Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that the next session of the Communist Party Congress, scheduled for April, will bring change. We know that there are deep divisions, and if the younger reform faction fails -- I don't believe it will -- then there would be an open party quarrel. Most of the army commanders and most of the province leaders are with the reform faction...
...impact on her country's social problems. But she rose to prominence chiefly because of the swiftness of the East German revolution and its need for new people without Communist ties to take over government jobs. The CDU urged her to run for parliament last March, and when her faction won the most seats, she was named president...
...reaction is, 'Vote for Silber to free B.U.--the reign of terror will be over!" said B.U. sophomore Jason T. Massman. "There's also a faction that says, 'Let not sic the mad dog on the entire state...
...night sessions of wrangling, the 15 members agreed unanimously to a British suggestion to marry the U.S.-drafted text with a watered-down version of a proposal made by Yemen on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and backed by the seven other nonaligned Council members. The Yemeni faction had wanted the resolution to blast only Israel but, faced with the threat of a U.S. veto, the group relented in the end. The approved draft "expresses alarm" at the violence in general, thus indirectly criticizing the rock-throwing Palestinians, and "condemns especially" the behavior of the Israeli security forces...
...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...