Word: splintering
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...parliament approved a package of constitutional amendments aimed at improving ethnic Albanian rights, ending weeks of wrangling over a Western-backed peace accord. Mediators hope the changes will defuse the seven-month-old crisis that began when Albanian rebels attacked police posts along the Kosovo border. But a splinter group of rebels calling themselves the Albanian National Army remained in control of several villages and warned security forces not to enter. The group claimed responsibility for the killing of three policemen earlier in the week. ALGERIA Disastrous Toll Security forces moved in to protect government buildings in Algiers as furious...
When Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams last week announced that decommissioning would happen, he made sure he had the public backing of notable I.R.A. leaders, including those who had risked death and jail to smuggle in the guns. But other republicans were angered by the I.R.A. reversal. A splinter group, the Continuity I.R.A., said it was "the ultimate act of betrayal." Adams conceded that some of his supporters were in tears. For them, the decommissioning of I.R.A. weapons came as a bitter pill in the often painful business of making peace. But there was no question that it pushed Northern...
...Zeevi had been one of the more extreme politicians on the Israeli right, openly favoring the mass expulsion of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza and opposing any renewed dialogue. And he was assassinated by a tiny leftist splinter group equally opposed to resuming talks. Both Zeevi and his killers had occupied the political fringes. But the fringes on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, these days, have moved dangerously close to the mainstream...
...place to fight." The overwhelming bulk of the movement in Aceh is led by Abdullah Syafi, a 45-year-old graduate of a Banda Aceh school of Islamic jurisprudence. Syafi recognizes the leadership-in-exile of aged GAM-founder di Tiro and his deputies. But there is also a splinter group known as the Government Council of the Free Aceh Movement, or MP-GAM in its Indonesian acronym. Led from Europe by Husaini Hasan, the MP-GAM has declared itself opposed to armed struggle and favors some form of autonomy within Indonesia. Jakarta has raised a force of several hundred...
...Police transported a resident of Cabot House to University Health Services for treatment of a large splinter in her buttocks...