Word: factionalized
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...declared thousands of leaflets distributed by Socialists in the streets of Lisbon last week, as Portugal plunged headlong into its latest political crisis. On one side of the battle lines are the Socialists and their colleagues of the moderate left; on the other the Communists, backed by a powerful faction within the ruling Revolutionary Council. At issue is the future of Portuguese democracy, and the showdown may be at hand...
Roaming Anarchists. The sources of all this concern are hard-core members of a group of anarchists who call themselves the "Red Army Faction," but are popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. On trial are Ringleader Andreas Baader, 32, an art school dropout; Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist; Gudrun Ensslin, 34, a former teacher; and Jan-Carl Raspe, 30, sociologist. A fifth defendant, Holger Meins, died in prison last November after a two-month hunger strike. All are middle-class revolutionaries who emerged from the 1968 student rebellions in Germany determined to destroy "the System...
...death, a long-simmering power struggle on the 14-man board intensified. On one side were supporters of Norman Alexander, chairman of Sun Chemical Corp. and a longtime friend of Black's who had joined the board to help find a successor. Opposing Alexander was a faction backing Edward Gelsthorpe, 53, United Brands' executive vice president and chief operating officer. He ran the Boston office and was the man considered most likely to succeed Black. As United Brands' losses mounted, the two men clashed so often that Black threatened to fire Gelsthorpe...
...imperative that this company bring in somebody not in any way involved in the events of the past months." His opponents agreed, and the board united to choose Booth and Detroit Investor Max M. Fisher, one of United Brands' biggest stockholders, who becomes acting chairman. In private, each faction still disparages the other; yet the rivals are at the same time happy with Booth's selection, because it means that neither side...
...that the North is bent on a dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu government, not to mention the many thousands of police, militiamen and regular soldiers...