Word: factionalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet demands that he pack the Central Committee with conservatives, Dubcek rallied support for his progressives at grass-roots meetings. The press was still free enough to help, pinpointing and decrying meetings of "factionalist" conservatives, thus enabling Dubcek to counter their bid for popular support...
...look again. Stationed strategically between them was Host Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and his head kept swiveling as if he were following a slow-motion tennis volley. For nearly three hours the Rumanian President alternated his attentions like clockwork-15 minutes to Revisionist Mikoyan, 15 minutes to Factionalist Li-while his two honored guests pointedly ignored each other. Nothing, not even the considerable efforts of the host's raven haired daughter Lica, who is a Communist movie queen, could make them even look at each other...
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