Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zeal, American gamblers have had to bow to only one faction: the reformers. Despite brief flurries of success, reformers have never got far. Jonathan F. Green, "The Reformed Gambler," sparked an antigambling drive in the 19th century and made more money on it than he had on gambling. He was so popular that he often put on three or four shows a night exposing gambling tricks. No one illustrated better what the reformers are up against than a North Carolina gambler named-naturally-Pittsburgh Phil. When the doctor told him that he had only 24 hours to live, Pittsburgh Phil...
...sides in the neotiations are unravelling each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed on. The latest Russian note indicates that Khrushchev is willing to be reasonable though unhurried...
Phrygia's hero-leader is dedicated, urbane and devout Mario Neroun, who carried his country to freedom and is now desperately trying to hold together its evenly divided factions. A footloose American historian. Wade Hendrix, finds himself deep in intrigue both of the political and the boudoir variety-Neroun has a lovely mistress named Poppy, who is a considerable trial to the dictator's Christian conscience. The characters represent every racial and religious faction-Yonarus, the fanatic chief of police who is also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging...
...past four years as the F.L.N.'s chief fund raiser and accountant. A World War II French army medical officer and former Deputy in the French Assembly, Francis is a close personal friend of rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, and a member of the F.L.N.'s moderate faction...
Despite Kenyatta's intransigence, the British still cling to the hope that Kenya's second biggest African party, the K.A.D.U., may yet be persuaded to participate in the new Kenya government. But the realistic prospect is that no African faction will dare oppose Kenyatta's wishes for long. The Africans who visited him last week insist that, contrary to earlier reports, Jomo is neither ill, feeble nor alcoholic. Recently, he produced a child by his young third wife, who shares his Lodwar cabin. Said Tom Mboya: "I can assure people who consider that his age has impaired...