Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Political power in the country is firmly in the hands of the hardline faction of the military, paramilitary and civilian elites. Among them there is near unanimous rejection of any reformist or moderating changes in regime composition or program...
...hard line majority within the military establishment has been pressuring to contain and even reverse the democratization process. It is with representatives of this faction that the agreements above were discussed...
...This headline faction favors counter-insurgency cooperation with El Salvador, tolerates and encourages National Guard exile groups hostile to Nicaragua to operate from Honduras, and believes it could win a military confrontation with Nicaragua...
...year. Understandably, he was not always thanked for his tightfistedness. However, Hurvitz had won many of his economic battles with his colleagues with almost regular use of his most lethal political weapon: a credible threat to resign and take his tiny, three-man Rafi faction into opposition, which in turn could bring down the government...
...during the Cultural Revolution. "They were afraid I'd start shouting, 'Kill the bitch! Kill the bitch!' " Others grumbled that the case was a classic show trial whose purpose was only to give an appearance of legality to the vengeful elimination of the once powerful radical faction. "There's not much sympathy for Jiang Qing," said one writer, "but to have done things really fairly, the whole Central Committee would have had to go on trial, since it approved of the Cultural Revolution. The worst criminal," he added in a whisper...