Word: factionalized
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...Helfand '71, spokesman for the group, emphasized that the Weatherman faction had "no connection" at all with...
...dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse." And he relates their schemes with delight: freaking out Eugene McCarthy and a convention of college editors; leafleting LBJ's favorite church; roaming Washington's streets on the night of Martin Luther King's death; and , in the climax, outwitting the rival faction of the LNS with a daring daylight raid on its offices...
...radical, counterpart to the AP or UPI. From its office in Washington, it sent out stories to hundreds of underground papers across the country-stories about students, blacks, dissident GI's, the War, the draft, Chicanos, drugs, astrology, and just about everything else. Ideologically independent of any single faction of the Left, the LNS served to foster the notion that there was still such a thing as The Movement, a popular misconception which led to Chicago's Yippie hysteria and the subsequent Chicago conspiracy trail. Its founders never fooled themselves about that piece of fiction, realizing that their alleged movement...
Less than a year after its inception, strange stories began to filter out about the LNS itself: predictable ideological splits, internal dissension, and finally, a bizarre heist in which one faction stole all the organization's equipment from its office and moved it to a farm in Massachusetts. Then there were...
...Baath (literally, Renaissance) originated in Syria during World War II, blending socialism with Arab nationalism. In 1961, they supported Syria's pullout from the three-year-old United Arab Republic, thus ending Nasser's dream of an Egyptian-led Arab bloc. Currently controlled by a minority Moslem faction under General Salah Jadid, who wields the real power over the party, Syria has been rocked by no fewer than 16 coups in the past 21 years, many resulting from intraparty feuds...