Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troublesome far-left faction of the S.P.D.'s Young Socialists (Jusos) added to the strains on Schmidt last March by electing a militant president, Klaus-Uwe Benneter, who advocates cooperation with the Communists. That was too much even for other left-wingers in the S.P.D.: Benneter was fired from his post and ejected from the party. Meanwhile, Schmidt's F.D.P. coalition partners have been pressing the Chancellor for even more restraint in social policy and further tax cuts. To exploit these differences, the opposition has been courting the F.D.P., in hopes of breaking up the coalition and thereby...
...canceled services the Sunday before Election Day, Pastor Bruce Edwards told reporters that the eleven-year-old policy was "immoral and sinful" and that deacons routinely used the term niggers. At President-elect Carter's urging, the church later voted reluctantly to admit blacks. But an Old South faction, which disliked both Edwards' remarks and the fact that he had adopted a Polynesian boy, maneuvered to fire the pastor. Edwards quit instead. The situation deteriorated until those who oppose the old guard and favor moderate racial views started worshiping by themselves last month. After a farewell sermon before...
...morning-glories," he made the first real emotional commitment of his life. But it was not, as they say, a two-way street. The party was interested in him only insofar as it could use him. He was promptly elected executive secretary of his unit because the faction supporting him figured that the opposition would not dare vote against a bona fide Negro...
...toughs who are fighting over lucrative jobs in the organization have produced the worst intramural bloodbath since Al Capone seized control in the 1920s. The toll since December 1973: 21 dead. Observes Peter Vaira, chief of the Justice Department's anti-Mafia strike force in the city: "The younger faction wants more power and a bigger piece of the action. There will be more killings." At the same time, mobsters from New York and Chicago are invading California, shouldering aside the state's aging dons and grabbing a large share of the West's lucrative rackets...
...last week, he was identified as Günter Sonnenberg, 22, the No. 1 fugitive on West Germany's "Most Wanted" list. His companion, Verena Becker, 24, is now in West Germany's top security prison in Stammheim. Both had been involved with the terrorist Red Army Faction founded by Ulrike Meinhof, who hanged herself in prison last year, and Andreas Baader, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month (TIME, May 9). Responsible for a series of "anti-imperialist" bank heists, bombings of U.S. Army bases in Germany and the assassinations of public officials, the Baader-Meinhof...