Word: factionalized
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Despite O'Neill's efforts, the civil rights faction feels that he has moved too slowly. In London, Bernadette made no secret of her mistrust of O'Neill: "He is not only a political hypocrite, but a particularly poor political hypocrite." The Unionists will never carry out reforms, she said, because the party survives on discrimination and "by introducing the human rights bill, it signs its own death warrant." That, of course, is indeed O'Neill's dilemma in dealing with the reactionaries in his own party-and part and parcel of Northern Ireland...
...second faction backed the position of SDS's New Left Caucus which, although it also wanted to seize a building, said that the seizure should not come until later this week or next Monday. A march on Pusey's house to present the demands should precede the seizure, they said...
Because of the repeated votes, some New Left supporters charged that the opposing faction was manipulating the meeting by voting repeatedly until their position came into the majority. Worker-Student spokesmen replied that some of those voting did not support the campaign's goal of total abolition of Harvard ROTC...
...Bhutto. He called for Ayub to resign in favor of a caretaker government, presumably to be headed by himself. Nor did Ayub's plan mollify two leading East Pakistan politicians, Sheik Mujibur Rahman and Maulana Abdul Hamid Bhashani, the 83-year-old leader of the pro-China faction of the National Awami Party...
...store magnate, who helped build I. Magnin & Co. into a 21-store chain that became the prime West Coast source of haute couture, was named president in 1944 when I. Magnin merged with Bullock's of Los Angeles, but was later eased out of office by the Bullock faction; in San Francisco...