Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 10 rally was surprising for its size, spirit and the message emblazoned on some banners: LA ESTADIDAD ES PARA LOS POBRES. Statehood for the poor? In Puerto Rico's triangulated politics, the statehood cause had been - monopolized by the upper class. A small faction of nationalists and leftists fought, occasionally with guns, for total independence. The rest of the population appeared content with commonwealth status, the pragmatic option in effect since 1952. As an American commonwealth, or "associated free state" in island usage, Puerto Rico has received enough benefits and tax concessions from Washington to make it rich...
...three hostages, vowed, "There is no intention to release hostages." Meanwhile, it was disclosed that last month President Bush accepted a phone call from an impostor claiming to be Rafsanjani. Though they do not know for sure, White House officials think the hoax was perhaps perpetrated by Mohtashami's faction to embarrass Rafsanjani...
...group has seen its primary mission as working within the party for change, but Shostakovsky does not rule out the possibility that the Platform might become a separate faction if reform should lag. In some ways the rector of the Higher Party School seems like a Martin Luther who has yet to nail his 95 Theses on the door of the Central Committee. Says Shostakovsky: "The policy of centrism and compromise has been exhausted by now. It was always a risky strategy that courted disaster. It is time to pursue a more radical course in transforming society...
...murder of opponents, and was subjected to journalistic exposes of his drug running and arms smuggling. But the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration stood by him, even as the DEA developed the evidence leading to his indictments. The State Department was split between a get-Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that the millions he was by then receiving from the Medellin drug cartel dwarfed his CIA payoffs...