Word: factionalized
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...kidnapers made six demands in a letter that was anonymously left at a police station. It was signed Kommando Siegfried Hausner, R.A.F.-referring to a terrorist who lied after a 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm. The initials stand for the now familiar Red Army Faction, which had killed both Buback and Ponto. The kidnapers' message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin...
...week's end federal authorities had not yet identified the kidnapers by name. But as admitted members of the Red Army Faction, they presumably conform to a generic profile of the contemporary terrorists put together by the computers of the Federal Criminal Office. Almost all the known disciples of Andreas Baader are well-educated products of respectable-sometimes prominent-middle-and upper-middle-class homes. Unlike the student radicals of the late '60s who lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses...
Novelists have been poaching on real life for some time and Truman Capote didn't invent a new genre, but only gave it a name, when he called his reportorial In Cold Blood a "nonfiction novel." Alex Haley called Roots a work of "faction," blending fact and fiction, but the distinction wasn't made all that clear on TV, embarrassing Haley deeply. Far more tricky legally is Robert Coover's new novel about the Rosenbergs, The Public Burning, where real-name living people (including Richard Nixon) are put into wildly improbable situations. If suits occur...
...Faction. Senegal's Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, proposed that all black nationalist leaders be given equal OAU endorsement. But other delegates were influenced by Kaunda, whose backing of the Patriotic Front was a dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only...
...Palestinian state involving the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. Moshe Dayan, hero of the Six-Day War and now Begin's Foreign Minister, last week flatly rejected what he called "partition" of the West Bank. Begin insists that the West Bank is negotiable, but his Likud political faction has been more amenable to Israeli settlements on that occupied Arab territory than the previous government...