Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling that Nicaragua's ruling nine-member National Directorate is split over the strategy that it should pursue in the negotiations. The prevailing speculation among U.S. policymakers is that Junta Coordinator Ortega, who is also the Sandinista candidate for President in the November elections, leads a pragmatic faction that is tempted to make concessions. According to that analysis, Ortega's hard-line opponents on the Directorate are led by Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martinez. Other experts are less certain of the Ortega-Borge division, but according to a U.S. analyst, "Ortega is the dominant personality, though...
...Chamorro Rapoccioli, a military officer aligned with the ARDE. Pastora had opposed the merger plan on the ground that the F.D.N. was led by former National Guard officers who had supported deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Pastora has vowed to continue his war against the Sandinistas with his own faction, the Sandino Revolutionary Front...
They were apparently overruled, however, by the faction within the ruling Politburo that is staying true to Andropov's anticorruption efforts. It is not known if Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko is included in this group. Speculation has it that the chief watchdog is Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, who is thought to have been Chernenko's closest rival for the top party job. In recent weeks scores of other arrests have been reported. Among those apprehended were seven officials of Roskontsert, the government agency that arranges orchestral concerts. They have been sentenced to terms ranging from three to 13 years...
Since every faction in the Cabinet bears responsibility for its share of abductions, the government has no interest in public discussion of this issue. But to placate the women, the Cabinet last week set up a committee to determine the fate of the missing and win the release of the survivors. International Committee of the Red Cross officials have already visited about 120 hostages held by the various militias...
...have a guest in your house, the first week you have breakfast and the talk is friendly," explains Jorge Arturo Reina, leader of a dissident faction of Honduras' ruling Liberal Party. "After a month, your wife begins to ask when he is leaving. The second month, you ask him directly what his plans are." Nor is any foreign military presence likely to be popular in a country in which barely half the population is fully employed and per capita income is only $600 a year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras...