Word: factionalized
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Three years ago, in the months that followed the military overthrow of President Arturo Frondizi, the country ricocheted from crisis to crisis as rival army factions fought bitterly for control. Ongania, then commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps, emerged as the muscle behind a group of enlightened officers determined to reestablish constitutional government. He sent tanks rumbling into the city and, after a series of sharp, bloody clashes, routed the army's Colorado faction, which stood for old-style, jack-booted dictatorship. Illia's peaceful election ten months later consolidated Ongania's triumph...
...Davison's most startling thesis is that Mary, far from being a party to the gunpowder plot at Kirk o'Field, was really marked to be its victim. On the basis of meticulously constructed evidence, he charges that Darnley conspired with a faction of power-hungry lords to have the gunpowder planted in the residence, then touched it off himself, believing that Mary had returned to the house. Darnley fled to the garden, and there was strangled by his fellow conspirators...
Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton and Michigan's Governor Romney have all orated for Dumont. New Jersey's Republicans-faction-ridden and critically short of funds after twelve years in the wilderness-were hopeful that the Genovese case would sweep them back into the Governor's mansion and increase the present G.O.P. preponderance in the state legislature, where all 89 seats are up for election. "This is one issue the man in the street really understands" insists Dumont...
...vulnerable for next year, there is a veritable chasm between the so-called left and right wings of the Republican Party, and some Republicans are saying, and sounding as though they meant it, that they would rather vote for Brown than for a primary-winning Republican of the other faction. In New York City, Conservative William Buckley now figures to get about 12% of this year's vote for mayor, a considerable part of it at the expense of Republican and Liberal Party Candidate John Lindsay. Michigan's Governor George Romney, who refused to support Goldwater...
...Federalist No. 10, Madison wrote that "liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life." Historically, such liberty could have led to splinter-party chaos; the U.S. instead channeled the political urge into two institutionalized parties. In their adversary relationship, they act as delicate checks upon one another, capitalizing on the deep American fear of unrestrained power. Though few voters would...