Word: factionalized
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...more bloodshed in the occupied territories. Already the moderate elements of the P.L.O. have been hit hard. Chairman Yasser Arafat has managed to lose both the backing of his wealthy Arab patrons (for supporting Saddam) and that of the street (for not supporting Saddam enough). Last week Arafat's faction suffered a crushing blow when a Palestinian, apparently working for P.L.O. dissident Abu Nidal, assassinated Abu Iyad, the organization's No. 2 leader, and Abu Hol, its chief of internal security...
...subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who says that "some upscale white suburban voters can easily be repulsed by the Helms approach...
...think that the next session of the Communist Party Congress, scheduled for April, will bring change. We know that there are deep divisions, and if the younger reform faction fails -- I don't believe it will -- then there would be an open party quarrel. Most of the army commanders and most of the province leaders are with the reform faction...
...says the antiwar faction, Saddam can be turned back without war, by persistence in the embargo. If only that were true! All too probably, those who make this argument are deluding themselves. Far more likely, if Iraq is still occupying Kuwait next Aug. 2, a year after the invasion, much of the world will conclude that Saddam has won. The embargo will begin leaking badly; nation after nation will start casting around for a diplomatic solution; Washington itself will be under growing pressure to bring G.I.s home from Saudi Arabia where they will have been "sitting around in the sand...
...impact on her country's social problems. But she rose to prominence chiefly because of the swiftness of the East German revolution and its need for new people without Communist ties to take over government jobs. The CDU urged her to run for parliament last March, and when her faction won the most seats, she was named president...