Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tanzania would withdraw half of its troops by the end of the month and the remainder before December. Binaisa is unsure about the loyalty of the new Ugandan army, which placed its first 5,700 troops on active duty last week, and is worried by reports that an armed faction loyal to former President Apolo Milton Obote -Nyerere's next-door neighbor in Dar es Salaam since he was ousted by Amin in a 1971 coup-was massing in the north. Thus Binaisa asked Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi for troops to replace the departing Tanzanians...
...always agreed with the faction of coaches who ahead of their time pointed out that 95 per cent of the battle was forcing young swimmers to believe in themselves and the training methods employed," Rose said. "Today's crop of top performers have an admirable devotion to training. I don't know if I could maintain a similar intensity if I had to do it all over again...
Tensions in Beirut rose at week's end when a parked automobile exploded near the passing car of Bashir Gemayel, military commander of the Christian Phalangists. Gemayel was not in his car; but the blast, apparently the work of a rival Christian faction, killed his two-year-old daughter and seven others...
...Wednesday morning Carter had slightly blurred the speech, disappointing the hawkish faction among his White House advisers, who feared that the Soviets would view it as mostly rhetoric. One of the President's aides took consolation in describing the speech as "forcefully ambiguous." Vance was also unhappy with the rhetoric, but for a different reason. According to a close associate, he was concerned that the language was too flamboyant, giving the impression that Carter was overreacting and raising the danger that he would not be able to deliver on his threat of repelling a Soviet assault in the Persian Gulf...
...disbanded.) Insofar as U.S. diplomats and intelligence experts focused on Afghanistan at all, they made two miscalculations. First, they believed that the Soviets' desire to preserve detente would restrain them in Afghanistan. Second, they had long since written off Babrak Karmal and his comrades in the pro-Soviet faction, whom the more independent Marxists ruling in Kabul had purged or driven into East European exile. Even in the early fall of last year, when an interagency intelligence report seriously raised the possibility that the Soviets might launch a full-scale "pacification" campaign in order to prevent Afghanistan from becoming...