Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not necessarily spell her downfall. The Congress Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief, Lawrence Malkin, the call for a quick election may have been a blessing in disguise...
...starchy informality and faint condescension. But this impression of haughtiness compares favorably with the shrill, uproarious melodramatics of The Red Menace, an anti-Communist crime buster included to illustrate the degree of frenzy that gripped Hollywood. Hollywood on Trial contains no revelations and no tough questions addressed to any faction. It does keep a decent, compassionate political equilibrium, and is to be admired accordingly...
...Radical Faction. Hua pronounced China's domestic situation generally "excellent," but his message was a blunt declaration of war against both popular unrest in the provinces and the so-called radical faction in the Communist Party, which lost out in the struggle for power after Mao's death in September...
...year of the worst political wrangling in Japan's modern history. In fact the L.D.P. emerged so battered that Fukuda last week vowed to "rebuild the party from scratch, and [I] will stake my political life on accomplishing it." The leader of the L.D.P's largest faction, whose intellect had won him plum jobs in the Ministry of Finance before he turned to politics in 1952, has probably done exactly that. But as a man with a reputation for tenacity as well as ambition, Fukuda, a longtime power broker in the party, has always felt that...
...smooth transition of power from Miki to Fukuda was greeted by L.D.P. leaders and their powerful business allies with a collective sigh of relief. Until last week there were fears that Miki would oppose Fukuda's candidacy and possibly lead his 42-man faction out of the party. But Miki quit without a fight when it became apparent that the party was united against...