Word: wings
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...officials charged that FAC is not a centrist group and is funded by corporate foundations which give money to right-wing organizations...
...Brown has become a major source of Whitewater information for reporters and, he says, congressional investigators. His group's membership has boomed under Clinton, Brown contends. Last summer, he started a monthly newsletter called ClintonWatch (annual subscription: $29), which contains items ranging from Whitewater rumors and innuendo to right-wing critiques of Clinton's agenda. In his quest for damaging material, Brown has spent hours in Little Rock cultivating Clinton enemies and other sources...
Before Berlusconi's entry, a left-wing coalition led by the Democratic Party of the Left seemed poised to fill the breach. But the left's sweeping victory in municipal elections last December galvanized the media magnate to run for office -- a decision he attributed to "love of my country" and a desire to prevent it from falling under the sway of former communists (some of whom had pledged to break up the media monopoly that provided up to a quarter of his revenues...
...fractious right-wing coalition won Italy's national parliamentary elections. Led by billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Freedom Alliance won a strong majority of 366 seats in Parliament's lower house and a plurality of 155 seats in the Senate. Included in the victorious coalition is the neo-Fascist National Alliance, whose leaders still revere the memory of the dictator Benito Mussolini...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron. A "temporary international presence" made up of 160 observers from Norway, Denmark and Italy will enter the Hebron area by mid-April. Earlier in the week in Gaza, Israeli undercover agents disguised as Palestinians killed six members of the Fatah wing of the P.L.O. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres called the killings "very regrettable...