Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lisa is receptive to criticism and has no hard feelings against the PL faction. "The hospital workers are hostile to the PL people--not because they disagree with their goals, but the way they come across turns many workers off," she explained...
Ground zero is Boston and its environs, which Lelchuk turns into a combination Sodom and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution. His characters even faction off nicely into modern American equivalents of Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and Nihilists, with Lenny Pincus, a subway Trotsky from Brooklyn, hopelessly trying to keep two feet in all three camps...
Despite Thieu's tough stand-or more likely because of it-Saigon was quiet. No students or demonstrating veterans have taken to the streets. Even Thich Huyen Quang, the head of the militant An Quang Buddhist faction, offered a somewhat ambiguous endorsement of the settlement. "We hope that both winners and losers will put down their weapons," he said...
...already more contact between Protestant and Catholic politicians, even the extremists, than meets the eye. Among those advocating joint exploration of a "negotiated" independence from Britain is John Taylor, onetime Home Minister in the Stormont Cabinet. Taylor was the target of a machine-gun attack by an l.R.A. faction last year. Although still a hard-fisted Unionist, he has recently made discreet approaches to Northern republicans and now enjoys a vogue among Dublin editorialists. Still, the idea of independence, with its implication of British troop withdrawal, gets a frosty reception in London. "Not on." says Whitelaw, his pale blue eyes...
Already he has created a mellower mood among Democrats. Although identified with the conservative Texas faction, he has pledged not to try to repeal the reforms that have given greater clout to minorities, women and young people. He announced that he would fill nine of the committee's 25 at-large posts with blacks-not a matter of quotas, he insists, but recognition of the heavy black Democratic vote in November. He backed Oregon State Chairman Caroline Wilkins for vice chairman over the wives of prominent politicians. "I want a strong, visible woman," says Strauss, "not just somebody...