Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year Cuban military assistance enabled the Marxist guerrilla faction in Angola to win out in a three-way civil war. Last week it appeared likely that a band of soldiers, with the blessing of the Angolans and the Cubans, was on the brink of a sudden new victory in Zaïre (formerly the Congo). Their apparent aim: the republic's copper-mining region, one of the treasures of Africa...
...four years Chiang had endured an uneasy united front with the fledgling Communist Party (founded in 1921), but during his "reunification campaign, "he had broken with it, determined to destroy it. Weaker by far than the Nationalist Party, the Communist Party went underground in the cities while a small faction, led by the then little-known Mao Tse-tung, began a long effort to establish revolutionary bases in remote areas of the Chinese countryside. Meanwhile Chiang Ch'ing, a floundering actress, apprentice playwright and intellectually restless, went to the port city of Tsingtao and made contact with Communist Party...
Edwards' opposition to a 1965 resolution barring "Negroes and other civil rights agitators" from membership in the church where Jimmy Carter used to worship nearly cost the pastor his job last October. Last week he was ambushed by a faction that demanded he be fired. After several hours of bitter debate, Edwards agreed to leave his post April...
Covert CIA payments to other key individuals abroad have been commonplace. Among the recipients: the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam; President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly the Congo); Holden Roberto, head of a losing faction in the Angola civil war; and Eduardo Frei, former President of Chile. The Post also reported claims that money had gone to Archbishop Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Each man vehemently denied the charge...
...psychological event, if not as history, Roots surely transcends its mistakes. Haley called his saga "faction," and therefore it cannot be evaluated merely as history or merely as an entertainment. As either one of those, it fails. Yet as both, in resonance with the long, complex American experience on the subject, Roots is extremely powerful...