Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Burundi, the minority Tutsi have always controlled the armed forces, while in Rwanda the majority had the weapons. After the assassination of two Presidents in 18 months, the current government is a shaky coalition of the two rival tribal groups. Moderates willing to compromise are dumped by their own faction, and, says a senior foreign-aid worker, "the country has been taken hostage by the hard-liners...
...officers in Colombia who have set up import-export companies as covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing his fundamentalist captors that he was a U.S. narcotics agent fighting evil drugs. ``You've got to be your own life-support system,'' says John F. Quinn, who once worked as a NOC officer in Tokyo collecting economic intelligence...
...years ago, a not clearly politicially correlated faction of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club broke off to form the Harvard Republican Action Committee. This vanguard party, this elite force, succeeded in doing very little whatsoever before being resubsumed in the original club...
...Prince of Wales often bears the brunt of his father's bluntness. It can hardly be pleasant to be called a "fat turd," and the Prince plots revenge. Unfortunately, he really is somewhat of a fat turd, powdered and bewigged. He allies himself with the Whig faction of government, but is really more interested in legitimating his secret marriage than in taking a political stance...
Though still in gestation, the party would have the potential to produce independent candidacies for offices at all levels in many states. The new gambit is a dramatic reversal of strategy. Two years ago, Perot overruled a faction in his following that sought to develop a party. Some activists left in frustration...