Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PUBLICLY, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN HAS REjected a proposal, backed by a faction within his Cabinet, that Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip before reaching an agreement with the Palestinians on arrangements for the West Bank. But a Palestinian leader has told TIME the plan is being discussed in secret talks between the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Such an agreement may run into a snag named YASSER ARAFAT. The P.L.O. chief favors the deal only if he gets to head the Palestinian administration that would replace Israeli authorities in the Strip...
...Executive Board's prerogative which is unprecedented in my four years on the council. The Executive Board is given the power to set the docket to ensure that resolutions can be considered in a timely fashion and that meetings are not overly long. In this case, a small faction of the council was improperly attempting to use that pozwer to dictate the council's political agenda...
...abolish totally the practice of abortion through legal and nonviolent means. Boot-camp volunteers were required to sign a pact of nonviolence before every demonstration. And lessons were not given, as far as reporters allowed to witness some of the classroom sessions could determine, in several of the antiabortion faction's most extreme tactics: torching abortion clinics and suffusing them with noxious chemicals...
...bank and a leasing company; he pays a pittance of $450 a month in interest to the leasing company, nothing to the bank. Hoshino resignedly says "the way things are can't be helped." But he does rail at politicians who "just work for their own political party or faction, and not for the entire country...
What then? Nobody knows. It seems unlikely, though, that the Liberal Democrats can carry on as an unquestioned force, solving all problems with backroom deals among faction leaders. Public revulsion has caused even party stalwarts to start talking about shaking up the corruption-breeding electoral system...