Word: factionalized
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...conference of black leaders inside Rhodesia, thereby excluding such militants as the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, James Chikerema and other A.N.C. representatives who cannot enter the country without being arrested. Smith may also try to reach an agreement with Joshua Nkomo, who is known as the most moderate A.N.C. faction leader and the one with the widest political support within Rhodesia. If Smith could work out even a token power-sharing scheme with Nkomo, he just might be able to split the A.N.C. and ease the pressure from Vorster and Kaunda...
...right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction: "This is not an agreement. It is unilateral withdrawal." The right-wing Gush Emunim movement is planning a giant anti-Kissinger demonstration when the Secretary of State takes his shuttle to Jerusalem. "Kissinger is a disaster," says Gershon Shafat. "His priorities are: one, Kissinger; two, the President; three, the U.S. Israel...
...persuade Trujillo to resign to end the domestic unrest that the U.S. feared might make the country ripe for Communism. They had also been gingerly in touch with leaders of the political opposition and as a token of the American interest in seeing a change, had provided one faction with three rifles. A group of seven or eight men ambushed Trujillo on the road from his house to the presidential palace. Whether any of the U.S.-supplied rifles were used in the killing has never been determined to the senior CIA men's satisfaction...
Leaders of the Congress Party quickly started a campaign to organize public support for Mrs. Gandhi. But opposition parties announced that they would no longer recognize her as head of the nation's government. S.K. Patil, a member of the Congress Party faction that broke with her in 1969 and formed a separate party, said: "At long last Mrs. Gandhi has met her Watergate...
...complications following a stroke; in Tokyo. Son of a sake brewer and brother of Nobusuke Kishi, Japan's Prime Minister from 1957 to 1960, Sato was a master of the Japanese art of consensus, which he used to rule the country's dominant but faction-ridden Liberal-Democratic Party and manage a policy of government-assisted industrial growth that transformed Japan into an economic superpower. The greatest coup of his steadfastly pro-U.S. foreign policy came in 1969 when the Nixon Administration made an agreement to return Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty, but his political position was soon...