Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israelis want a new Lebanese government dominated by the faction with which they feel most comfortable: the right-wing Christian Phalange, led by the Gemayel family. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner who planned and directed the sweep into Lebanon, has even envisaged turning the country into a Phalangist-controlled state. Other Israeli officials, however, are more flexible and see the necessity for forming a broad coalition of all significant Lebanese political groups?including the Muslim leftists led by Walid Jumblatt, head of the so-called National Movement, which has been loosely allied with the P.L.O...
Reagan and his aides discussed on Wednesday whether to reply to the Soviet challenge and decided not to do so. The winning faction, led by National Security Adviser William Clark, felt that a reply, which could only have been a rejection, would have permitted the Soviets to dictate the terms of the disarmament debate. Nonetheless, many U.N. delegates were disappointed that Reagan did not discuss the first-use question...
...were less pleased. The Guardian, an intellectual left-of-center newspaper, called Reagan "a wonderful old smoothie" but, style aside, viewed his speech as cold war rhetoric. Though the leaders of the opposition Labor Party attended the Royal Gallery speech, many backbenchers boycotted it. Members of a left-wing faction held a simultaneous meeting to protest what they viewed as a simplistic, black-and-white approach to NATO-Soviet relations...
...small, willful faction of Saturday's crowd planned on Monday to "blockade the bombmakers," shutting down for a day the U.N. offices of major nuclear powers. More typical of the galliers Saturday were concerned mainstreamers like New York Mayor Edward Koch. Said he: "It's terrific to try to affect the conscience of the world. It's just regrettable they don't have a similar demonstration in MOSCOW." - By Kurt Andersen. Reported ?. White and Adam Zagorin/New York
Many foreign observers that one Palestinian faction or had been involved in the London though the P.L.O. office in London responsibility. The gunman, Hassan Ahmed Said, 23, who was hospitalized and then turned over to the police, had at least two accomplices. The men carried two Jordanian passports one from Iraq. Their capture by Scotland Yard reportedly led to the seizure of a hit list targeting other high-level Israelis, well as a cache of guns, hand grenades and ammunition...