Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own to negotiate; when they agreed to the La Palma meeting, said Zamora, it was in recognition of "domestic pressure. We know that if we separate from the people, it means we lose the war." Even so, one important guerrilla commander, Joaquín Villalobos, head of a faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, was unable to attend. The reason: difficulties in traveling from his remote stronghold in the department of Moraz...
...upon, and we intend to defend ourselves," Churchill writes angrily to Hopkins. "I consider we have a right to the President's support... It grieves me very much to see signs of our drifting apart at the time when unity becomes even more important, as danger recedes and faction arises." Roosevelt suavely answers that he is "a loyal friend and ally," then cites "the mounting adverse reaction of public opinion," and urges that Churchill let "the people.. . express themselves...
...probe that culminated in last week's roundup originated nearly a decade ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into the activities of the New York Mafia "family" of Joseph Bonanno. The inquiry shed light on a faction headed by Salvatore Catalano, a Queens, N.Y., baker and entrepreneur who seemed to be doing more than selling pizza at his Al Dente pizza parlor. It gathered momentum when investigators obtained evidence that couriers for Catalano's group were transferring enormous amounts of cash through investment houses and banks in New York, Italy and Switzerland...
...similar rift has long prevailed within the inner councils of the Reagan Administration. The Administration's supply-siders, led by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, have consistently urged the President to oppose income tax hikes. Another faction, known as the "pragmatists" and led by Budget Director David Stockman, has counseled Reagan to keep open all options, including a tax increase. The pragmatists fear that the strength of the economy may convince the President that the supply-siders are right. Says one Administration official: "The President is going to be aw fully tempted to believe this fairy tale about the deficit...
...hard-line faction opposes any new arms-control measures on the ground that military competition is inherent in the superpower relationship, and the U.S. should not be fettered by arms-control agreements as it tries to match or surpass the Soviets. As one hard-liner put it early in Reagan's Administration, "Arms control is bad medicine; it is, ipsofacto, bad." Some of the arms-control opponents urged Reagan to use the meeting with Gromyko as a high-level gripe session to complain about a number of Soviet transgressions, prominently including alleged violations by Moscow of previous arms-control...