Word: factionalized
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...they are, in fact, beaten--reduced to a few thousand representatives of a once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could wipe out a city. And no one, to my knowledge, has ever cuddled up to a stuffed microbe...
DIED. GENERAL MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID, 62, Somali faction leader; of a heart attack, a week after suffering wounds in a battle against rival warlords in Mogadishu. In 1993 a U.S.-led U.N. peacekeeping mission was marred when an effort to contain Aidid led to the death of 18 American soldiers in a battle with local militiamen...
...Marine reservist, served with U.S. forces sent to Somalia in 1992. His father was killed last Thursday. Aidid was named interim president of Somalia by his clan and promptly promised to pacify the troubled nation by eliminating his rivals. Aidid's men killed two gunmen of Ali Madhi's faction Sunday, just days after two other warlords declared a unilateral cease fire. Somalia's bloody factional battles, which have triggered mass starvation, have caused the deaths of 350,000 people since the government disintegrated in 1991. With a younger, equally agressive Aidid in power, the bloodshed is likely to continue...
Yeltsin did not link the firings to the detention of the campaign workers the night before, but others did. Reformers said the government had been split for months between a group that believed Yeltsin could win re-election and a faction led by Korzhakov that wanted to cancel the vote. Planting currency is an old KGB trick, and the hard-liners might have set up the campaign workers to embarrass the reformers; or the two men might really have been carrying foreign notes without proper documents, and the hard-liners simply seized on this infraction. In either case, they overplayed...
...Prince Naif, for example, head up the Ministries of Defense and Interior. Before they allow Fahd to pass from the scene, these men want their privileges assured. In particular, Sultan wants Abdullah to designate him the next heir apparent, his right by tradition. Says a source: "The Fahd faction is saying, 'O.K., he goes, but not until our positions are safe and secure.'" Thus Fahd's departure will be a sign that the negotiations about who holds power in the new Saudi era will have concluded...