Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." That designation, reaffirmed in 1982, is the foundation of the P.L.O's power in international affairs. But formal recognition of the P.L.O. has never prevented the Arab nations from furthering their own feuds by backing one P.L.O. faction against another. P.L.O. fighters have been shot at not only by ) Israelis but by Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians and each other. In 1978 a bomb demolished the eight-story Beirut headquarters of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front, killing more than 180 people. Presumed bombers: a rival faction. Presumed target: Abbas...
...Abbas faction of the P.L.F. (it is now splintered into three fragments) is believed today to be financed partly by Iraq, an enemy of Syria's. Abbas travels under an Iraqi diplomatic passport. Italy last week cited diplomatic immunity as partial justification for letting Abbas go rather than extraditing...
Arafat was just as eager to comply. On Monday evening, one of his closest advisers, Hani el-Hassan, already was in Egypt. He was soon joined by Abul Abbas, leader of the pro-Arafat faction of the P.L.F. The heavyset Abbas, 40, was born in Haifa and educated in Damascus; a former airline hijacker himself, Abbas rates high on many Western lists of most-wanted terrorists. In 1977, Abbas helped to found the P.L.F. as a breakaway group from the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command...
There hasn't been anything like an organized faction in the council since the short-lived "freshman caucus," which died out towards the end of the government's first year. Today's council is clearly a cohessive group, a group ment, and drafting the reports and holding the meetings which being a government entails...