Word: factionalized
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...John's trial began the next morning. Emotions ran high against May. "Where's your hatchet, Bishop?" shouted one Roth supporter. Roth yelled, "This is a fixed court!" The Roth faction complained that under church law the bishop named ten of the 15 judges. Moreover, Roth never testified in his own defense. He refused to appear unless he was allowed to tape-record the trial. The panel refused because church law requires secrecy...
...falling apart, but the relative positions of the occupying powers, Israel and Syria, probably remain about the same. In the south, the Israelis are continuing their painful withdrawal, while the Syrians are profiting from the activities of the Shi'ite militants. In the Christian north, a pro-Israeli faction is posing a threat. If the situation there gets any worse, the Syrians may feel obliged to rescue the Gemayel government by military means, thereby angering Syria's Lebanese Muslim allies and setting the stage for still another round of political and sectarian violence...
...last week beside a tennis court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), a faction of the rebel Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front...
...Hooker, whose kidnapping by an anti-government faction made headlines last year, warned that U.S. backed "freedom fighters"--who released him from captivity just days before his November election--are in fact threatening the welfare of his country's citizens...
...Hussein to gain standing from the P.L.O. as a Palestinians' representative, or at least temporary partner, in negotiations with Israel. But its fragility was underscored by Arafat's hasty departure from Amman to his headquarters in Tunisia, presumably to seek support for the deal from other leaders in the faction-ridden P.L.O. In 1983, after Arafat and Hussein had reached tentative agreement on a similar plan, the P.L.O. chairman was unable to cobble together the necessary backing...