Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the six L.D.P. factions, several ambitious party leaders would no doubt like to replace Nakasone as Japan's Prime Minister. One of the top three contenders: Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, 62, who belongs to the large faction of ailing former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Though Tanaka was convicted in 1983 on charges of accepting a $1.6 million bribe from Lockheed in 1977, his faction remains very powerful...
Despite a U.S. warrant for Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front faction of the PLO, Italian officials at first said they lacked evidence he had any role in the hijacking other than helping negotiate its end. They later issued a warrant for him but he had gone underground...
...find jobs, so they flocked here illegally. We started to negotiate with them and offered to return them to their homes and to try and find jobs for them. We spent millions and succeeded in creating thousands of jobs, but the influx became too great. We warned that factions would be killing each other before long. The faction fighting started, and now we are getting the blame...
...politician had done this, there would have been screams of protest everywhere. As it is, Aquino's pledge of her democratic good intentions is taken at face value, and it should be. But her intentions are not the issue; her skill and strength are. The Philippines is such a faction-ridden, contentious country that the return to, or advance toward, democracy is likely to be slow and halting at best. At worst, the end could be another dictatorship...
Obando has drawn sharp criticism not only from radical priests in the government but also from their religious followers. A breakaway church faction, strongly influenced by Marxist-leaning "liberation theology," claims about 20 of Nicaragua's 327 priests and perhaps as many as 50,000 followers, including some members of Nicaragua's "base communities," mostly poor, urban religious groups without priests. The breakaways find the Cardinal's anti-Communism counterproductive and are put off by his insistence that the church, while obligated to take moral positions, must refrain from active political engagement. "The Catholic institution here is folkloric," says...