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Since the roof fell in last November, what the Republican Party needs least of all is splinters. But Goldwater's outfit is just one of many new G.O.P. splinter groups. Among the others...
...Republicans for Progress is at the liberal end of the splinter spectrum, aspires to election-year action and perennial idea production. It will assist individual candidates of whom it approves while generating programs it hopes to sell to the party as a whole. Its chairman is Charles P. Taft, brother of the late "Mr. Republican" and the most liberal of the Ohio Tafts...
...matter how legitimate their aims, the splinter groups can only add up to a headache for those trying to reunify the Republican Party. National Chairman Ray Bliss recently ordered his finance committee to withhold its contributor lists from splinter organizations. Then, after the Goldwater announcement, Bliss angrily spoke out on the touchy subject. "When you have side movements," he said, "they certainly aren't helpful. I believe we should be presenting a united front...
...lackluster Conservative government is partly to blame. Beyond that, there has long been widespread feeling against the Front's 1966 candidate-Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a longtime Liberal firebrand and a man with many enemies. This month, the Front's divisions exploded into the open when a splinter faction of Valencia's own Conservative Party and a dissident Liberal group joined with followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to form an anti-Front coalition. With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government legislation...
...Cross was, without doubt, the team Harvard faced all year. The had won 14 straight games season, and were fresh from a 6-2 over American International the before. They brought along their band of supporters, who lolled sun at Splinter Stadium and vociferously for their heroes. of the Holy Cross players had signed pro contracts, without play out the season...