Word: factionalized
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...Gongalves has since proved to be a weak leader, who was better trained to build bridges for the army than act as Premier. Under him the A.F.M. has begun to show some basic ideological contradictions, with its main faction going with Gongalves toward the left and the others moving right with Spinola...
Doar drove himself until his face was gray to prepare his final brief, and Rodino steered his faction-torn committee to last week's climactic and bipartisan vote-the goal he had been striving for so diligently all along. Through it all-the proddings from his own leaders and the cries from the White House that he was conducting a "kangaroo court"-Rodino had kept his cool. As his colleagues acknowledged, by and large Chairman Rodino could say, with justification, "We have deliberated, we have been patient, we have been fair...
...opposition parties are understandably angry over the heavy spending of the L.D.P. under Tanaka's control. The leaders of other L.D.P. factions-including Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, Tanaka's most powerful rival-are angry too. They fear that, by controlling the purse strings, Tanaka is strengthening his support within the party at their expense. They are well aware that the huge campaign fund has helped Tanaka to field 29 candidates from his own faction of the party-as opposed to only 16 from Fukuda's wing...
...doctorate in political science. He came to California in 1957 to join the political-science faculty at Pomona College and entered politics as a state assemblyman in 1960. In three two-year terms Flournoy allied himself with the liberal Republican minority. He never became part of the dominant Reagan faction, even after winning the controller's post in 1966. Flournoy's amiable grin and easy manner are assets, but even well-wishers acknowledge that his performance as a candidate has been bland. His aides attempted to make that a virtue, emphasizing his insistence on spending Sundays at home...
Unfortunately, another faction is trying to gnaw away impartially at all of them, without regard to race, creed, color or state of mental health. It is a herd of vampire bats, who are understandably annoyed at the way their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than you would give them credit for - short-circuiting the lights at will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival...