Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zealots. Five days before her surprise appearance in court to face charges of making inflammatory statements, a crowd of 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Parliament building in Dhaka to bay for her blood. They branded her "an apostate appointed by imperial forces to vilify Islam." One particularly militant faction threatened to loose thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she was executed...
...unlikely to happen without a terrible fight. The chief reason: N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the board William Gibson, a South Carolina dentist who handpicked Chavis for the job. Gibson, according to an N.A.A.C.P. insider, "has stacked every important committee with his own supporters." In the past, his tightly controlled faction has fended off requests from other board members about the organization's finances, programs and directors. Critics have been branded as "traitors and Uncle Toms" by Gibson and Chavis. "I'd be very surprised if there were an emergency board meeting called over this issue," says an N.A.A.C.P. source who wants...
...March, four Deputies from the L.D.P.'s 64-member parliamentary bloc pulled out. Among them was Victor Kobelev, once second to Zhirinovsky in the party hierarchy. A fifth dissident was later expelled from the party and, just last month, six more members broke ranks to create their own faction...
...battle cry of "we men are oppressed echoes the louder, more vehement shriek of "we conservatives are persecuted at this liberal hell-hole." True, Harvard got a fairly mild dose of the dread Political Correctness; Harvard's administrators are, thankfully, too smart to go around censoring people still, one faction of conservative students managed to paint itself as battered, beaten-down, eternally voiceless. This powerless bunch later went on to found 57 new conservative organizations and take over the Republican Club...
...Syria has rejected a staged pullout, which Israel prefers in order to build trust gradually. Christopher left the Mideast without any tangible achievement to boast of. Late last week, in a move which may further imperil Mideast negotiations, Israeli commandos abducted the leader of a militant Shi'ite faction in Lebanon...