Word: factionalized
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Arafat was just as eager to comply. On Monday evening, one of his closest advisers, Hani el-Hassan, already was in Egypt. He was soon joined by Abul Abbas, leader of the pro-Arafat faction of the P.L.F. The heavyset Abbas, 40, was born in Haifa and educated in Damascus; a former airline hijacker himself, Abbas rates high on many Western lists of most-wanted terrorists. In 1977, Abbas helped to found the P.L.F. as a breakaway group from the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command...
There hasn't been anything like an organized faction in the council since the short-lived "freshman caucus," which died out towards the end of the government's first year. Today's council is clearly a cohessive group, a group ment, and drafting the reports and holding the meetings which being a government entails...
Noting that the terrorists belong to a faction that opposes P.L.O. leader Yassir Arafat, Mylroie said the hijacking was likely intended to sabotage peace negotiations currently underway between Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein...
Along similar lines, Assistant Professor of History Zachary Lockman, a specialist in modern Middle Eastern history, said that the Palestinian Liberation Front "wants to undermine Yassir Arafat by attacking Italy, a country with which the Arafat faction has had good relations...
...everyone in the Administration, however, shares Weinberger's--and Reagan's--unalloyed enthusiasm for Star Wars. The latest Soviet offer could have the effect of strengthening the faction inside the Administration that still hopes to obtain an important arms agreement. Reagan wants that as well, if he can somehow reconcile that goal with his desire for an effective defense against nuclear attack...