Word: faction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treatment of Carter, as it turned out, was much friendlier than that accorded Begin. Obstreperous deputies subjected the Premier to such prolonged heckling that at one time the Speaker had to plead: "Please, only one heckler at a time." Some hard-lining members of Begin's own Likud faction accused him of abandoning Israel's claims to the West Bank, while Communists shouted that the government was suppressing the Palestinians...
Lisle Baker, a professor of law at the Suffolk University Law School, led the faction opposing deregulation and said it could only lead to neglect of outlying communitues, discriminatory pricing and decreased efficiency in the industry due to fragmentation and route duplication...
...adversely affect any U.S. presence for many years to come. Says a State Department official recently returned from Tehran: "There is no question that a military takeover would be most dangerous for U.S. interests. It would blow away the moderates and invite the majority to unite behind a radical faction...
...election on Feb. 7. His nomination settles, for the moment at least, a division within the Revolutionary Council. As Boumedienne lay dying, Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui began lining up support by asserting that he would be a rigid guardian of Boumedienne's highly centralized, Islamic, socialist policies. Another faction coalesced behind Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a cosmopolitan diplomat who is said to favor strengthening the economy and improving ties with the West...
While Teng's supporters were being confirmed as Politburo members, the Communist Party Central Committee announced that the long and often bitter purge of the Gang of Four, Peking's disgraced radical faction, had "in the main been completed victoriously." From now on, said the announcement, the stress will no longer be on the criticism campaign but on rapid economic growth...