Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow Nilotic tribesmen of the north. Trouble is that a split recently began developing even in his own Uganda People's Congress, caused by a group of Bantu Cabinet ministers determined to resist control by the northerners. The split widened last month when the anti-Obote faction supported the charge in Parliament by an opposition party leader that the Prime Minister, two of his ministers, and the deputy army commander had illegally shared a $325,000 windfall that was captured from Simba rebels by Uganda troopers during the 1964-65 Congo rebellion. At first, Obote agreed...
Moro is a meek little law professor from the University of Bari, who never drives above 35 m.p.h. and maintains that he would only be caught dead in an airplane. But he possesses a virtue rare in Italy. He is a born listener. He patiently attended while the feuding faction leaders talked themselves out, then shyly pointed out to Scelba's fans that they were being used as Fanfani's tools. With that, the rightists withdrew Scelba's Cabinet candidacy, settled for two new lesser Cabinet posts. Fanfani was not consulted until everything else was set. Then...
Dividing Baby? Like King Solomon's legendary decision ordering the baby divided between the contending women, this would be no solution at all. The French faction would not think of accepting it without being guaranteed equal facilities-an item estimated to cost a minimum of $500 million. Even if this were miraculously arranged, the massive international prestige of Louvain would be maimed. Though both the Flemish-and French-speaking faculties of the university are equally eminent, most of the 2,000 foreign students (out of a total enrollment of 20,000) speak French rather than Flemish...
...half the House would be elected with the President, half in off-year elections. However, Katzenbach made clear that the Administration would not accept this solution, fearing that it might split each party in the House into two rump groups, one a "presidential" party, the other an "off-year" faction free to ignore its own "presidential banner and platform." Said he: "A cure, to be a cure, cannot be worse than the malady...
Helou seems far from finished. Next on his lengthy list are top men in the government ministries, the customs, the police and the military. He may even take on the faction-ridden, absentee-prone Parliament itself, whose members spend much of their time lobbying to place themselves or friends in key civil service slots. Remarked one member of Parliament last week, more (at this stage) in wonder than in rage: "The tame man we elected has turned into a tiger...