Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman. The aristocratic John Mortimer Schiff, 73, now chairman of Kuhn Loeb, will become honorary chairman, and Harvey Krueger, 48, who is now president, will become chairman of the banking policy committee. But the amalgamation would seem to be more of a takeover than a merger, since the Lehman faction will control seven of the ten seats on the executive board. Moreover, Kuhn Loeb had been signaling for months that it would entertain merger proposals, because it needed capital. Of an estimated $78 million in capital for the combined firm, Lehman is expected to supply $60 million, the Schiff family...
Shortly after an armored limousine had brought the Shah and Empress Farah onto the South Lawn, trouble broke out. The anti-Shah faction charged through the lines of mounted police and headed for the pro-Shah bleachers, armed with the handles of their placards and wooden two-by-fours that had been piled up for use in the annual Christmas pageant on the Ellipse. As the President began his welcoming remarks, police struggled to keep the two factions apart. The large white welcome banner was ripped to shreds. At that point, the wind carried the first acrid whiffs of tear...
...Middle East?for better or for worse. And in accepting Sadat's overtures to direct contacts, Begin has shown an initiative and enterprise somewhat surprising for an old independence fighter and memorably different from the dogged, entrenched positions that were taken by the Labor governments that preceded his Likud faction in power...
Within hours of the rescue, three members of the Baader-Meinhof gang were found dead in their prison cells in Stuttgart-almost certainly as the result of a suicide pact. Their anarchist allies in the Red Army Faction took up the cry of "political murder," and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned his countrymen to expect revenge...
While a United Nations committee considered a resolution that would condemn skyjacking and require stricter airport security measures, West Germans were steeling themselves for still more attacks by the Red Army Faction or its allies in the international network of terror. Somewhere near Aachen, an illegal radio transmitter sputtered for a few minutes last week on the frequency used by the U.S. armed forces network. "Schleyer will not be the last," it promised. Calling for the "destruction of the imperialist, corrupt, rotten place that calls itself the Federal Republic of Germany," it continued: "Destroy all police stations, banks, city halls...