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...November. At the same time, under pressure from the U.S., Schmidt also announced a 1.75% increase in defense spending. Suddenly faced with the prospect of frozen welfare spending and cuts in foreign aid and environmental programs, some 50 leftist deputies in the normally well-disciplined 218-member Social Democratic faction in the Bundestag broke ranks. Their rebellion threatened to undermine Schmidt's 45-seat parliamentary majority...
...founding fathers recognized and denounced the "spirit of faction." That spirit has always existed in our highly contentious nation; the broad consensus that supposedly prevailed in earlier days is largely a nostalgic illusion. We will never turn into a republic of virtue, animated by perfect brotherhood. We are too large, too varied, too free and too human for that. But in the past at least we usually managed to rule ourselves through rough accommodation, based on the recognition that while I may subdue my neighbor on one issue today, he may subdue me on another tomorrow. The founders thought...
...asked why I should go along with him, the only reason he could offer me was that be thought he was the best candidate and wanted to win--and that it was absolutely essential to keep control of the club out of the hands of the Eliot House faction. For the droves of Q-World people and the many Democrats (It's an even but that there were as many Democrats as Republicans at Boylston Auditorium that night) who participated in the election, this was reason enough. Carina Campobasse...
Whoever wins the struggle will ultimately have to face a stiff challenge from the far left, whose various factions have thousands of trained guerrillas under arms. The best organized of the leftist groupings are the pro-Moscow Communists, led by the Tudeh Party and including a faction of the guerrilla organization Fadayan-e-Khalq. So far, these groups have opposed Banisadr, whom they suspect of being pro-Western. Instead, they have pretended to support the mullahs, whose bungling feeds the popular discontent necessary for an eventual Communist takeover. Former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told TIME last week...
According to Chinese sources, the final verdict had been delayed by wrangling within Peking's top leadership over whether or not to spare Jiang's life. The end of the long trial caps the orchestrated purge of China's once powerful, Mao-inspired radical faction. The trial was, in fact, largely an act of vengeance by the officials currently in power, most of whom had been purged during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Fittingly enough, the widows of several of the top leaders who did not survive the violence of that upheaval were in the audience...