Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorists identified themselves as "the Eagles of the Palestine Revolution." That sounded like yet another unknown guerrilla splinter group, but Middle East sources reported that the kidnapers were almost certainly members of the extremist Black September movement. At the airport, the terrorists demanded that Austrian officials produce a passenger plane to carry the remaining Jewish hostages - two men and a woman - to an unspecified destination in the Arab world. But Austrian officials, after consulting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, closed the airport and stubbornly refused to let the kidnapers and their hostages leave...
...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...