Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Gang of Four trial. According to their theory, Hua may have agreed to step down in exchange for an agreement that his damaging past associations with the "evil gang" would not surface during the trial's proceedings. More likely, Hua may have recently collided with Deng's faction over the quickening pace of de-Maoization, which Hua is known to oppose...
...when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party's broad, centrist faction. Peres, a political activist since the age of 16, was a precocious, widely traveled administrator who had been named director-general of the Defense Ministry at 29, and soon became a dominant figure in the party's right wing...
...position of Solidarity militants, who have been vying with a moderate faction for control of the union, was enhanced by last week's victory. No doubt the militants will keep urging their colleagues to take uncompromising positions in upcoming negotiations over wages and access to the press. The danger is that they will push their advantage too far, with the result that hard-liners will once again take over the Communist Party. Party moderates hope to appease the unions and please Moscow, while also looking to the West for financial help. Unhappily, that is rather like a juggler tossing...
...General Election stirred up a wind of realization that the "New Right" is upon us. Actually, this conservative faction of political independents is not a novelty, but was born in the late '60s out of a growing and passionate resentment of hyper-liberalism...
...heard the old saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat," he says. "I try in my letters to give people lots of options." But one political movement Ratliff rejects absolutely is the currently resurgent far right, especially the fundamentalist Christian "Moral Majority" faction. "I'm afraid I'm not a very tolerant person," he says--his letters fulminate against what he terms the hypocrisy of preachers like Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. And Ratliff is one adversary that knows his Scripture: "To right wing evangelicals, Jesus says, 'You call me Lord...