Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ortega's rise within Sandinista ranks was rapid. In 1963, after a brief stint studying law, he joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and by 1967, at the age of 22, he was already the head of the urban-resistance campaign. He helped found the Tercerista faction, or Third Party, within the divided Sandinista movement, which forged an alliance with the widespread middle-class opposition to Somoza. Mainly on the strength of that bond, the Sandinistas came to power. After serving as the first among equals in the party command and in the nine-man National Directorate...
More troubling, it was still unclear whether the assassination was politically motivated. Police remained skeptical of claims by the West German terror group the Red Army Faction that it was responsible. Attention instead focused on activists from the obscure Kurdish Workers' Party, a group of political exiles from Turkey who, last August, vowed vengeance against the Swedish government for labeling them "terrorists...
...proposal fails amid muffled sighs from the pro-accountability faction...
...DECADES, various indigenous factions fought to overthrow Portugese colonialism in Angola and Mozambique. In 1975, Portugal withdrew, and the elections which were supposed to forge a democratic consensus were precluded by civil war. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)--a Marxist group supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation...
...West Bank's only Arab mayor, after three years of military administration ended in the city four months ago. Both Israel and neighboring Jordan strongly condemned the murder, as did a spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, the P.L.O. faction known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting. In Paris, however, a telephone caller to a Western news agency claimed responsibility for the shadowy terrorist organization headed by the notorious Abu Nidal...