Word: factionalism
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Mexico's durable one-party system emerged from the fratricidal Revolution of 1910, which toppled the 34-year rule of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. In the ensuing ten years, more than 1 million Mexicans died as one faction after another tried to wrest control of the country. Finally, to put an end to the bloodletting, outgoing President Plutarco Elias Calles founded what later became the P.R.I, as a coalition of military leaders, landholders and workers dedicated to the reforms called for in a constitution that had been drawn up in 1917 but was never respected. The party promised economic equality...
...Hafizullah Amin emerge "from nowhere." Long the No. 2 man in the Khalq faction of the Communist party, Amin was the key man in organizing the 1978 coup and immediately emerged as the strongman of the Taraki regime. These and other questionable assertions would not have escaped the attention of any high-ranking KGB officer specializing in the area. One is forced to wonder about Mr. Kuzichkin's motives in making these statements. Rosanne Klass, Director Afghanistan Information Center New York City
...Israeli government-sponsored news conference in Jerusalem last week, the head of one Lebanese Christian faction, Etienne Saqa, refused to say whether his group had participated in the massacre, but insisted to reporters: "We have the full right to deal with our enemies in Lebanon in the manner we find suitable...
...clearly of the utmost importance that Afghanistan should have the right leader. The choice was between Karmal, who headed the Parcham faction in the Afghan Communist party, and [Noor Mohammed] Taraki, who headed the Khalq faction. We knew a lot about both men. In the papers we put to the Politburo, we scrupulously assessed their strengths and weaknesses. Our assessment made it clear that Taraki would be a disastrous choice. He was savage by temperament, had little feel for handling complex political issues, and would be easily influenced by his cronies, but not by us. Karmal, on the other hand...
...decision was particularly gratifying, Sullivan explained, because of the "adversity" the rent board had overcome in preparing its appeal. In February, the council's conservative Independent faction and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci denied City Manager Robert W. Healy funds to hire an outside attorney to file the appeal of Sherman's decision, despite the unified support of the four liberal Cambridge Civic Association councilors...