Word: faction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permitted by the Palestinians to enter the city itself, spoke bitterly about what they called "the lies" being spread about them. Clearly, the French paratroopers have been stunned by the serious wounding of their commander, Colonel Jean-Germain Salvan, in a fight with a Palestinian faction earlier this month. He may be able to walk again in a year's time, but he will never again jump out of a plane...
...brigatisti apparently have some links to terrorist organizations in other countries, such as West Germany's Red Army Faction and various Palestinian groups. There is even some speculation that they have a Czech connection, although the evidence-like the Czech-made pistol used in Moro's killing-remains tenuous at best. But Italian officials are convinced that there is an important difference between the Red Brigades and say, the West German terrorists who operate in virtual isolation. The Red Brigades enjoy considerable support from left-wing organizations in Italy, which, at a time of lingering 7.4% unemployment (nearly...
Schwaighofer's faction has announced a boycott, which could deprive the play of skilled personnel. Both sides fear a decline in attendance, which totaled 530,000 in 1970. The traditionalists argue that the 1750 version is too highbrow and stylized. Schwaighofer's group, however, is concerned that Jews may organize an international boycott and other protests when the show goes...
...regime would be the Prime Minister, Noor Mohammed Taraki, 61. He is a soft-spoken novelist and journalist who was once (1952-53) an attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington. More recently, as leader of the 15,000-member Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail when the coup erupted two weeks ago, and one reason that...
...Aslam was designated Communications Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister. The remaining appointees were civilians, among them Hafisullah Amin, a onetime Columbia University student, who was named Foreign Minister, and Amahita Pratebsad, who as Director of Social Welfare becomes Afghanistan's first woman minister. To broaden the new faction's base outside Kabul, a National Revolutionary Council was formed. Taraki will be chairman of the council; the deputy chairman will be Babrak Kamal, a general's son reputed to be the most hard-line Moscow Communist in the Khalq Party...