Word: factionalized
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...DECADES, various indigenous factions fought to overthrow Portugese colonialism in Angola and Mozambique. In 1975, Portugal withdrew, and the elections which were supposed to forge a democratic consensus were precluded by civil war. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)--a Marxist group supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation...
...there was something inexplicable about the mass phenomenon that rescued the island nation from a failing dictatorship, enabling thousands of unarmed civilians to protect one faction of the armed forces from the other, there was no doubt when the process began. It was Aug. 21, 1983, on the tarmac at Manila international airport. On that day, Opposition Politician Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., 50, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S., was slain by a single bullet as he stepped off a jetliner into a crowd of soldiers and well-wishers. Though Marcos tried...
...highly visible band of about 100 well-trained soldiers whose aim was not to topple Marcos but to pressure him to reorganize the military. Throughout the election campaign, while Enrile publicly supported Marcos, his reformers conducted a crusade for honest voting that angered the President and the Ver faction in the military. The reformers in turn were enraged by the strong-arm methods used by the pro-Marcos forces in the vote counting, and even more by the assassination of Evelio Javier, a leading opposition figure. Nonetheless they remained inactive because they wanted to appear impartial. The military...
...West Bank's only Arab mayor, after three years of military administration ended in the city four months ago. Both Israel and neighboring Jordan strongly condemned the murder, as did a spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, the P.L.O. faction known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting. In Paris, however, a telephone caller to a Western news agency claimed responsibility for the shadowy terrorist organization headed by the notorious Abu Nidal...
SARCASM ASIDE, it's time we sided with the doctors. Despite the fact that any alteration in the status quo will alienate the legal and insurance factions, and the fact that the Massachusetts doctors have been utterly callous in their reaction, the argument of the medical faction on the malpractice insurance issue is still the most convincing one. Though its rhetoric may appear territorial, the medical plea for moderating the run-away malpractice problem is a reasonable one with comparatively egalitarian consequences...