Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already Hammarskjold had approached India to supervise the disarming of the Congolese troops, and he hoped to win support for his plan from Ghana, Nigeria and other African nations. But would the squabbling faction leaders go along? Exploded General Mobutu: "We will never allow it. The U.N. is playing with fire...
With their party in disarray in the wake of the nationwide strikes that they instigated, Belgium's faction-torn Socialists last week sent for the one man with enough eminence to restore their battered prestige and give them a fighting chance in this spring's elections. He was NATO's Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak...
Died. Perry Wilbon Howard, 83, crafty Negro politician and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, who was the absentee ruler of the long-dormant state organization for more than 30 years while he ran a law firm in Washington, D.C.. and whose "Black and Tan" faction was ousted last year when a "Lily White" Republican delegation was seated at the Republican National Convention; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...problem that has Jack Kennedy seriously worried is the condition of the faction-ridden, scandal-tarred Democratic Party in Massachusetts. Last year the President-elect carried his home state with ease-while Republicans won the statehouse and kept their Senate seat. Convinced that things are likely to get worse before they get better, Jack Kennedy is now thinking of Brother Bobby as the man to take charge of the housecleaning, by eventually running for Governor rather than for Jack's old Senate seat...
...spoilers. With rising U.S. tension on the issue of civil rights, few appointive posts are more sensitive than those in the federal judiciary. That sensitivity was one of the factors in the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General. As a tough political negotiator beholden to no Democratic faction, he might be able to placate both House Judiciary Committee Chairman Celler, an all-out liberal, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland, an archsegregationist from Mississippi, in the filling of the new federal judgeships...