Word: faction
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...back, and it has a whole new set of rules. Students for a Democratic Society was once a successful New Left organization in the 1960s until it turned radical. During a 1968 strike at Columbia University, bands of SDSers took the Dean of Students hostage, and another faction later developed into the Weathermen, a militant underground group best remembered for their penchant for bombs...
...glow of electoral success, beneath the surface the opposition is deeply divided on a number of issues, none more so than Iraq and the role of the military. Though most of the party's newer representatives in the Upper House side with Ozawa on Iraq, there's a hawkish faction within the DPJ that supports military action abroad. Should Ozawa push too hard, he could see his fragile party fall apart. At the same time, the DPJ needs to prove to a still skeptical Japanese public that it's capable of governing, not just opposing. Playing politics with the nation...
...leaders on the world stage face as many grave crises as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. So perhaps it's no surprise that Maliki has maintained his stony public image amid Iraq's latest political calamity, a withdrawal from the government by the main Sunni faction, the Iraqi Accordance Front...
...move by the Sunni bloc, known in Arabic as Tawafiq, leaves 12 empty seats in Maliki's cabinet, which is supposed to have 37 members. Six ministers tendered their resignation last week after Maliki failed to take any visible steps to address the faction's longstanding concerns, which revolve mainly around the fate of Sunni detainees held by the government and a lack of services in Sunni areas of the country. In the spring, six other ministers loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr abandoned Maliki's government in protest over the Prime Minister's refusal to take a stronger stance against...
Even members of other Shi'ite parties that form the dominant block in parliament routinely complain that they are shut out by the Prime Minister and his coterie. A faction of his own Dawa Party, led by his predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari, has begun quietly to seek a new Shi'ite-Kurdish alliance that would eject Maliki. And another former prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is trying to cobble together a secular-Sunni alliance that would put Allawi back...