Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faction of critics takes a baleful view. The University they contend, is in danger of becoming a high-level prep school--a place to be gotten through because of where its merit badges lead, not an experience to be savored for its own value and for what it contributes to a rich life. Wilbur J. Bender '27 clearly had this in mind when he wrote his final report as dean of admissions in 1961. "We may be attracting students," Bender said then, "who look on school as preparation for college, college as preparation for graduate school, and graduate school...
...reference to eruptions of racial strife, he added: "When men will seek political advantage by turning their eyes away from riots and violence, we can well understand why lawlessness grows even while we pass more laws . . . It is a responsibility of the national leadership, regardless of political gain, political faction or political popularity, to encourage every community in this nation to enforce the law, not let it be abused and ignored...
...solution pleased neither faction. Most of the regular Mississippians refused to sign their pledges, did not get seated. The Freedom Democrats scuffled around, spending most of their time shouting into ever-ready television mikes. Throughout the convention, civil rights demonstrators milled around outside the hall...
...Prime Minister Moro, who leads one of the most insignificant factions of the Christian Democratic Party -and is Prime Minister only because he represents the most inoffensive compromise between the others-got absolutely nowhere in his battle to control the whole party. Just the reverse. Because the Christian Democrats' factions are split by ambitions rather than ideology, several top party members are gunning for him. Among them: ex-Premier Armintore Fanfani, Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo, who heads the faction that includes President Antonio Segni...
Wooed back to the Congo, Tshombe claimed the allegiance of every major faction. Wheeling and dealing as if every card were a wild deuce, Tshombe seemed to hold a royal flush ranging from Kasai's rightist "King" Albert Kalonji through such "moderate" face cards as Army Boss Joseph Mobutu and Justice Minister Justin Bomboko to the Communist-backed National Lib eration Committee's Andre Lubaya. But the N.L.C. could still prove a joker in Tshombe's hand: Leftist Antoine Gizenga still languished in forced exile last week on an island at the mouth of the Congo River...