Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tight-lipped and haggard, Japan's Premier Takeo Miki waded into the TV glare to concede defeat. Acknowledging an "unprecedented crisis of the postwar years," Miki called on his faction-torn Liberal Democratic Party to "accept frankly the judgment of the people" and seek "reform and change." The L.D.P. has little choice. In an election upset with far-ranging implications, 57 million Japanese voters last week dealt the country's ruling party its worst drubbing since it was formed...
...more thorough analysis, however, suggests that this alternative was designed only for manipulation of the Freshmen. At first, a faction within the Council proposed that the "I don't know" response be regarded as a negative vote. The deviousness of the scheme is obvious: those without an opinion would in effect be casting a negative vote. Fortunately, the more conscientious members of the Council defeated this proposal...
...next morning martial law, which had been lifted with the promise of elections, was re-imposed. And thousands of students and young workers were arrested, dealing a tremendous blow to student anti-junta organizations. Within a week of the revolt, Papadopolous himself was overthrown by the most extreme, uncompromising faction of the fascist clique, headed by Brigadier General Dimitri Ioannides. The last and most repressive phase of the dictatorship began. The prisons and concentration camps were again full...
...fulminated against the Arabs and the Third World as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Democrat Moynihan won over softspoken, engaging Republican-Conservative James Buckley, who leaves the Senate after one competent but unremarkable term, by a solid 54%-46% majority. That was because the suicidal tendencies of the faction-ridden state Democratic Party were largely overcome, hostility from blacks diminished, and a shortage of money (for more than a month Moynihan was unable to air radio and TV commercials) proved not to be a major factor. Even though Moynihan banged his head and wrenched his neck when his small plane...
...slackening in the propaganda campaigns against the radical "big-four brigands." An editorial appearing in China's major papers, apparently giving the official version of October's "great purge," said that Mao had warned his wife and her chief allies two years ago against "forming a small faction" that would attempt, in violation of party unity, to seize power for itself. When Mao became critically ill, said the editorial, the radicals' "attacks on the party became more frantic and their attempts to usurp the position of the supreme leaders more hurried." Thus Hua's feat...