Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argument focused on electoral tactics as much as ideology. "It is in not being faithful to these [Socialist] values that we have suffered," declared Education Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of the party's left-wing faction. Rocard attacked the government and the party for attempting to push through educational reforms that would have extended state authority over private schools. After more than a million people protested in Paris this past fall, the Socialists scrapped the plan and settled for a series of piecemeal measures. "How could we have failed to see that the real challenge before...
Indeed, the dominant conservative faction finds the protracted pursuit of appeals wasteful and diversionary, and has encouraged the lower courts to process the backlog of death penalty cases swiftly. As those backed-up cases now come surging through the courts, however, many observers are concerned that the sheer numbers will cause judicial corners to be cut, and that convicts will go to the executioner having had imperfect legal representation. One of Stephens' main appeals arguments was rejected, for instance, because his lawyers filed the motions late...
...voters was the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, the remnant of the revolutionary New Jewel Movement, which seized power from Gairy in 1979. The M.B.P.M., headed by former Industrial Development Minister Kendrick Radix, was named after Maurice Bishop, the charismatic New Jewel founder who was assassinated by a hard-line faction of his leftist party six days before U.S. troops arrived on Grenada. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members for the murder of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers was stalled last week by procedural wrangling...
...Ethiopia's political divisions. The Eritrean Relief Association, an organization associated with separatist rebels in the country's northern province, has reportedly accused Ethiopia's Communist government of interfering with efforts to supply food to the region. In Tigre province, another rebel faction has been accused of preventing hungry people from going to government relief centers in the south...
...doesn't take an actuarial table to realize that the ideological balance of power in the Court is at stake. Of the nine justices five-Blackmun, Brennan Burger, Marshall and Powell-are 75 years or older and of these, everyone except Burger comes form the moderate and liberal faction of the court. Should the President get to make two appointments, a reasonable estimate, the Court's teeem drift to the right could become a stampede...