Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-P.L.O. mission early last week. The fighters blasted P.L.O. targets that Israeli officials termed "terrorist bases" near the town of Bar Elias in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. The bases apparently belonged to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a dissident faction of the P.L.O. The raid came only a day before Hussein's meeting with Arafat...
...current incarnation, the CCA faction in city politics is pro-rent control, pro-minority rights, and in general favoring progressive social policy. The CCA usually stands opposed to the more conservative Independent faction in the city council and school committee. At its inception, however, the CCA was designed primarily as a moderately conservative "good government" group...
...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...
...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...
...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...