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...former French colony, Laos drifted into independence after World War II, under the custody of a fractious royal family. The two chief rivals: Prince Souvanna Phouma, who became Premier, and his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong, who became a follower of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and headed the guerrilla Pathet Lao. Fighting between their forces continued fitfully for years, and the war in neighboring Viet Nam turned dreamy little Laos into a strategic battleground, a Communist sanctuary and supply route between North and South...
...indiscretion sound like a platitude." It was a forgivable flaw. But it prevented Pearson, while head of Canada's Liberal Party, from ever winning a majority in Parliament. It also helped make his term as Prime Minister (from 1963 to 1968) one of the most boisterous and fractious in Canadian history. Yet even before he died last week of cancer in Ottawa, at the age of 75, "Mike" Pearson had acquired recognition and respect as an authentic Canadian statesman...
...much of their six-year history, the Black Panthers wandered in a wilderness of violence, both rhetorical and real. They packed guns and often sounded eager to use them. Yet that fractious history was nowhere evident recently in Oakland, Calif., as a neatly dressed candidate for mayor listened intently to an integrated group of elderly voters. They were complaining about muggers and purse snatchers. "I know the roughness in this community," the candidate replied. "My own mother's purse has been stolen. I plan to offer a program to stop muggings and prevent this constant preying on the elderly...
...Pacific during World War II, then returned to New York to rise in union influence, volunteering for any assignment that came along. When he was elected president of the construction trades council in 1957, he turned a no-show job into a powerful one, mediating disputes among the fractious New York locals. At the end of tough, bruising squabbles, exasperated union bosses would turn to Brennan. "Awright Pete," one would say. "Whaddya want...
...Hell." His nickname on campus is "Tiger," and with his gravel voice and fondness for four-letter words, he can and does talk tough to both labor and management. Having spent many of his 58 years studying unions, he knows as much as anyone in the nation about the fractious construction industry...