Word: faction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that helped topple the Somoza regime a year later. Partly because he was unhappy with the Sandinistas' growing dependence on Moscow, he quit as Vice Minister of Defense and in 1983 launched a guerrilla war against his former comrades. But he rejected CIA pressure to join the main contra faction and was finally forced to quit fighting...
...device that triggered the explosion precisely as Herrhausen's limousine passed by. Under the box was a piece of paper with the all too familiar star-shaped symbol superimposed on a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle: the trademark of West Germany's ultra-leftist urban terrorists, the Red Army Faction...
...several experts said they were skeptical of Western nations' commit- ment to keeping the faction from power...
...addition to the anti-apartheid leaders, a powerful right-wing faction is putting political pressure on the president. Seeing themselves as the rightful owners of South Africa, white traditionalists point to Black violence and argue that the majority cannot be trusted with equal political rights...
Wilder never faced a serious challenge for the gubernatorial nomination once he pressured State Attorney General Mary Sue Terry to defer her own ambitions until 1993. There was grumbling in the Robb faction of the state party, but once again, no one wanted to risk an open schism by trying to deprive Wilder of his moment on the mountaintop. There was no chance of a racially divisive primary, since Virginia Democrats, unlike those in other Southern states, nominate by convention. In a sense, Wilder was the beneficiary of old- fashioned back-room politics, just as Irish, Italian and Jewish candidates...