Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the six remaining incumbents appear secure, nobody wants to predict who will occupy the other three seats, or which political faction will gain the upper hand...
...administration promises all 25,000 Commencement guests that this year's ceremonies would not be rained out, snow that SASC members had covertly prevented from falling all winter is unleashed upon the crowd. SASC said the chill in University attitudes toward divestment inspired this protest strategy, though a small faction of SASC members declines to participate due to the fact that all of the snow is white. Barbara Bush nevertheless gives an impassioned Commencement address about "A Thousand Point Spread" in the next Harvard-Yale Game, due to her husband's refusal to set foot in "that liberal boutique...
...member of Abu Nidal's P.L.O. faction is, in fact, already charged with a plane bombing. Greece is holding Mohammed Rashid on false passport charges while deciding whether to extradite him to the U.S., where he is wanted for the 1982 explosion aboard a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu. The pilot landed in Hawaii with 285 passengers, but a 16-year-old Japanese boy, seated close to the exploding bomb, was killed...
...Harris' opponents, including six bishops who head dioceses, are a small if troublesome faction. But elsewhere fully 20 of the 27 autonomous Anglican branches forbid women priests and will doubtless reject women bishops as well. The world leader of Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, has been forced willy-nilly to join the rejectionists in his role as Primate of the Church of England. Runcie declared last month that unless church law changes, neither he nor any other English hierarch may recognize a woman bishop or the priests she ordains. Communion between the English and American churches survives, Runcie stated...
Elsewhere Dignity is struggling to cope. A New York City chapter has been split over one faction's marches and disruption of Masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the tough new church line. Some chapters have found priests willing to celebrate Masses quietly in non-Catholic buildings, but often with dwindling attendance. Other chapters have disbanded. Nonetheless, 104 chapters remain, and nationwide membership is holding...