Word: factionalized
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...were less pleased. The Guardian, an intellectual left-of-center newspaper, called Reagan "a wonderful old smoothie" but, style aside, viewed his speech as cold war rhetoric. Though the leaders of the opposition Labor Party attended the Royal Gallery speech, many backbenchers boycotted it. Members of a left-wing faction held a simultaneous meeting to protest what they viewed as a simplistic, black-and-white approach to NATO-Soviet relations...
Many foreign observers that one Palestinian faction or had been involved in the London though the P.L.O. office in London responsibility. The gunman, Hassan Ahmed Said, 23, who was hospitalized and then turned over to the police, had at least two accomplices. The men carried two Jordanian passports one from Iraq. Their capture by Scotland Yard reportedly led to the seizure of a hit list targeting other high-level Israelis, well as a cache of guns, hand grenades and ammunition...
...most elaborate that Britain had ever mounted. The police were clearly anticipating publicity-seeking demonstrations, and perhaps even ugly scuffles designed to embarrass the Pope and tarnish the ecumenical gloss of the visit. Most Britons support the Pope's trip, but Special Branch police were watchful of a faction of anti-Pope fanatics, especially in Liverpool and Glasgow. "We are expecting trouble," said one security spokesman...
...leader of our movement, to restrain the anti-gay social current that you fostered. A public furor, once aroused, will require a target and although you may add others to the list of your enemies, you will be unable to preserve fundamental rights of minorities against a majority faction. I'm telling you all of this now, Director, because I don't want to see you get cold feet as we near our goal the eradication of homosexuality...
...traditionalist bastion of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a diehard opponent of the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however, was not conservative enough for Fernández, who broke with the Ecône faction to join a French group called the Sedevacantistes. The group's name derives from its basic tenet: that the See of Peter has been vacant since the 1958 death of Pope Pius XII, whom they consider the last orthodox Pope. Fernández may face a high penalty for acting...