61.   This means a long wait and much frustration for the opposition factions.

62.   To appease Hamas and other opposition factions, Arafat promised an investigation and appointed six people, including three Hamas representatives, to oversee the probe.

63.   Widening its crackdown on Islamic militants, Palestinian police on Monday banned street protests and arrested the head of the most violent opposition faction.

64.   He and his supporters have clearly consolidated their grip on the Afghan capital and control more countryside than any single opposition faction.

65.   Iraqi opposition factions have launched a fresh attempt to overcome their differences and try to overthrow President Saddam Hussein, a Shiite Moslem leader said Wednesday.

66.   A major Palestinian opposition faction had stronger criticism.

67.   Abdel Shafei, who Friday night talked separately with PLO leader Yasser Arafat and opposition factions, said the deal was struck after representatives from both sides got together.

68.   Bushra joined the opposition ranks and became one of the leading military figures at the head of the National Democratic Alliance, which groups several opposition factions.

69.   But Taliban officials were quoted as saying they launched an offensive against opposition factions in the northwest of the country against northern-based opposition alliance forces.

70.   Eritrea has given shelter to Sudanese opposition factions whose aim is overthrow the government of President Omar al-Beshir.