Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow and Peking. But last year, faced with lining up behind Moscow and signing the nuclear test-ban or following Peking in rejecting it, Ho reluctantly fell in with the Chinese-whereupon the Russians chopped off most of his aid. The decision made Ho's own pro-Chinese faction more aggressive...
Last week the district held its third recall election in three years to decide which faction had the majority to hire a superintendent it would find congenial...
...powerful Working Committee, which guides all government actions. Voluble and imperious, she has had little experience of statecraft, and is noted, in a Western diplomat's words, for "thinking with her heart." Her foes predicted disaster in 1959 when she was elected president of the flabby, faction-torn Congress Party. But in her whirlwind year on the job, Indira showed considerable political acumen...
Neither side won a clear-cut victory, but the keep-politics-out-of-RGA faction seemed to have a slight advantage as the war adjourned until next week's meeting...
...closed in 1962 as a protest against Laotian recognition of North Viet Nam. Neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma announced that he was pleased, but he had little else to smile about. In the endless fighting that goes on in the balled-up little country between its three ruling factions, the rightist forces last week accused the pro-Communist Pathet Lao of launching yet another attack. Talks were under way aimed at arranging a conference this week between the faction leaders, namely Souvanna Phouma, his half brother Pathet Lao Leader Prince Souphanouvong, and Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan. The object would...