Word: factionalization
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...white man and you recognize the divinely ordained differentiation between the races," he says, "you're accused of being a racist." The H.N.P, which received 14.1% of the vote in the 1981 national elections, is not represented in Parliament. Even further right is a small (estimated supporters: 5,000) faction that calls itself the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Resistance Movement). Members of the group have been convicted of terrorism for planning to blow up multiracial hotels and "eliminate" black antiapartheid activists...
...first police theorized that Jeff could have been Pimental's killer. But last week the Frankfurt office of the Reuters news agency received a copy of a letter from the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental...
...Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek made a secret deal with Stalin: Chiang let the Red Army escape in exchange for the Russians' release of the Generalissimo's son and eventual successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, held hostage in Moscow. Mao, meanwhile, solidified his power by luring a rival Red Army faction to its destruction and burying the survivors alive...
...Hong Kong's democratic movement is diverse and diffuse. The widespread feeling that the territory should be freer to run its own affairs is tempered by the reality that Hong Kong cannot survive without China's blessings. Discontent is often driven by short-term concerns, and the faction-riven Democratic Party seems incapable of playing the leadership role it should. "It's China that's become more open-minded and forward-looking," says Mandy Tam, a pro-democracy but independent legislator, "and the Democratic Party that's pushy...
...Hong Kong's democratic movement is diverse and diffuse. The widespread feeling that the territory should be freer to run its own affairs is tempered by the reality that Hong Kong cannot survive without China's blessings. Discontent is often driven by short-term concerns, and the faction-riven Democratic Party seems incapable of playing the leadership role it should. "It's China that's become more open-minded and forward-looking," says Mandy Tam, a pro-democracy but independent legislator, "and the Democratic Party that's pushy...