Word: leaderlessness
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...decision, Botha's government has lauched an unprecedented crackdown on leaders of internal dissent movements--especially more moderate leaders. As increasing numbers of committed non-violent dissenters are silenced, the regime has made it virtually certain that the country will see more deaths arising from leaderless chaos in the townships, or from the direction of a group of frustrated, more radical young leaders...
...hold 61 of 96 seats, reflecting their 66% election majority. The remainder are divided among six small parties that are described as opposition but that often vote with the Sandinistas. The main opposition group outside the legislature, the Coordinadora Democratica Nicaraguense, refused to participate in the election and remains leaderless and in disarray. In any case, the work of the Assembly is largely peripheral. Under a constitutional state of emergency declared in 1982 in response to the contra threats, almost all important decisions are enacted by presidential decree...
Another activist who wished to remain unnamed says, "what's going on at Brown is a groundswell, leaderless and structureless." He adds, "things happen spontaneously. In hallways around campus there are more and more conversations," about issues...
FOOTNOTE: *James Monroe, the first President-elect faced with a Sabbath Inaugural Day, decided to wait until Monday, leaving the nation technically leaderless for a few hours. Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office on a Sunday in 1917 in a private ceremony but staged a formal Inaugural for public consumption the next day. So did Dwight Eisenhower...
...road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war. Palestine's native Arabs were panicky, almost leaderless...