Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ghali went to Sarajevo two years ago and called the Balkan conflict a "rich man's war," it is perfectly appropriate to call him a blithering idiot--the blame is his alone. Similarly, when U.N. envoy Akashi or U.N. General Rose talk like the Serbs are just another warring faction, rather than the aggressor, we can justifiably accuse them of moral cowardice...
...covered the white concrete walls of Gaza City during the Israeli occupation are back. Freshly scrawled slogans denounce and threaten in language as bloodcurdling as that used during the intifadeh -- only this time Palestinians are cursing one another, not Israel. RATS, RETURN TO YOUR HOLES, OR ELSE, the Fatah faction warns the more militant Hamas group, which replies, A TRAITOR IS HE WHO FIRED AT OUR PEOPLE. On another wall is the vow FATAH ZEALOTS WILL CHOP OFF THE HEADS OF CONSPIRATORS. Hamas' counterwarning: THE RETRIBUTION WILL COME WITHOUT YOU EVEN HEARING...
Arafat's spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...
...G.O.P.'s attempt to consolidate its hold on Congress and win the White House in 1996 will be determined in the struggle between the party's bomb- throwing congressional wing and its governing faction in the statehouses and mayor's offices -- both of which showed remarkable success in Tuesday's voting. To be sure, Republican conservatives will also clash with Republican moderates in Congress, like Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island and Representative Jim Leach of Iowa. But there the conservatives will win, because the moderates' numbers in both parties in Congress have been decimated by retirements and by last...
...Gingrich, are of the busybody moralistic sort. But in the statehouses, Republicans like William Weld in Massachusetts and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin are of the libertarian, problem-solving sort. The Democrats, in a division embodied in Clinton himself, are split between old-line, Big Government sorts and a faction that sees the limits of state intervention. A stable middle has yet to be established. Neither party has the leaders or the programs to transcend the need to satisfy the fire breathers on the edges. The electorate, meanwhile, veers back and forth trying to reach an equilibrium. Democrats are down, then...