51. Prosecutors said that many of the conversations concerned plots by Stanfa to kill members of a rival Mafia faction in Philadelphia. 52. Rival factions in the fight over old growth forests and endangered species are expected to demonstrate outside Portland State University, site of the economic conference. 53. Rival factions, often from the same clan, are increasingly fighting one another for control of shrinking criminal enterprises. 54. Rival Palestinian factions skyjacked airliners and murdered civilians. 55. Rival Afghan factions used the city as their main battleground, firing rockets at each other from one street to the next. 56. Russian leaders have denied firing rockets at the market and have blamed the deaths on a shootout among rival Chechen factions. 57. Relations between the rival factions within the government deteriorated, and in the past three months a violent showdown became increasingly likely. 58. Reluctantly, he accepts an assignment from his mobster boss to go to Okinawa to settle a dispute between two rival factions. 59. Sabatine said he did not think that Perot was trying to keep the party out of the hands of a rival faction. 60. Since the Russian withdrawal, rival factions have been warring for control of their territories. |