Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week beside a tennis court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), a faction of the rebel Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front...
...Hooker, whose kidnapping by an anti-government faction made headlines last year, warned that U.S. backed "freedom fighters"--who released him from captivity just days before his November election--are in fact threatening the welfare of his country's citizens...
...Hussein to gain standing from the P.L.O. as a Palestinians' representative, or at least temporary partner, in negotiations with Israel. But its fragility was underscored by Arafat's hasty departure from Amman to his headquarters in Tunisia, presumably to seek support for the deal from other leaders in the faction-ridden P.L.O. In 1983, after Arafat and Hussein had reached tentative agreement on a similar plan, the P.L.O. chairman was unable to cobble together the necessary backing...
...French police, who have yet to make an arrest in the Audran killing, there was no question that West Germany's Red Army Faction and Action Directe have combined forces into what amounts to a single organization. Said a French official: "There were occasional instances of technical assistance before. The difference now is the tightening of cooperation on a common strategy, with Western defense organizations as primary targets. That has changed the picture entirely...
...accent whether her father was home. The French terrorists seem to take pains to identify themselves with their West German counterparts. After Audran's assassination, for example, Action Directe attributed the killing to what it called "the Elizabeth von Dick Commando," named for a member of the Red Army Faction killed by West German police seven years...