Word: factionalized
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...fire and the fury dramatized the dimensions of a new American tragedy?the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants and the unstable, faction-torn government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally. It ended in the desert staging site, some 250 miles short of its target in the capital city. And for the world...
Commoner, the leader of the presidential faction, maintained at the convention that a national campaign can be an invaluable asset to local organizing, by providing the party with a recognizable national symbol...
...opposing faction did not deny this, but questioned Commoner's commitment to local party-building. Lucius Walker of Pennsylvania, a major figure in the camp opposed to Commoner's views, said that Commoner would be an ideal national candidate. "He's very good on the corporate and macro issues, but not so good on grass roots organizing...
...split in the party was smoothed over. The grass roots faction strongly endorsed Commoner's nomination, and Commoner apologized for campaigning against that faction's leaders. The question that remains is whether the split will surface again during the next few months...
...guerrillas demand the release of all 156 terrorists held in British, West German and Israeli prisonsplus ?5 million sterling and a jet to Libya. Arabs being all too visible in England, the royal heist is conducted by I.R.A. Provos, members of Germany's Red Army Faction and a karate expert from the Japanese Red Army. With some inside help, the terrorists penetrate Buckingham Palace in a captured Fortnum & Mason delivery van. God save the Queen...