Word: factionalized
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...Soviets seem to want to stay neutral, and all the evidence so far was that they were. But the U.S.S.R. could profit handsomely from a long war by gaining new influence over Iran as well as Iraq. A badly beaten Iran might dissolve into chaos, allowing a left-wing faction to gain control in Tehran. The Soviets could offer to guarantee Iran's security. Or they might pose as mediators and win a major role at a peace conference called to end the war Says one well-informed analyst: "If the Soviet Union can worm...
...speech in Tuscumbia, which, anyway, was not the birthplace of the racist organization. Earlier, addressing a white audience in Mississippi, Reagan had spoken of "states' rights," a longtime code word for opposition to desegregation. He also had received, and quickly renounced, an unsolicited endorsement from one faction of the Klan...
...bizarre episode confronted the newly independent nation of Zimbabwe with its most serious crisis since the end of the Rhodesian civil war. It threw Mugabe's faction-ridden ZANU party into confusion. It sent a jolt of fear through the white community just as whites were beginning to acquire confidence in the new black leadership. Finally, it raised new doubts about the durability of Zimbabwe's new constitutional community...
...probably inevitable that Tekere's abrasive outbursts would eventually cause friction even with Mugabe. Last month, after the Nkomo faction accused Tekere and some of his supporters of expending "hot air," Mugabe discreetly conceded that some of his ministers-statements should not be confused with government policy. Responded an unrepentant Tekere: "I will go on releasing hot air because it represents the view of the people. Let us be realistic. Unless we keep riding the tide of revolution, down we go as a government." Explaining that a number of whites had asked him to be more moderate, he added...
...left, meanwhile, has managed to bring its faction-ridden forces together into a "Democratic Revolutionary Front" that combines Marxist guerrilla bands with more moderate reform groups. The guerrillas, who have some 3,000 men under arms, are not yet a match for the 15,000-man Salvadoran army. But they have long promised a full-scale military insurrection, and there are signs that it may soon get under way. Skirmishes between guerrilla bands and army units near the Honduran border last month left at least 30 soldiers and 100 guerrillas dead...