliminating the chance for an active Spring...
Both India and Pakistan are faced with the problem of political splinter groups advocating territorial secession, while Bangladesh must confront the economic problems of an emerging Third World nation...
Wilson, a stocky mixed-blood with close cropped hair, was familiar with AIM's tactics. In March 1972, AIM and 2000 supporters gathered in Gordon, Neb., to protest the violent death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. A splinter group headed to Wounded Knee, determined to use the historic site for a symbolic demonstration...
...scenes are sometimes sheer cardboard, sometimes compelling. Easy complaints about slickness, commerce and sentimentality, though, do not do justice to the great affection and knowledge that Crichton shows. His description of a starved, out-of-work miner treating himself to one golden, fabulously self-indulgent, perfectly boiled egg would splinter a heart...