Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done for two reasons: a desire to broaden the organization's base by remaining decentralized and the desire to avoid the possibility that a central power structure might direct NAM in undemocratic ways. People remembered the SDS experience, when at times the national office would war with various factions by controlling the SDS newspaper, New Left Notes, and by scheduling conferences and conventions in locations where a preferred faction would be likely to predominate...
...subsidiary and a former senior vice president of American Airlines. He will take over many of Pan Am's day-to-day operations from Chairman Najeeb Halaby, but Halaby retains the title of chief executive. Thus, at least temporarily, "Jeeb" Halaby won a double victory over a board faction that reportedly had lost faith in his ability to lift Pan Am. Halaby not only retained primary authority but, to the disappointment of four group vice presidents whom Halaby had named last June, he also won approval of his own outside candidate for the presidency...
...gone off just two days earlier in the 39-story Post Office Tower, London's tallest building. The blast caused no injuries but sent glass and masonry crashing almost 500 feet to the street. A telephone caller claimed that the explosion had been set off by a London faction of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A. leaders in Dublin denied responsibility) and that "the next one will be the Victoria Tower [of Parliament...
Majority strength by either faction on the council will determine the election of a new mayor, chosen by council members from among themselves. Barbara Ackermann, a CCA incumbent reelected to the Council last Tuesday, is expected to replace current mayor Albert A. Vellucci, unless a successful Russell recount reverses the present CCA majority...
...official, but he showed an early talent for firebrand politics?first as a student leader in Tientsin, later as a Communist organizer in France. When he joined the Chinese Communist Party, it was in the hands of educated urban intellectuals like himself. By the time an earthier, peasant-based faction, led by Mao Tse-tung, made its bid for dominance during the Long March in 1935, Chou was already in a pivotal position of power. In the crucial vote Chou swung his support to Mao, and he has backed the winning horses ever since...