11.   The attacks, the junta says, are being carried out by a breakaway faction of the Karen, a large ethnic group along the Thai-Burmese border.

12.   The law also provides the Russian Orthodox Church with a valuable weapon against breakaway factions.

13.   The polls suggest that any rival party or breakaway faction would face a formidable task challenging the African National Congress.

14.   The Russian Orthodox Church, for its part, has made clear that it views the Free breakaway faction as little more than squatters.

15.   The West Belfast Nationalist member of Parliament, Joe Hendron, said he believed the bomb may have been placed by a breakaway faction of the IRA.

16.   They said the amnesty and a guarantee of safety would apply to all the guerrillas in his breakaway faction, which has been negotiating a truce with the government.

17.   Those in the breakaway faction, they said, are mostly ethnic Pashtuns.

18.   Toan Chhay, a member of Parliament who led a breakaway faction from the party in April, accusing the prince of incompetence, has said he would serve.

19.   Past peace efforts have met with little success because they have dealt only with breakaway factions of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army, rather than the main fighting group.

20.   A breakaway faction of the Communist Refoundation already has given him its blessing.