Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was something inexplicable about the mass phenomenon that rescued the island nation from a failing dictatorship, enabling thousands of unarmed civilians to protect one faction of the armed forces from the other, there was no doubt when the process began. It was Aug. 21, 1983, on the tarmac at Manila international airport. On that day, Opposition Politician Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., 50, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S., was slain by a single bullet as he stepped off a jetliner into a crowd of soldiers and well-wishers. Though Marcos tried...
...highly visible band of about 100 well-trained soldiers whose aim was not to topple Marcos but to pressure him to reorganize the military. Throughout the election campaign, while Enrile publicly supported Marcos, his reformers conducted a crusade for honest voting that angered the President and the Ver faction in the military. The reformers in turn were enraged by the strong-arm methods used by the pro-Marcos forces in the vote counting, and even more by the assassination of Evelio Javier, a leading opposition figure. Nonetheless they remained inactive because they wanted to appear impartial. The military...
SARCASM ASIDE, it's time we sided with the doctors. Despite the fact that any alteration in the status quo will alienate the legal and insurance factions, and the fact that the Massachusetts doctors have been utterly callous in their reaction, the argument of the medical faction on the malpractice insurance issue is still the most convincing one. Though its rhetoric may appear territorial, the medical plea for moderating the run-away malpractice problem is a reasonable one with comparatively egalitarian consequences...
Whether it's ordering the college to tear down the anti-apartheid shanties on the Green or suspending students who attempted to do the same thing two weeks ago, McLaughlin can't seem to please any faction at the otherwise sleepy New England college...
...obscene high-mindedness to limit actions against apartheid for fear of tainting an undergraduate legislative body with vulgar politicking. If there is a political faction that stands to benefit by a yes vote on question 2, this is as it should be. Why should anyone--particularly Harvard's decision makers--care about this "poll" if the Council itself ought not to act on it? Should student government poll students for their opinion only to deliberately ignore...