Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gaullist aides began to ponder ways to get him back into the legislature, where, if elected, he was likely to become majority leader. Trouble was, no Gaullist faction in France itself wanted him. But at last a constituency was found where Debre seemed unlikely to lose. Last week the former Premier gulped hard and accepted a bid to run for office on Reunion Island, a tiny French dot in the Indian Ocean nearly 6,000 miles from Paris...
Brandt's victory was no surprise, for West Berlin traditionally votes Socialist. What was startling was the size of the Socialist gain, and the sharp loss suffered by the West Berlin faction of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union. C.D.U. Deputy Mayor Franz Amrehn lost to a little-known Socialist, and overall C.D.U. strength in the Berlin House of Representatives dropped 25%. There were, of course, local issues, but no one doubted that the C.D.U. suffered from the tarnished image of Adenauer's national party, which has been slipping in local and state elections. Recent discontent...
...first nine months. Such financial turbulence made everyone fasten seat belts in KLM's executive suites. One group of entrenched, old-line KLM executives argued that despite the economic headwinds, the line should continue to expand and even resume its service to Indonesia. A more moderate faction, with which Van der Beugel apparently sympathized, favored cutting back. As KLM's situation worsened. Van der Beugel warned the Dutch government, which holds 71% of the line's stock, that KLM must either cut its operations in half or be guaranteed a substantial subsidy...
...chaos was symptomatic of the growing feeling in Bonn that Adenauer, at 86, has lost his leadership. In recent months, der Alte has become increasingly isolated, seldom appears in the Bundestag, or even at the caucus meetings of his C.D.U. parliamentary faction. Often at Cabinet meetings he stays for a short time, then hands affairs over to Vice Chancellor Erhard. Der Alte seems uninterested in details, no longer gets the steady stream of reports from the Foreign Ministry on every detail of West Germany's relations abroad which he once demanded. Being out of touch even with the moods...
Russia's retreat in Cuba and Red China's attack in India are dividing partisans of Moscow and Peking everywhere. A minority faction of "Chinese" and Stalinist sympathizers in the Belgian Communist Party supported the "rectitude of Castro's cause" and condemned the "imperialist aggression of Nehru." On the other hand, Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once a Stalinist but now a loyal Khru-shchevite, pointedly declined to take sides between India and China. Said he: "We don't know where the truth lies...