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...never any doubt as to who spoke for the N.A.A.C.P. Many blacks attribute the organization's current impotence to a struggle for power between Hooks and Margaret Bush Wilson, 63, a St. Louis lawyer who heads the N.A.A.C.P. board. "On almost every issue there is a pro-Hooks faction and a pro-Wilson faction," says one board member. Wilson denies that there is any such rivalry ("Ben and I are both capable") or that she wants...
Peronism is now a splintered movement, but its various branches all endorse some blend of nationalism and populist welfarism. One faction still supports Isabelita Peron, now in her own exile in Madrid. If the party is indeed permitted to operate openly, the question is not just whether the Peronists will be able to overcome their differences and win the electoral majority they claim. It is also whether the military will accept such an outcome...
...Israelis want a new Lebanese government dominated by the faction with which they feel most comfortable: the right-wing Christian Phalange, led by the Gemayel family. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner who planned and directed the sweep into Lebanon, has even envisaged turning the country into a Phalangist-controlled state. Other Israeli officials, however, are more flexible and see the necessity for forming a broad coalition of all significant Lebanese political groups?including the Muslim leftists led by Walid Jumblatt, head of the so-called National Movement, which has been loosely allied with the P.L.O...
Reagan and his aides discussed on Wednesday whether to reply to the Soviet challenge and decided not to do so. The winning faction, led by National Security Adviser William Clark, felt that a reply, which could only have been a rejection, would have permitted the Soviets to dictate the terms of the disarmament debate. Nonetheless, many U.N. delegates were disappointed that Reagan did not discuss the first-use question...
...small, willful faction of Saturday's crowd planned on Monday to "blockade the bombmakers," shutting down for a day the U.N. offices of major nuclear powers. More typical of the galliers Saturday were concerned mainstreamers like New York Mayor Edward Koch. Said he: "It's terrific to try to affect the conscience of the world. It's just regrettable they don't have a similar demonstration in MOSCOW." - By Kurt Andersen. Reported ?. White and Adam Zagorin/New York