Word: factionalized
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From a wealthy family and well educated (Swarthmore '66), she had first joined the radical Students for a Democratic Society and later its violent Weatherman faction, which fought pitched battles with police in Chicago and bombed a police station and a bank in Manhattan. While her father, who owned a string of Midwestern radio stations, was on vacation in the Caribbean, Wilkerson turned over his elegant Greenwich Village home to Weatherman friends, who apparently began making bombs in the basement. A series of dynamite blasts not only demolished the house, but also killed three Weathermen...
...leading candidate to succeed Ohira is former Trade Minister Toshio Komoto, 69, a sharp, urbane industrialist who made a fortune in shipping and who has support from the business sector. Komoto, however, is an unknown quantity as party leader and is opposed by Tanaka's faction for having supported an investigation of the former Prime Minister's links to the Lockheed scandal (Tanaka resigned before being indicted for taking a $2 million bribe). Another candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some...
Khalkhali's efforts have drawn criticism from some political parties in Tehran, but his ferocity has won him wide popularity. It has enhanced his already considerable political power as a leader of the militant clerical faction of parliament that often opposes the moderate government of President Abolhassan Banisadr...
...dancers that he is arbitrary and dictatorial, plays too many favorites and tampers heavyhandedly with the traditional repertory, while stifling new choreography by reserving the major assignments for himself. Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, now 54 and a revered figure in the U.S.S.R., has become leader of a rebellious faction of Bolshoi veterans, including Maris Liepa and Mikhail Lavrovsky. Many younger dancers, not outspoken, are nevertheless known to feel that Grigorovich denies them opportunities if they fail to catch his capricious favor...
Theo is an imaginary character, though the specific details of his dilem ma are all too true. Forbes' novel is not "faction" or a thriller, but a thoughtful blend of both...