Word: factionalized
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...that is not wholly new. The notion that in the past the U.S. was somehow a united community is a nostalgic illusion. The founders warned of the dangers of "faction." Even on the frontier, the pioneers fought not just the Indians but one another. Interests fought other interests. Regions fought other regions. Industrialization brought bloodletting between bosses and labor. But despite battles that in other countries would have wrecked social and political systems, the U.S. usually managed to find some accommodation that satisfied nobody but, in the end, proved workable...
...Tunisian, as secretary-general of the 21-member Arab League; he had been heavily criticized for balking at Egyptian attempts to get the league to authorize the sending of Arab troops to defend Saudi Arabia. Some observers speculate that the league may split in two: an anti-Saddam faction based in Cairo and a pro-Saddam grouping based in Tunis. That might be all to the good; it would leave the moderates free to pursue their own interests without the necessity of trying to reach some sort of consensus with Saddam's supporters...
Another warning of terrorist attacks came from the leader of a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abul Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Front, told the American news network CNN that his group could launch attacks "if the United States initiates the attack on the Arab people...
...stepped-up campaign beyond the borders of Northern Ireland, assassinated Ian Gow, a friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a Conservative Member of Parliament, with a bomb that wrecked his Montego car in the driveway of his home. Three days earlier in West Germany, the Red Army Faction almost succeeded in killing Hans Neusel, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry and Bonn's top antiterrorist expert, in a similar attempt. The actions demonstrated that while their numbers may be dwindling, both the I.R.A. and the R.A.F. do not need popular support, or even broadly based groups of sympathizers...
...comparison with the I.R.A., which thanks to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi remains well armed, West Germany's Red Army Faction is modestly equipped. The group's ranks are divided, and it is demoralized by the loss of the sanctuary that was offered to terrorists until a year ago by the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. Still, the R.A.F.'s hard-core leadership of 15 to 20 people retains considerable destructive force. Over the past five years the R.A.F., a successor to the feared Baader-Meinhof gang, has attempted to assassinate six leading West German figures -- and succeeded four times. Eight...