Word: factionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." The "if invited" clause that the Auld Kirk faction had demanded seemed likely to scotch the visit, since by Vatican protocol the Pope invites no one. But the Pope MODERATOR CRAIG AT ST. PETER'S Over the Wall...
More fascinating even than the Czech Charleston is the country's ideological twist between Moscow and the Albania-China faction. Officially, Czechoslovakia backs Moscow, but Premier Antonin Novotny is an old Stalinist. Not only have the Czechs managed to keep on trading with Albania, but they have acted as Russia's representatives at Tirana since the Soviets severed diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Prague's huge Stalin monument, which Novotny had promised to destroy, still stands. Some Prague wags suggest a solution for that: paint the monument black and rename it the Patrice Lumumba memorial...
Frigerio clearly saw that victory would go to whichever Radical faction won the most Perónista votes; he went off to visit Per&243;n. In other elections, the ex-dictator had commanded his supporters to cast blank protest ballots; after Frigerio's visit, he ordered them to vote for Frondizi...
...Except for the Communists, no faction really wanted a serious government crisis before De Gaulle either won or definitely lost his Algerian gamble. But now France is once again open to the backbiting kind of party politicking that De Gaulle despises ("How can you govern a country that has 227 different varieties of cheeses?" he once contemptuously asked...
Land for Everyone. Kenya's bitterly divided leaders have their own proposals for a constitution after independence; their plans seem irreconcilable, yet each faction warns that, unless its ideas are accepted, the rival tribes will revert to spear and poisoned arrow in Congo-style civil war. The conflict involves Kenya's two major parties and their bosses: KANU's grey-bearded, rheumy-eyed Jomo Kenyatta, 71, and restrained Ronald Ngala, 39, president of KADU† and Kenya's leader of government business. After eight years' detention for his ringleader's role...