Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more conservative, Independent faction of the city council could also try to get one of its four councilors elected as mayor, observers...
...CERTAIN extent, this and similar terrorist actions have succeeded in dividing America. In 1979, too many critics of President Carter charged that support for the Shah of Iran and lack of respect for religious beliefs in that country had alienated the Moslem faction, percipitating the Irannian hostage crisis. In 1985, critics are charging that unflagging support for Israel has given Middle Eastern religious sects no means save terrorism in their struggle for freedom. These critics often characterize American involvement in the region as motivation for the violence there. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...most troubling aspects of the plight of Flight 847 was that it was the third hijacking that occurred in the region within three days last week, and the second apparently engineered by Lebanese Shi'ites. In earlier times, Arab skyjackers tended to be Palestinians, from one or another faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, attempting to advance or at least dramatize the Palestinian cause. The politicization of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim community is one of the most significant and most troubling consequences of the Israeli invasion...
...firepower than the rebels. Since April the Sandinistas have kept the contras on the run, pushing them north over the Honduran border and south into Costa Rica. Last month Nicaraguan troops actually drove about three miles into Honduras and shelled Las Vegas, the base camp of the largest contra faction, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). The contras lack even the guerrillas' traditional element of surprise: Sandinista spies have thoroughly infiltrated rebel camps...
...Israeli exchange had been elaborately orchestrated. Negotiations had gone on for 16 months between Israel and a small faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Through the protracted bargaining, former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had served as an intermediary. Finally, at dawn last Monday, a dozen buses carrying 394 Arab prisoners drove to Ben-Gurion International Airport, outside Tel Aviv, where the men boarded three Israeli air force jet transports for Geneva. At approximately the same hour, the three Israeli prisoners took off from Damascus, the capital of Syria. On arrival in Geneva, the Arab prisoners remained aboard the Israeli planes...