Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked why I should go along with him, the only reason he could offer me was that be thought he was the best candidate and wanted to win--and that it was absolutely essential to keep control of the club out of the hands of the Eliot House faction. For the droves of Q-World people and the many Democrats (It's an even but that there were as many Democrats as Republicans at Boylston Auditorium that night) who participated in the election, this was reason enough. Carina Campobasse...
Whoever wins the struggle will ultimately have to face a stiff challenge from the far left, whose various factions have thousands of trained guerrillas under arms. The best organized of the leftist groupings are the pro-Moscow Communists, led by the Tudeh Party and including a faction of the guerrilla organization Fadayan-e-Khalq. So far, these groups have opposed Banisadr, whom they suspect of being pro-Western. Instead, they have pretended to support the mullahs, whose bungling feeds the popular discontent necessary for an eventual Communist takeover. Former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told TIME last week...
...issue of whether Iran should continue to hold the hostages festered throughout the Americans' captivity, as they were used by one faction or another as pawns in the struggle for power. Eventually the right-wing clerics, who until recently wanted the Americans to be kept captive, managed to subdue the more Western-oriented moderates led by President Abolhassan Banisadr, who would have preferred to release the hostages. The mullahs gained control of the Cabinet, parliament and judiciary and forced Banisadr to accept Fundamentalist Mohammed Ali Raja'i as Prime Minister. Then Banisadr, as commander in chief...
According to Chinese sources, the final verdict had been delayed by wrangling within Peking's top leadership over whether or not to spare Jiang's life. The end of the long trial caps the orchestrated purge of China's once powerful, Mao-inspired radical faction. The trial was, in fact, largely an act of vengeance by the officials currently in power, most of whom had been purged during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Fittingly enough, the widows of several of the top leaders who did not survive the violence of that upheaval were in the audience...
...minority moderate faction within the armed forces is seeking closer relations with the civilian democratic opposition. It favors friendly relations with the Nicaraguan government and with the FSLN. It wants no Honduran involvement in El Salvador. It considers that open conflict with Nicaragua could prove dangerously destabilizing for Honduras and is not convinced of the possibility of defeating the new Sandinista army and militias...