1.   A fierce battle is under way for control of the National Rifle Association, with a hard-line dissident faction threatening to oust the current leadership.

2.   But Ieng Sary had an army to back him and territory under his control when he broke away from the hard-line factions.

3.   But the hard-line faction is holding out for splitting Microsoft into at least two separate units.

4.   Hard-line nationalist factions also voted against the measure almost unanimously.

5.   Hard-line factions favor a sweeping revision of privatization, including confiscation of property they say was acquired illegally or too cheaply.

6.   It is split into hard-line factions and others more inclined to compromise.

7.   Netanyahu reminded reporters that if he agrees to cede the amount of land that Albright has demanded, he must get approval from hard-line factions of his government.

8.   Omar leads the hard-line faction, as he has in the past.

9.   Outsiders worry that a hard-line faction in the government had the Jews arrested in order to generate anti-Western sentiment within Iran.

10.   Such mutinies by hard-line factions remained a possibility, they said.