Word: factionalized
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...Yale University in New Haven, where Cambodia was only a last-minute addition to a broad May Day protest over judicial and police treatment of Black Panthers, some 4,000 U.S. Marines and paratroopers were deployed for quick response to any violence. Contending that the Panthers and Weathermen faction of S.D.S. were moving dynamite and demolition experts into the college town, one federal official warned beforehand that there would likely be "racial violence, widespread destruction and even assassination at New Haven." An explosion did shatter glass in a Yale building, and a mild clash broke out between demonstrators and local...
...Texans it was like old times before the emergence of a viable Republican Party. The only significant elections then were the Democratic primaries, and the party could afford wingding battles over faction, ideology and personalities without fear of losing office. Now the G.O.P. holds one Texas Senate seat and has an attractive U.S. Representative running for the other. The Democrats seem not to notice. Last week they wound up an old-fashioned brawl for the Senate nomination, just as if the G.O.P. did not exist. The result, according to unofficial returns Saturday night, was defeat for incumbent Senator Ralph Yarborough...
...former Congressman, he heads a $400 million insurance company and sits on the boards of a number of banks and an oil company. Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager $200,000. Connally's mentor, Lyndon Johnson, remained officially neutral, but Bentsen had the help of several old Johnson aides, including Press Secretary George Christian...
Last Saturday a team composed of freshmen and inexperienced players trounced the Boston Minutemen, a faction of the Boston Rugby Club...
...Some of the names in the indictments constitute a Who's Who of rabid radicalism. Mark Rudd, 22, who helped organize the 1968 student protests at Columbia University and served as S.D.S. chairman there, is national secretary of the breakaway Weatherman faction. Bernardine Dohrn, 27, La Pasionaria of the lunatic left, is S.D.S.'s former interorganizational secretary; Jeffrey Jones, 22, now holds that position in the Weathermen. William Ayres, 25, is the group's educational secretary...