Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still to early to tell whether the recent efforts by students to organize themselves will succeed or, if they fail, what positions the inevitable factions will take. Two rival camps are slowly emerging, however. One camp is led by Heberto Castillo, an engineering professor at UNAM who organized the teacher faction which supported the students in 1968, and by Cervantes Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most charismatic student leaders. Castillo and other long experienced radicals spent two years in jail after the 1968 movement. While in Lecumberri prison (the same prison where Hyland is now staying) they greatly influenced...
...tractor trailer was forced to hit the brakes when a vehicle in front of him abruptly slowed. The tractor trailer jackknifed, knocking a minibus loaded with Vietnamese veterans off the highway. The bus was the last vehicle in the funeral cortege of the leader of an antigovernment veterans' faction, who had been killed by a gunman in Danang. Eight of the veterans were injured, three seriously...
...hard-line faction within the Nixon Administration is arguing for retaliation to show that the U.S. is not "soft" on takeovers. Under the 1962 Hickenlooper Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, the President is required to suspend U.S. foreign aid to countries that expropriate American holdings without compensation. Nixon once threatened to use the amendment against Peru after it seized a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, but he has never carried out his threat. Some State Department careerists argue that the U.S. should definitely not get tough now because retaliation against a developing nation would drive its leadership...
Many of the demands that emerged in the Attica rebellion were first raised in July in a tough "manifesto" sent to Oswald and Rockefeller by a group of inmates called "the Attica Liberation Faction." The paper labeled Attica a "classic institution of authoritative inhumanity upon men," but added: "We are trying to do this in a democratic fashion. We feel there is no need to dramatize our demands...
Ever since a militant faction of the Irish Republican Army stepped up its terrorism in Northern Ireland early this summer, a broad-scale Protestant backlash has been building in the British province. Earlier this month, 1,000 former B Specials, the Protestant police auxiliary disbanded on British orders two years ago, met to urge that the group be reorganized and rearmed. A few days later, 20,000 Belfast workers roared their approval of right-wing demands for a Protestant "third force...