Though reclusive, he is an astute and ruthless political tactician who kept an iron grip on the factious MPLA Party which has governed since the Southwest African country's independence.
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For their part, the Western Europeans stressed that EU membership hinges on ethnic reconciliation _ no simple task in a region that has been Europe's most factious for centuries.
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Arguing that this exempted him from the traditional two-term limit, Milosevic stood for re-election, gambling that the factious Serbian opposition would fail again to challenge him successfully.
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Despite the stepped up attacks, the opposition northern alliance _ a factious coalition made up mostly of minority Tajiks and Uzbeks _ has been unable to score major gains on the ground.
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But these weapons for delay are given to the minority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character; and they can be used against the majority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character.
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But these weapons for delay are given to the minority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character; and they can be used against the majority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character.
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Rising social tensions are expected to make it more difficult for De la Rua to push 2002's austerity budget slashing an extra dlrs 4 billion in public spending through a factious Congress.
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The strategy is to pressure the ethnic Albanians to unite their own factious community and force all parties to the negotiating table to prevent the violence here from exploding by spring, as widely feared.
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The Albanian government has invited various Kosovo Albanian leaders to Tirana for talks aimed at unifying the factious community before hoped-for talks with the Serb government on the future of the majority Albanian province.
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Those incidents reflect the difficulties faced by U . S . soldiers in trying to maintain order in this factious country, still reeling from the effects of decades of dictatorship, war and international sanctions.
