Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trenches of World War I. Radicals praised Dos Passos as the greatest American novelist of the age for his naturalistic writing and attention to social evils. James Burnham, an aristocratic graduate of Princeton, was a coldly analytical dialectician who became a leader of the party's Trotskyist faction...
...more days, they were reinhabited by Algerian squatters who later received official squatters rights. A period of near anarchy ensued when hundreds of refugees stormed the cities and begged for food in the streets. A crime wave swept the country, stimulated by a fanatical right-wing faction of the French army that distinguished itself by opening fire on as many unsuspecting groups of people as possible. In the country, peasants began seizing land that the French "colons" had abandoned, and within the FLN there were debilitating power struggles, particularly between members of the intellectual elite and the less well-educated...
Fifty-two of the approximately 70 workers involved voted yesterday morning, and the pro-strike faction prevailed...
...outsider," he says. "I plead guilty. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans are also outsiders. We are not going to get changes by simply shifting around the same groups of insiders, the same tired old rhetoric, the same unkept promises and the same divisive appeals to one party, one faction, one section of the country, one race or religion or one interest group. The insiders have had their chances and they have not delivered. Their time...
...other hand, has apparently had his wings clipped once again. The brash, unrepentant politician promised the nation a full answer to questions about his financial dealings when he resigned in 1974, but no explanation has ever come forth. He is still rich, head of his party's biggest faction, and a major architect of Liberal Democratic strategy. But the Lockheed affair is a vivid reminder of the cloud of suspicion that still surrounds Tanaka...