Word: faction
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...white man and you recognize the divinely ordained differentiation between the races," he says, "you're accused of being a racist." The H.N.P, which received 14.1% of the vote in the 1981 national elections, is not represented in Parliament. Even further right is a small (estimated supporters: 5,000) faction that calls itself the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Resistance Movement). Members of the group have been convicted of terrorism for planning to blow up multiracial hotels and "eliminate" black antiapartheid activists...
...Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek made a secret deal with Stalin: Chiang let the Red Army escape in exchange for the Russians' release of the Generalissimo's son and eventual successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, held hostage in Moscow. Mao, meanwhile, solidified his power by luring a rival Red Army faction to its destruction and burying the survivors alive...
...Hong Kong's democratic movement is diverse and diffuse. The widespread feeling that the territory should be freer to run its own affairs is tempered by the reality that Hong Kong cannot survive without China's blessings. Discontent is often driven by short-term concerns, and the faction-riven Democratic Party seems incapable of playing the leadership role it should. "It's China that's become more open-minded and forward-looking," says Mandy Tam, a pro-democracy but independent legislator, "and the Democratic Party that's pushy...
...Hong Kong's democratic movement is diverse and diffuse. The widespread feeling that the territory should be freer to run its own affairs is tempered by the reality that Hong Kong cannot survive without China's blessings. Discontent is often driven by short-term concerns, and the faction-riven Democratic Party seems incapable of playing the leadership role it should. "It's China that's become more open-minded and forward-looking," says Mandy Tam, a pro-democracy but independent legislator, "and the Democratic Party that's pushy...
...PORTMAN is anticipating a range of responses to her spare new hairdo. "Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi," the Garden State star suspects, "or that I have cancer or I'm a lesbian." We would also like to warn her of a probable "Hey, Sinéad!" faction. You see, this isn't like Britney Spears going brunet. Portman, the exotically coiffed Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, allowed her petite pate to be shaved on camera in Berlin last week, a process she describes as "really exciting." The 23-year...