Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal roll call, a majority of members on the House floor opposed the SST, but Ford had persuaded six Republicans to vote "present" instead of "no." That made the difference. "They used every trick imaginable," said Massachusetts' Silvio Conte, the G.O.P. leader of the anti-SST faction. "They twisted arms! What's changed since March? Nothing! Nothing...
...appease this hard-line faction, and to hedge against unsuccessful peace talks, that Sadat last week made a gesture toward militant Arab unity; at a Benghazi meeting, he decided to form a new Union of Arab Republics composed of Egypt, Libya and Syria. The members will be pledged to joint defense and will also have the right to intervene in the affairs of the other states to prevent a coup d'etat. The three nations and their 42 million people are ultimately supposed to have one President, one flag, one military command and, of course, one enemy: Israel...
...Duvalier declared himself President for Life. He held on to power by playing off one faction against another. With terrifying regularity, he sent his aides from palace to prison, and from there often to either foreign exile or execution. After a kidnaping attempt on two of his children, Papa Doc ordered 65 officers summarily shot. On another occasion, he personally commanded the firing squad that dispatched 19 of his closest followers, whom he suspected-probably without justification -of plotting against...
LESSON THREE. Fight dirty. In screaming, full-page newspaper ads and proxy mailings, Milstein's faction has accused the management of setting up a stock-option plan that became a "grab bag" for senior officers, and of using $600,000 of company funds to solicit proxies to re-elect itself. The company has retaliated with allegations that one of the challengers is a director of a firm in competition with GAP, that another bought his first 100 shares of stock only a few weeks ago, and that Milstein "has not been employed in a full-time job since December...
...keeping with "the precepts and usages" of the church, interrupted the preacher to contest a point of religious doctrine. The impromptu sermon was held to be legal even though it caused a commotion in the church. But it was held to be a disturbance of worship for one faction of a congregation to enter a church while another faction was worshipping there and to inform the minister of the rival faction that he could not preach there that day. ( Morris us. State, Alabama, 1887.) Such behavior evidently crossed the line between reasonable interruption and unwarranted disturbance...