Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation can also anticipate that in a Reagan presidency the Moral Majority faction will play a role in high level policy making. "I think he's promised it to them and he owes it to them," she says...
...Reagan's advisers, Robert Tucker, a foreign policy specialist at Johns Hopkins University, sketched in Commentary in 1975 a hypothetical U.S. strategy for seizing the Arab oilfields. On the other side of the Persian Gulf, Iran's leaders are divided. President Abolhassan Banisadr's faction considers Carter preferable to Reagan, but Banisadr's clerical rivals contend that "both are tools of imperialism...
DIED. Luigi Longo, 80, secretary general of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972 and a leader of the hardline, Moscow-trained faction of Italian Communism; of a heart attack; near Rome. The son of peasants, Longo won a Bronze Star from the U.S. for his activities with the Italian underground during World...
...Soviets seem to want to stay neutral, and all the evidence so far was that they were. But the U.S.S.R. could profit handsomely from a long war by gaining new influence over Iran as well as Iraq. A badly beaten Iran might dissolve into chaos, allowing a left-wing faction to gain control in Tehran. The Soviets could offer to guarantee Iran's security. Or they might pose as mediators and win a major role at a peace conference called to end the war Says one well-informed analyst: "If the Soviet Union can worm...
...speech in Tuscumbia, which, anyway, was not the birthplace of the racist organization. Earlier, addressing a white audience in Mississippi, Reagan had spoken of "states' rights," a longtime code word for opposition to desegregation. He also had received, and quickly renounced, an unsolicited endorsement from one faction of the Klan...