11.   Also aboard the plane was Mohammed Abbas, head of a militant faction in the PLO.

12.   Although they have not returned to fighting, violent clashes have erupted between government and Zapatista factions in the Indian regions of the state.

13.   And Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura commands only a tiny faction in the parliament.

14.   And so, experts say, the warring factions in Sudan are forced either to find peace or fight a much more intense war.

15.   And the United States and Europe are without a means of influencing the factions in the North African country.

16.   And, he must contend with dissenting Republican factions in California.

17.   Army Green Berets organized weapons shipments to the disparate Northern Alliance factions in the north and whatever Pashtun resistance could be organized in the south.

18.   Another was that he might have been catering to a hawkish faction in his movement that rejects the treaty.

19.   As I get it, factions in Turkey are quietly helping fellow Muslims in both Chechnya and Bosnia assert their sovereignty.

20.   As the Castro era ends, the Helms faction in Congress presses for an even tougher line.