Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideas rather than influences. But just how fresh are the new winds swirling around the Diet? Are Hata and company born-again politicians destined to shape the post-cold war era? Or are they rats fleeing a sinking ship? Hata and all his colleagues were members of the Takeshita faction of the L.D.P., which was close to the center of all the corruption scandals in recent years...
What is more, the political engineer behind Hata's insurgency is Ichiro Ozawa, a tough backroom operator who was right-hand man to Shin Kanemaru, the Takeshita faction's Mr. Big until prosecutors caught up with him last March. Kanemaru stands trial next month on charges of failing to pay taxes on the millions he allegedly skimmed off illicit political donations. Largely because of Ozawa's close association with Kanemaru, the national daily Asahi Shimbun is less than impressed with the new group. "They attack the limitations of the L.D.P.," the paper noted last week. "But weren't they...
...power toward Aidid's enemies, rather than improved the chances for a political settlement. The peacekeepers inflicted more damage on Aidid than his opponents ever did, and they gleefully cheered the blue helmets on. The ferocity of the intervention may also have cast the U.N. as one more faction in the conflict...
...have more than one group affiliation they care about--so they won't end up fracturing into single autonomous groups with opposing interests. As long as a single religious group doesn't populate one economic stratum, for example, religion and class can't combine to create a single warring faction...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...