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There was an additional factor in the mayor's rise. The leadership in Beijing was bitterly divided over whether Deng's economic reforms should continue, and a strong faction was already slowing them down. Jiang had a usefully malleable view: he was called "the Weathervane" for astute shifts in stance that made him acceptable to both sides...
...KILLERS? Most of the butchery is blamed on the Armed Islamic Group, an extremist splinter faction. Islamists claim that to sabotage any compromise, hard-liners in the military-backed regime have supported some of the attacks. Unemployment topping 35% has helped produce nihilistic young thugs prepared to slaughter. Last week the Salvation Front declared a truce, but the killing is unlikely...
Grigory Yavlinsky, a 1996 Russian presidential candidate and leader of the Yabloko faction of the Russian State Duma, spoke last night before a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government's Starr Auditorium...
Last August, when SADDAM'S tanks crushed the Iraqi National Congress and blew apart a CIA support operation, embarrassed U.S. officials blamed INC infighting. True, a Kurdish INC faction did invite the dictator back into northern Iraq's no-go zone. But documents obtained by TIME suggest that by failing to match tough words with tough deeds, the U.S. helped bring on the rout...
Such mixed signals, Chalabi believes, caused fatal disillusionment and dissension. In the month before Saddam's assault, the Kurdistan Democratic Party wrote four letters to State Department and National Security Council officials asking Washington to condemn an Iranian incursion and attacks by a Kurdish rival faction. In its final missive, the K.D.P. warned of the "only option" left: turning to Saddam...