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...ninth city councilor, Alfred E. Vellucci, aligns himself with neither group, making it more difficult for either faction to gain a five-vote majority on any issue...
Laurie Mylroie, a government instructor andassistant director of the Center for MiddleEastern Studies, said that what is left in Iran is"a revolutionary core" and that the Americangovernment was "working with the Khomeini regimeand not a moderate faction...
...death followed a series of murders of well-known European military and industrial leaders by indigenous terrorist organizations. In January 1985 Action Directe claimed responsibility for the death of General Rene Audran, a prominent French Ministry of Defense official. Days later, members of the West German Red Army Faction murdered Ernst Zimmermann, a Munich defense industrialist. Some experts believe the atrocities are linked, and point to a communique the two groups issued last year declaring they would form a "West European guerrilla movement." Last week French authorities were investigating a possible West German connection to the Besse slaying...
...most part, the Volcker faction has gone along with the Reaganites' contention that the economy needs some juice. "There is a broad consensus on monetary policy on the board right now," says Johnson. For the past three months the governors have let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual rate -- much faster than the 3%-to-8% target range that the Fed originally set for this year. That accommodating policy has allowed the growth rate in the gross national product to bounce up from .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the July-September period...
Perhaps the toughest task before the new Senate majority will be speaking in a unified voice. There may be a skirmish for the soul of the party between the Kennedy-Cranston Old Guard and a neoliberal faction led by such Senators as Joe Biden of Delaware and Georgia's Sam Nunn. The Democrats have historically been a party of competing factions. Sometimes, as when Southern segregationists of old were filibustering the civil rights legislation of their Northern colleagues, there has been open warfare. The struggle this time around will be more subdued...