Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joginder Singh also named Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, 49, the Akali Dal's president and leader of the moderate faction within the party, to the committee. Longowal, a forceful advocate of struggle against what he calls an "unjust government" in New Delhi, does not subscribe to the idea of separate nationhood. After last week's bomb attacks, he resigned...
...leaflets left by the Brussels terrorists, a group calling itself the Fighting Communist Cells claimed responsibility for the blast. The organization is believed to have links with other leftist terrorist organizations, including Action Directe in France and the West German Red Army Faction. Bereaved Brussels firemen responded by issuing their own communique, declaring, "We mourn our comrades, cowardly assassinated this night. The First of May will not be a holiday for some 1,000 Brussels workers, the fire fighters...
...silence and prayer. However, an experimental charter approved by the Vatican in 1977 allowed more leeway for the 13,000 nuns, who live in 826 convents across 72 nations, with the largest group in Spain. Though four-fifths of these nuns favor the moderate reforms, a strict traditionalist faction has been lobbying against them...
...John's trial began the next morning. Emotions ran high against May. "Where's your hatchet, Bishop?" shouted one Roth supporter. Roth yelled, "This is a fixed court!" The Roth faction complained that under church law the bishop named ten of the 15 judges. Moreover, Roth never testified in his own defense. He refused to appear unless he was allowed to tape-record the trial. The panel refused because church law requires secrecy...
...falling apart, but the relative positions of the occupying powers, Israel and Syria, probably remain about the same. In the south, the Israelis are continuing their painful withdrawal, while the Syrians are profiting from the activities of the Shi'ite militants. In the Christian north, a pro-Israeli faction is posing a threat. If the situation there gets any worse, the Syrians may feel obliged to rescue the Gemayel government by military means, thereby angering Syria's Lebanese Muslim allies and setting the stage for still another round of political and sectarian violence...