Clashes among resistance factions dramatize the moral costs of war as well.

The story involves the town of Kabuki-cho, home of a resistance faction called Messiah.

Others, who ended up in the camps run by the two other resistance factions, fare somewhat better (box, page 27).

The resistance factions will observe Israel's behavior on the ground and will act accordingly.

The legislation would explicitly prohibit American assistance to the Khmer Rouge, which is the strongest of the three resistance factions.

Yet German Communists and their Marxist allies were among the first to challenge Hitler from within - indeed, no resistance faction endured more executions.

Many of the soldiers have families held hostage in the refugee camps along the Thai border, but so do the two other, much less effective, resistance factions.

Of the three Cambodian resistance factions, the Khmer Rouge is by far the best organised.

"I was able to get safe passage for these doctors," said Ellen, who convinced the five major Palestinian resistance factions to meet.

The U.S. view might be more persuasive if there were some prospect of military success or political unity on the part of resistance factions.