Word: factionalized
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...faction is led by Premier Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. They want to maintain the status quo-in effect to keep all or most of the occupied territories. Last month, at a meeting of Labor Party leaders, Dayan demanded what one critic called "practical annexation." Dayan would like to create an economic union between those Arab areas and Israel, with a free flow of labor and capital. Arabs would be allowed autonomy on purely local matters...
After six years of military dictatorship, Argentines will finally have a chance to choose a civilian government in presidential elections scheduled for next March. But even before the campaign warms up, it is turning into a standoff. A faction of the Justicialista Party of former Dictator Juan Perón has nominated him for President, and he is the dominant candidate, even though he is now 76 and has lived in exile for 17 years. Voters who remember the old days of free spending and populism under Perón are ready to vote for him in numbers large enough...
...Akasaka district. According to widely circulated rumors, a delegate can receive $1,500 for merely attending one of these persuasion sessions. If he promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction leader will make special payments of perhaps $3,300-known as a bodan chokkl, or "bulletproof vest"-to his followers, thereby enabling him to deliver their votes in a bloc to the candidate of his choice...
Tanaka's followers originally conceded that Fukuda would have an edge on the first ballot. But their hopes were greatly bolstered last week when Yasuhiro Nakasone, head of the party's executive committee, pledged his faction's support to their man. For his part, Fukuda is receiving strong behind-the-scenes support from Sato, who despite his graceless exit from office retains considerable political clout and is devoting his last days in office to boosting the successor of his choice...
...times a week on the financial page. When a group of antiwar staffers wanted to buy an ad demanding Richard Nixon's impeachment, Winship balked. The result was a compromise in which the Op-Ed page one day was given over to a debate between the pro-impeachment faction and the paper's chief editorialist...