1.   The original Bluetooth brought previously warring factions into an enduring nation.

2.   Portugal is concerned that an abrupt Indonesian withdrawal could create a power vacuum and suck the East Timorese factions into a civil war.

3.   James F. Dobbins, the veteran U.S. diplomat who helped steered rival Afghan factions into an interim government, will reopen the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

4.   The agreement brought four Cambodian factions into a Supreme National Council.

5.   The sectarian violence that wracked Karachi earlier this year had subsided after March, when Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto pushed the warring factions into an agreement.

6.   The sectarian violence that had wracked Karachi earlier this year had subsided after March when Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto pushed the warring factions into an agreement.

7.   He was reacting to the announcement on Saturday of an agreement in principle to the peaceful integration of a breakaway Khmer Rouge faction into the Cambodian government.