Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost from the day of the Congo's independence in 1960, the Russians and their satellites worked doggedly to destroy what little stability the country had in hopes of getting a Communist faction in control. Expelled en masse after the demise of erratic Patrice Lu mumba, the Reds began filtering back into Leopoldville last year, notably to the towering eight-story apartment building that is both embassy and residence for Soviet Ambassador Sergei Nemchina and his 100-man staff of operatives. Two of Nemchina's most important aides, his slim, fair embassy counselor Boris Voronin and stocky, bushy...
...slavery Democrats distrusted their own people quite as much as they distrusted the North and the Republicans. Their weakness, not necessity, substituted opportunism for honest appeals for patience and unity. "Speaking for local effect" thus tainted both the moderation and the integrity of the Davis faction...
...party existed in embryonic form from 1936 to 1944 as a right-wing faction, in the American Labor Party, then the main third party in the State. When the Communists won control of the ALP in 1944, this faction, led by academics like John L. Childs of Columbia and old socialists like David Dubinsky of the ILGWU and Alex Rose of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers, walked out. The new Liberal Party polled 320,000 votes for President Roosevelt in the 1944 elections...
...Iraq, the struggle was between burly Vice Premier Ali Saleh Saadi, a radical, and a faction of moderates headed by Foreign Minister Talib Shabib and Interior Minister Hazim Jawad. Saadi and his friends want more or less instant socialization of the Iraqi economy, crackdown on the middle class, revolution throughout the Arab world, and an anti-Western policy. Shabib, Jawad & Co. favor a slower, more conciliatory course...
...Indira. Another subject they thought about, one that has almost become a national obsession, is the successor to Jawaharlal Nehru, 74. India today is still smarting from the savage beating it took at the hands of Red China last fall, the economy is faltering under bureaucratic controls, and the faction-riven government is flawed with corruption. Restive politicians say bluntly that all their problems cannot be solved by the stooped, careworn Prime Minister and the elderly, out-of-touch Congress Party leadership...