Word: factions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek the capitulation came. It was from the presidential palace: a promise by Ruiz Cortines to revoke the fare hikes and appoint a committee including rioting students "to consider all aspects of this complex problem." Even that failed to pacify the students. They sallied out, joined a leftist faction in a street battle for control of the labor union at Pemex, the national petroleum monopoly. The students helped attack Pemex headquarters, retreated when hard-pressed police fired...
...Gurion besides Russia's. Israel's best Afro-Asian friends-especially Ghana and Burma-made their disapproval clear. Two left-wing parties in Ben-Gurion's coalition were strongly against letting Israel appear too committed to the West. Furthermore, Israel has tried to avoid backing one faction or another among Arab powers, whether Hussein or Nasser, on the ground that all are violently anti-Israel...
...fact that neither side has shown the willingness or ability to go all out, the fact that the real-estate holding of every faction has remained fairly constant since the rebellion's beginning, are signs of an urge to compromise. But the U.S. has yet to persuade Chamoun that he is not free simply to press the panic button in order to have the U.S. Marines rescue his political career (his term expires Sept. 23). If he learned that the U.S. was committed to the integrity, independence and sovereignty of Lebanon rather than to his own political fortunes, then...
Warsaw went farthest with this thesis. Over a Warsaw dateline the New York Times recently headlined that the Suslov "faction" had challenged Khrushchev's authority in May, and that Red China's Mao Tse-tung had weighed in on Suslov's side. At the bottom of all of these reports was the conviction-assiduously spread by Nehru and Tito-that Khrushchev was a "liberal" who should be encouraged because he was trying to fight more illiberal forces at home. It was a theory that Khrushchev obviously had no objection to encouraging. But it is a significant fact...
Early last week, determined to get power back into their own hands, the die-hards prepared a parliamentary mousetrap for Paratroop General Jacques Massu, who had pledged his soldierly loyalty to De Gaulle on De Gaulle's visit to Algiers a fortnight ago. By careful prearrangement, a decoy faction among the diehards noisily proposed that the junta adopt a resolution denouncing De Gaulle and all his works. When Massu, as co-president of the junta, protested, the remainder of the diehards introduced a "moderate" counter-resolution. And when the decoy faction grumblingly accepted the second resolution, Massu was convinced...