Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laos, where Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma has lately been trying to play the neutralist game, slipped ever closer to the precipice edge. To the south, an anti-Communist army faction led by General Phoumi Nosavan has been in obdurate though mostly nonviolent revolt against Prince Souvanna since last September. On a good will tour a fortnight ago. genial Prince Souvanna awakened one morning in the small northern village of Moung Sai, his head still dizzy from ceremonial quaffing of a strong rice spirit called choum, to learn that the royal capital, Luangprabang. had gone over to General Phoumi. Last week...
...Belgium and its desire to be of assistance in the Congo," huffed a State Department spokesman in Washington. "We therefore are unable to accept the implications to the contrary contained in various parts of the report." This week, when the General Assembly debated the resolution to decide which Congo faction should be seated in the U.N., other guns would open fire at the stolid Swede. Not the least of them would probably be the Soviet Union, which still longs to squeeze Hammarskjold out of his job entirely. And then there was the irate Joseph Kasavubu to be dealt with. Without...
Shamyl had a flare for such dramatics; his men regularly lobbed the heads of spies into Russian camps. And when one faction persuaded his mother to suggest the possibility of surrender, he disappeared into a mosque for three days, then announced: "It is Allah's will that the first person who spoke to me of submission should be punished by a hundred lashes! And this first person is my mother!" He flogged the old lady five times; then, glaring contemptuously at the tribesmen, accepted the rest of her punishment himself...
...asked Robert Francis Kennedy, the ubiquitous campaign manager for his brother Jack, couldn't the local Democratic faction get together behind the national campaign? Why weren't the volunteers working harder? What was wrong? Under Kennedy's crossexamination, Bob Conrad's temper suddenly snapped, and he jammed the accelerator in anger. "It's not as simple as that," he rasped. But before he could say much more, a Nebraska highway patrolman flashed him to a stop. Muttering his disgust, Conrad got out of the car to talk to the cop. Bobby Kennedy, his mind still...
...leaders of Communist North Viet Nam and later Mongolia were duly whipsawed into declaring their support for Khrushchev, and Seoul reported that North Korea's Kim II Sung, getting ready for Nikita's visit next month, had dutifully purged top leaders of the so-called Chinese faction from his government...