Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hafizullah Amin emerge "from nowhere." Long the No. 2 man in the Khalq faction of the Communist party, Amin was the key man in organizing the 1978 coup and immediately emerged as the strongman of the Taraki regime. These and other questionable assertions would not have escaped the attention of any high-ranking KGB officer specializing in the area. One is forced to wonder about Mr. Kuzichkin's motives in making these statements. Rosanne Klass, Director Afghanistan Information Center New York City
...clearly of the utmost importance that Afghanistan should have the right leader. The choice was between Karmal, who headed the Parcham faction in the Afghan Communist party, and [Noor Mohammed] Taraki, who headed the Khalq faction. We knew a lot about both men. In the papers we put to the Politburo, we scrupulously assessed their strengths and weaknesses. Our assessment made it clear that Taraki would be a disastrous choice. He was savage by temperament, had little feel for handling complex political issues, and would be easily influenced by his cronies, but not by us. Karmal, on the other hand...
...decision was particularly gratifying, Sullivan explained, because of the "adversity" the rent board had overcome in preparing its appeal. In February, the council's conservative Independent faction and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci denied City Manager Robert W. Healy funds to hire an outside attorney to file the appeal of Sherman's decision, despite the unified support of the four liberal Cambridge Civic Association councilors...
...YEAR AGO last may five American correspondents in Lebanon were abducted by a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and held for 24 hours. According several accounts, the newsmen were stripped and lined up against a wall as if to be executed. Them they were released on the condition their employers not reveal the episode. Only an accusatory finger pointed by the Israeli Press Office eight months later forced the American media to disclose the affair...
This pacifist faction within the church has drawn the ire of many conservative Catholic intellectuals (see box). "Some of the bishops are extremely cavalier," says Church Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "They seem to say there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have fallen into the habit of saying that a nuclear holocaust would be the greatest of all evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary...