Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born son of a general, Karmal has been a Marxist ever since his days as a student at Kabul University; his graduation was delayed by a stint in prison for left-wing agitation. His Parcham Party always leaned more dependably toward Moscow than Taraki's more broadly based faction, which sometimes espoused a Maoist-flavored brand of Marxism. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Neumann: "Karmal is the original Communist, a dyed-in-the-wool article...
...move that not many would have predicted only a few months earlier. Just 21/2 years ago, the 62-year-old daughter of India's revered first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was roundly turned out as Prime Minister, and even as an M.P., when an angry electorate swept her faction of the Congress Party from office in disgrace in the 1977 elections...
...election that made Gandhi's re-emergence possible has come about as the result of a tangled political crisis that began last summer, when India's ruling Janata Party split in two. The leader of the breakaway Lok Dal faction, Charan Singh, was named Prime Minister of a shaky coalition government. But when Gandhi withdrew her party's support, parliament had to be dissolved. With Singh remaining in office temporarily as caretaker Prime Minister, a new general election was called 21/2 years ahead of schedule...
...country's 361 million registered voters prepared to go to the polls on Jan. 3 and 6, pre-election pundits were betting that neither Gandhi's faction of the Congress Party nor Ram's shattered Janata Party would win a clear majority in parliament. Analysts estimated that out of the 528 parliamentary seats, the two parties could each win about 200 seats, while Lok Dal might capture about 60. In that case, Gandhi and Ram would have to scramble for new adherents among the smaller political parties to see which one might be able to form...
...townsman alike to form "leagues" to advance their common purposes. Armorers did a brisk business in swords, helmets and arquebuses, forerunners of the musket. In February 1579 the drapers of Romans paraded with weapons and elected a burly colleague, Paumier, as their festival chief. He also became the factional leader of angry craftsmen, tradesmen and plowmen. Soon there were two governments in Romans: Paumier and his followers had seized control of the city gates, a vital link to leaguers in the countryside. By the latter part of 1579, butchers and bakers were defiantly withholding taxes. Daringly and, as it turned...