Word: factionalized
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...ranting is a form of verbal fanaticism, and other cultures often do it better. The Middle East today is to ranting what Elizabethan England was to theater: the cradle of geniuses. Every faction and tribe has its Shakespeare of denunciation, from the Ayatullah on down. Communist bloc countries have bureaucratically institutionalized ranting. The East German government once issued a list of approved terms of abuse for speakers describing the British: "paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators...
...their respects. People burned stacks of an Urdu-language newspaper that suggested Shahnawaz may have died from alcohol and drugs. In Sind province, most business came to a standstill. Some defied the ban on entering Sind for the funeral rites. Said Malik Mohammed Qasim, secretary-general of one faction of the Pakistan Muslim League: "To attend a funeral is the basic right of a citizen, and to prevent a Muslim from doing so is un-Islamic." The struggle between Zia and the Bhutto family is evidently far from over...
...after the blast news organizations in West Germany received a 2½ page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
...alleged involvement, and he ordered all government ministries to cooperate fully. Declared the President: "If responsibility is proved, the guilty, at whatever level they find themselves, should be severely punished." The French intelligence agency denied official involvement in the attack, but other government insiders speculate that a maverick faction could have acted without high-level approval...
...tacit admission that his tentative reforms over the past two years have been less than successful. His white constituents, the majority of them Afrikaners, whose African roots go back to the landing of Dutch settlers in Cape Town in 1652, are more split than ever. A verligte (enlightened) faction, which forms a significant part of Botha's ruling National Party, is aware that some form of political accommodation with blacks must come eventually. A verkrampte (literally "cramped," or hard-line) breakaway group is determined to keep things as they are, if by sjambok and shotgun. At the same time...