Word: factionalized
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...power toward Aidid's enemies, rather than improved the chances for a political settlement. The peacekeepers inflicted more damage on Aidid than his opponents ever did, and they gleefully cheered the blue helmets on. The ferocity of the intervention may also have cast the U.N. as one more faction in the conflict...
...have more than one group affiliation they care about--so they won't end up fracturing into single autonomous groups with opposing interests. As long as a single religious group doesn't populate one economic stratum, for example, religion and class can't combine to create a single warring faction...
PUBLICLY, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN HAS REjected a proposal, backed by a faction within his Cabinet, that Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip before reaching an agreement with the Palestinians on arrangements for the West Bank. But a Palestinian leader has told TIME the plan is being discussed in secret talks between the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Such an agreement may run into a snag named YASSER ARAFAT. The P.L.O. chief favors the deal only if he gets to head the Palestinian administration that would replace Israeli authorities in the Strip...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...
...Executive Board's prerogative which is unprecedented in my four years on the council. The Executive Board is given the power to set the docket to ensure that resolutions can be considered in a timely fashion and that meetings are not overly long. In this case, a small faction of the council was improperly attempting to use that pozwer to dictate the council's political agenda...