Word: factionalization
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...underscore his legitimacy -- a covey of newly arrived ambassadors. The Premier declared that the soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao had been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title, and put under house arrest for daring to challenge the paramount authority of Deng. As for Deng, he is believed...
...considerable risk to their careers, 500 intellectuals, including Ba Jin, China's best-known writer, signed a letter denouncing Li and urging an end to press censorship. Until the hard-line faction emerged victorious, China's official press and television reported with neutral accuracy on the pro- democracy demonstrations. By contrast, last Friday's prime-time TV news was constricted to official statements of support for martial...
...debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed his resolution concerning new undergraduate organizations because of the ROTC, the reaffirmation of the Undergraduate Council's commitment...
...With their record, the Khmer Rouge can hardly be expected to submit to elections or to participate in a peaceful democracy. If they and the non- Communists remain aligned against the Phnom Penh leaders, the three- against-one combination will probably end in the defeat of the odd faction out; that will allow the Khmer Rouge to turn their guns on the other...
Japan is no different from other industrialized countries in permitting individual and corporate contributions to politicians, parties and causes. But the amounts allowed in Japanese politics are large by any measure, and the system has long tentacles. Takeshita, like other L.D.P. faction leaders, used the huge sums he raised to aid the political careers of lower-ranking members in his faction...