Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death followed a series of murders of well-known European military and industrial leaders by indigenous terrorist organizations. In January 1985 Action Directe claimed responsibility for the death of General Rene Audran, a prominent French Ministry of Defense official. Days later, members of the West German Red Army Faction murdered Ernst Zimmermann, a Munich defense industrialist. Some experts believe the atrocities are linked, and point to a communique the two groups issued last year declaring they would form a "West European guerrilla movement." Last week French authorities were investigating a possible West German connection to the Besse slaying...
When Reagan appointees gained a majority on the seven-member Federal Reserve board of governors last February, predictions abounded that the central bank would adopt a more stimulative monetary policy in an effort to pump up the economy. After all, the Reaganite faction would be led by Manuel Johnson, the current Fed vice chairman, who is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, certified supply sider and onetime critic of the Reserve Board for being too tightfisted in its fight against inflation. So far, the new lineup seems to have done its job. Since last March the Fed has steadily...
...most part, the Volcker faction has gone along with the Reaganites' contention that the economy needs some juice. "There is a broad consensus on monetary policy on the board right now," says Johnson. For the past three months the governors have let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual rate -- much faster than the 3%-to-8% target range that the Fed originally set for this year. That accommodating policy has allowed the growth rate in the gross national product to bounce up from .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the July-September period...
Perhaps the toughest task before the new Senate majority will be speaking in a unified voice. There may be a skirmish for the soul of the party between the Kennedy-Cranston Old Guard and a neoliberal faction led by such Senators as Joe Biden of Delaware and Georgia's Sam Nunn. The Democrats have historically been a party of competing factions. Sometimes, as when Southern segregationists of old were filibustering the civil rights legislation of their Northern colleagues, there has been open warfare. The struggle this time around will be more subdued...
...Paris daily newspaper Le Monde. The paper said that France, via Algeria and Syria, had arranged a "truce" with Lebanon's Abdallah clan, whom France has held responsible for the September wave of bombings. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, is serving a four-year term in a French prison for possession of arms, explosives and false documents. According to Le Monde, the terrorist group, based in northern Lebanon, was pressured to hold off on new actions at least until February, when Georges Abdallah is to go on trial for complicity...