Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held late this past summer in St. Louis revealed symptoms of a deep schizophrenia in the participants. The factions which aired their differences have been privately at odds for a long time, but now their differences have escalated into the same kind of civil war on the Right that split the radical Students for a Democratic Society during the same summer. Nowhere is this Y. A. F. split-a valid reflection of the internal contradiction throughout the American right-wing-more manifest than in Southern California...
...California governorship. In recent months, his political ambitions have been dealt two setbacks. First, Look magazine charged that he was involved with Mafia characters, an allegation to which the mayor responded with a $12.5 million libel suit (TIME, Sept. 19, 1969). Now, newspaper exposes report that Alioto apparently split legal fees with the then attorney general of Washington State...
Though Attorney General John Mitchell ruled last summer that the Philadelphia Plan's "goals" did not amount to illegal job quotas, Comptroller General Elmer Staats issued a contrary opinion. Taking advantage of that split, the Senate two weeks ago added to an appropriations bill an amendment that would forbid the Government to make payments on any contract the Comptroller General holds to be against...