Word: factionalized
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...same time, however, Hassan enraged the more radical Arab states. Syria broke off diplomatic relations. In West Beirut, 2,000 members of Hizballah, a militant Shi'ite Muslim faction, stormed the Moroccan embassy, routed its staff and caused extensive damage...
Among the six L.D.P. factions, several ambitious party leaders would no doubt like to replace Nakasone as Japan's Prime Minister. One of the top three contenders: Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, 62, who belongs to the large faction of ailing former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Though Tanaka was convicted in 1983 on charges of accepting a $1.6 million bribe from Lockheed in 1977, his faction remains very powerful...
Karl Heinz Beckurts knew that the terrorist Red Army Faction had marked him for death. The director of research and technology at Siemens, the West German electronics giant, he had hired security guards, barred windows and installed alarms at his villa in Strasslach, south of Munich. Last week Beckurts, 56, lost his battle against ter rorism. On his way to work, Beckurts and the driver of his gray BMW limousine were killed 875 yards from his home when a hidden roadside bomb blew the vehicle across the road and into a fence. A letter filled with Marxist jargon was found...
Despite a U.S. warrant for Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front faction of the PLO, Italian officials at first said they lacked evidence he had any role in the hijacking other than helping negotiate its end. They later issued a warrant for him but he had gone underground...
...find jobs, so they flocked here illegally. We started to negotiate with them and offered to return them to their homes and to try and find jobs for them. We spent millions and succeeded in creating thousands of jobs, but the influx became too great. We warned that factions would be killing each other before long. The faction fighting started, and now we are getting the blame...