Word: factionalized
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...stooped to the Yankees'--sorry guys, to Steinbrenner's--level of boorishness and hopeful that their team might yet rise again. It can happen--it's been done. You have to like the chances of an emotionally sound team like the O's more than those of the faction-ridden Yanks, talented as they are. If a couple of arms come around, if outfielders start hitting the cut-off man again, the Birds could be knocking on the pennant door come September. That is--unless the Bosox don't run away with...
...million in 1982, the military would be hamstrung in its fight against the leftist guerrillas seeking to topple the government. The generals therefore insisted on a respectable moderate as provisional President. Their preferred candidate was Magaña, who was also acceptable to the U.S. and to a faction of the P.C.N., the old political arm of the military regimes that ruled the country from 1961 until the October 1979 coup that ultimately brought outgoing President Duarte's civilian-military junta to power...
Savasta confirmed reports that the Red Brigades had developed ties to other terrorist groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and West Germany's Red Army Faction. He also provided a fascinating, if as yet inconclusive, link between the Red Brigades and the Soviet bloc. In prison depositions, he claimed that the Red Brigades had been in contact with the Bulgarian embassy in Rome. One of the supposed intermediaries was Luigi Scricciolo, 35, an official of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro, one of Italy's largest trade union federations, and an alleged Red Brigades undercover agent. After Dozier...
...Central Committee's inertia reflected the party's disarray in the face of an ideological power struggle within its dwindling ranks (29% of its members have resigned since August 1980). In recent weeks, a hard-line faction has increasingly attacked party moderates and called for a return to Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy. Led by figures like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, this group draws its strength from the bureaucrats whose privileges are threatened by reform...
...conservative Independent faction of the City Council claimed two major victories over the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) last night, electing Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci as mayor and taking long-awaited steps toward weakening the city's controversial ordinance prohibiting the conversion of rent-controlled housing to condominiums...