Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stepped-up campaign beyond the borders of Northern Ireland, assassinated Ian Gow, a friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a Conservative Member of Parliament, with a bomb that wrecked his Montego car in the driveway of his home. Three days earlier in West Germany, the Red Army Faction almost succeeded in killing Hans Neusel, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry and Bonn's top antiterrorist expert, in a similar attempt. The actions demonstrated that while their numbers may be dwindling, both the I.R.A. and the R.A.F. do not need popular support, or even broadly based groups of sympathizers...
...comparison with the I.R.A., which thanks to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi remains well armed, West Germany's Red Army Faction is modestly equipped. The group's ranks are divided, and it is demoralized by the loss of the sanctuary that was offered to terrorists until a year ago by the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. Still, the R.A.F.'s hard-core leadership of 15 to 20 people retains considerable destructive force. Over the past five years the R.A.F., a successor to the feared Baader-Meinhof gang, has attempted to assassinate six leading West German figures -- and succeeded four times. Eight...
...have come -- or fallen. The struggle over Robert Bork turned court nominations into a savage political battleground. "Every faction wants its own little government in the court," sighed one White House strategist last week. The Democratic Congress, so long denied Executive power, and the Republican White House, so long thwarted in Legislative matters, both seek the balance of power through the Supreme Court. Washington has 55,000 lawyers, 7,000 lobbyists, 20,000 congressional staff members and some 10,000 journalists. Most of them are self-appointed experts on the court. They produce interesting noise, no discernible national harmony...
Among Bush's closest advisers, one faction, led by Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, may prod Bush to choose a moderate conservative to avoid the type of Senate fight that led to the rejection of Bork. They are expected to argue that since Bush may have a chance to fill more vacancies, there is no need to antagonize Congress in an election year...
...numbers continued to rise, Western concern began to grow too. A victory by the conservative faction could turn the trickle into a flood. At week's end the Albanian parliament agreed to let all the asylum seekers leave the country without fear of punishment. Whether that will stop the flow for good is another matter...