Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face an increasingly reactionary white population there. Last month's nationwide election showed a large split in the ranks of Botha's controlling national party with only a small per cent defecting for the Progressive, and almost one third of all Afrikaaners supporting the Herligte National Party, a reactionary splinter group willing to allow no concessions for the nation's Blacks. The whites, perhaps with due cause, fear that their survival as Afrikaaners is at stake, and claim any concerted effort at reform can only lead to their entire system unravelling...
Voters deserted the plethora of small, frequently eccentric parties (31 in all contested the election) that usually garnered 40 or more seats in the Knesset and thus provided a sizable swing vote on crucial legislation. This time the splinter parties got only 24 seats as voters rallied to either Labor or Likud. In the final analysis, though, it was Labor that demonstrated the most significant gains. The party managed to overcome deep divisions of its own to maintain its following among the secular-minded professional and urban population, and showed impressive strength (up to 30% in some places) among Israel...
...forces. On the other flank, if the Communists did well, they could force their way into a coalition government and impose their radical demands on the Socialists. Mitterrand's only hope for stable government lay in a Socialist majority or in a strong enough plurality to rule with leftist splinter parties...
...troubles; they went on a sympathetic rampage for more than six hours. They were finally forced back into their cells by police and guards using tear gas, but not before 18 inmates were injured in clashes with each other. One had an ear cut off, another survived a wooden splinter driven into his skull, yet another was bound and gang-raped...
...country's steep excise and import taxes on autos, color television sets, washing machines and other consumer products. While polls in January predicted an absolute Labor majority in the 120-seat Knesset, they now show Labor with only 45 seats, Begin's Likud with 33 and various splinter groups with 42. The new polls undoubtedly give Begin more confidence as he faces such unexpected bombshells as the tart revelations of his onetime Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman. Excerpts from a Weizman memoir, read avidly in Israel last week, are sharply critical of Begin and his leadership following the Camp...