Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most terrorists are not so maladroit. The Red Army Faction in Munich planted bombs at the U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg, killing three Americans, and boasts of another bombing in Frankfurt, which killed an American colonel. West German Autobahnen have been strung with roadblocks, and police searched for the remaining members of the bomb-slinging Bonnie und Clyde gang (TIME, June 12). So far, six have been caught. One was Gudrun Ensslin, 31, a minister's daughter and former student of German literature, who was captured in a Hamburg boutique after a saleswoman noticed a pistol stuffed into...
...sorts from Bombay's Cricket Club of India. The Indian members of the exclusive club were clean bowled recently to discover that Bhutto, who grew up in Bombay, still holds a life membership in the C.C.I. The club has scheduled a special meeting to resolve the situation. One faction wants to expel him: Bhutto in his prime may have been a rather good opening bat, but, dash it, did he not let the side down by declaring war on India? A smaller pro-Bhutto clique will argue for his continued membership. After all, if Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...points out that it was vigorous though often eccentric until World War I, and then trickled away. But if one listens carefully enough, he says, socialism is audible as an underground torrent. By the '30s, official Socialists as well as their Communist opponents were noisy but ineffectual and faction-ridden. Certainly Harrington is right to underline once more that the '30s were far more important for the growing power of labor unions within the Democratic Party. Union leaders have from time to time made demands on the welfare state much more audacious than anyone who has not carefully...
...matter bluntly: in some wars there is simply no substitute for failure. It is high time to face the long evident truth: that our South Vietnamese clients are the losing faction of a revolutionary civil war, could not have lasted the past decade without us, and today will not last a week without our constant bombardment of their adversaries and their own people. There may be way-stations, even fairly enduring ones, to the ultimate outcome of Communist domination in the South--for instance, a coalition government. But a cold calculation of Vietnamese interest, as well as ours, should persuade...
Party reform has brought more problems than the McGovern commission ever dreamed of when it laid down guidelines for the selection of delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Of the 478 delegates chosen to date, at least 220 are on slates that have been challenged by one aggrieved faction or another. The Democratic National Committee, which has the task of coping with the challenges, admits that it is bewildered. "I have this recurring dream," says Committee Official Robert Nelson. "It involves a small news story out of Miami describing the first lynching in the South in 40 years...