Word: factionalized
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Students understand that they are not a majority, but many students see the system as controlled by a majority faction which will give the minority neither rights nor power. They see the figures of authority continually discredited by their acts and by their lack of action, by the police riot in Chicago, by their unwillingness to extricate themselves quickly from the war, by the attempt to reincarcerate Eldridge Cleaver, by the brutality of the police at the Columbia demonstrations, by the selection of a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President who was neither the choice of the people...
Edward Kennedy is a politician. He is faced with a youthful faction within the constituency to which he is appealing which wants to change the system. Their form of protest is new and often times ellegitimate. It must be met with action by the authorities...
...Guards complains that his faction at Kwangsi University has been under siege for several months with nothing to eat. Chou sneers: How is it that you have nothing to eat? Haven't you seized other people's food stores...
Similarly, the French party, which is the Continent's second largest Communist group, has split with Moscow for the first time in its history. One result is that the party, which has a strong Stalinist tradition, has itself split into pro-Moscow and pro-Czechoslovak factions. After bitter quarrels over policy, the symbolic leader of the hard-line faction last week quit the party. She is Madame Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, the 58-year-old widow of the party's longtime leader, Maurice Thorez, sometimes known in party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper...
...police knew the identity of their enemy: four splinter groups in Zengakuren, the faction-ridden Japanese student federation. The vast majority of Zengakuren members, including the Communists, stayed away from the riots. Those who did riot, like the New Left everywhere, regard the Communists as bourgeois and politically backward and consider themselves the "conscience of the nation." $1,000,000 Damages. As the battle for Shinjuku station wore on through the night, the Public Safety Commission held an emergency session and ordered the imposition of the antiriot law, which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail. Previously, rioters...