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Aquino's problems came into sharp focus after the bloody August mutiny of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan. The unsuccessful uprising revealed a faction-ridden military envious of Aquino's power and unwilling to give up the political clout it had gained under Marcos. The mutiny's chief blow, however, was struck at the President's almost blind faith that the democratic institutions she had restored would lead the country out of its economic and political morass. The relative serenity of her first few months in power was, after Honasan's coup attempt, reinterpreted as weakness...
...more volatile Kim Dae Jung to remain inside the party. When that plea also failed, Kim Young Sam declared that he viewed the elder Kim's defection with "extreme regret." Taking 27 of the party's 70 National Assembly members with him, Kim Dae Jung formed a new faction tentatively called the Peace and Democracy Party...
Even the leader of Cambridge's anti-rent control faction, City Councilor William H. Walsh, does not propose to eliminate controls on apartments rented to low-income, handicapped, and elderly tenants. Walsh's unsuccessful 1986 rent proposal would have set aside 30% of all rental units for the needy. Need would be assessed by a means test, similar no doubt to the annoying but sensible financial aid forms many of us fill out year after year...
Last summer Takeshita and Abe began negotiations to pool their votes on the condition that one scrap his candidacy in favor of the other. With the support of a third faction, the coalition would field a total of 231 votes. But talks bogged down. Last week three-way discussions with Miyazawa got nowhere. Meanwhile, Takeshita was well short of the 223 votes required to take the L.D.P. presidency. As party boss, the president automatically becomes Prime Minister...
Recently, the party leadership faced its most serious internal challenge ever. Led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, 53, the son of a former President, a faction insisted that the selection process be opened up. The party met the demand halfway. Instead of keeping the process secret, the party leadership made public a list of six names. Each of the candidates then fielded questions from party officials at televised breakfast meetings...