Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also in February, a group of Young Democrats was organized at the University of Mississippi. It is around this contigent that the present MDC-backed faction is built. Cleveland Donald, a Negro from the integrated YDs at Ole Miss, and Hodding Carter III, on leave from the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat Times and presently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, are the cochairmen of the moderate delegation to the New York convention...
...motion was made to censure Frazier for his conduct during the morning and to remove him as chairman of the convention. Hodding Carter then stood up and asked all "true" YDs to follow him downstairs to a "true Young Democratic state convention." He, Cleveland Donald, and the MDC faction, in all about a third of the group, walked...
...Premier George Athanassiadis-Novas did not doubt that Papandreou was popular with the voters. More pertinent at the moment was the old man's strength in Parliament. Novas' regime had won over at least 20 of Papandreou's 171 members of the Center Union faction in the legislature, leaving Papandreou with something less than a clear majority. It was also well known that a great many Center Union rank-and-filers had become disenchanted with Papandreou's particular brand of despotism in party affairs...
...lackluster Conservative government is partly to blame. Beyond that, there has long been widespread feeling against the Front's 1966 candidate-Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a longtime Liberal firebrand and a man with many enemies. This month, the Front's divisions exploded into the open when a splinter faction of Valencia's own Conservative Party and a dissident Liberal group joined with followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to form an anti-Front coalition. With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government legislation...
...group turned out to be smaller than expected. Ford says he thought "that you'd find a large group that would say that General Education was too much of a strain on the departments to be worth-while," but few speakers in the debates took that view). A "libertarian" faction composed yet another minority that wanted relative freedom for students to pick what courses they wanted...