Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIVESTMENT has been the focus of alumni and student protests for several years, and Tutu has a moral authority with regard to this issue that would grant greater credibility to the divestment movement. His election and the power that he would bring to the pro-divestment faction of overseers may indeed mean that the virtually inactive Board of Overseers will be able to accomplish an important goal...
...Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 41, best-organized and most ruthless of the rebel leaders, heads a faction of the Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Despite his outspokenly anti-Western views, he is reportedly allotted 25% of the total U.S. weapon supply by the Pakistanis, more even than Rabbani. An engineer by training, Hekmatyar is a religious extremist who would keep Afghan women in purdah...
...Maulvi Younus Khalis, 70, the only political leader who also regularly serves as a military field commander, leads an independent faction of the Islamic Party. A former village mullah dismissed as something of a bumpkin by his rivals, Khalis sports a henna-dyed beard and in 1987 took a 16-year-old bride. He vehemently opposes elections; in his view, the only constitution needed for post-Soviet Afghanistan is the Koran...
...interview last week, Clark promised to make minority faculty hiring "more systematic than in the past." He said he would reach out to all members of the faculty--even the CLS faction he has so strongly attacked...
...dream of all dictators: to die in bed, holding power to the end. There had been only the slightest intimations that Stroessner's days were numbered. Despite close personal ties between the two generals (Rodriguez's daughter is married to Stroessner's son), Rodriguez had quietly sided with a faction within the ruling Colorado Party that favors limited democratic reforms. As a result, Stroessner reportedly was on the verge of moving Rodriguez to a purely ceremonial position. Rodriguez, who has headed the largest of Paraguay's three army corps since 1961, did not give him the opportunity. Stroessner's health...