Word: factionalized
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...strings of a puppet, and it falls down. That is what happened last week to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu. Noboru Takeshita, the leader of the dominant faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, severed the political cords that have propped up Kaifu for two years. Kaifu realized he had lost his standing within the party. Rather than face humiliation in the Oct. 27 party elections that will select the next Prime Minister, he announced that he would...
...contest for the Prime Minister's job is wide open. The three contenders who had already lined up to challenge Kaifu see their positions strengthened. Within the Takeshita faction, politicians are scrambling frantically for the nomination...
...book can be said to summon up the passions of this moment, it is Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise, (Knopf; $24.95). Published last year, the 453-page popular history has become a call to arms for the anti- Columbians; it is also the book the traditional Columbus faction most loves to hate. Sale is a social historian whose research into Columbus' life and travels and the explorer's contemporary world is impressive; his narrative, especially when he joins Columbus aboard the Santa Maria, is gripping. Sale persuasively describes what it must have felt like for the explorer...
Terror organizations with a Marxist-Leninist ideology are also in trouble because their political dogma has been so discredited that they are losing members and morale. The Japanese Red Army, which launched a series of bloody attacks in the 1970s, is down to 20 members. Germany's Red Army Faction is a similar example, though its small remaining core group can still inflict serious pain. R.A.F. assassins have killed two leading German financiers since December...
Western Europe cannot afford to be euphoric either. Besides the Red Army Faction, the Irish Republican Army is still grimly at work. So is the Basque separatist E.T.A., busily planting bombs as Spain prepares to welcome millions of visitors to the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and the World's Fair in Seville. Even if state-sponsored terrorism fades, much of the world is $ likely to be as perilous as ever...