Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although member colleges have remained loyal, there is a faction of American students who frankly wish NSA had decided to fold instead. They feel that NSA is a failure as a national student union, and that its dissolution might be a step towards constructing a better...
Congressman Thomas B. Curtis (R. Mo.), leader of the voluntary army faction in Congress, last night delivered a corrosive attack on the commission's conclusions and procedures. "What is this star chamber business, holding meetings behind closed doors on an issue of such importance?" he asked...
...rank proposal carried about 70 per cent of the votes. Shenton points out that it actually fared better than that, since one faculty faction--dominated by mathematicians--abstained because they considered the proposal too weak. They wanted the faculty to denounce the war in Vietnam itself...
...clear what Columbia would have done with a proposal, such as Harvard's to attack 2-S. A condemnation of 2-S seems to lie somewhere between what Columbia approved and what the mathematicians' faction wanted to approve. When Hovde was asked about a 2-S proposal, he hesitated and then said he was not sure what Columbia would have decided if that had turned out to be its issue...
Army officers who supported P'eng in 1959 probably realize that their interests lie with the anti-Mao, expert faction. But they face a dilemma. They don't want to risk another defeat, especially in this case, when no one knows (or likes to think about) the fate of the losers. Yet, they are not eager to give substantial help to the reds...