Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking back, it now seems clear that the report was in trouble from the beginning. It was unanimous only because a "conservative" faction that had been committed to a program essentially like the existing one gave up and signed a report that was to some extent a compromise...
...writes Morgenthau, has thrown the Soviet Union into "despair, alarm and exasperation, most keenly felt by those identified with a policy of peaceful coexistence with the U.S. They declare themselves to be fighting with their backs to the wall, barely holding their own against the growing influence of the faction that favors the hard line of Chinese." The Soviet Union cannot be expected to sit back and accept the destruction of North Viet Nam, Morgenthau argues. "Every target hit weakens not the resolution of Hanoi to unify Viet Nam under its auspices but the resolution of the Soviet Union...
Nascent Nationalism. At first, Sofia tried to make it appear that the plotters were members of a pro-Peking faction working against Bulgaria's Russian protectors. They even planted a story that General Anev had fled to sanctuary in Albania, Red China's nearby ally. But it was not that simple. Anev was actually captured in his native village near the Yugoslav border, in a region long noted for its opposition to foreign invaders-Russian or otherwise. There, 20 years ago, he and Todorov-Gorunya had led an anti-Nazi guerrilla group...
...toppled Leftist João Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came from none other than...
Progressive Labor is widely known as the Chinese faction of the Communist Party of America, which has now set up an independent organization. This is not accurate, according to Maher...