Control of Frontera Foods would be split down the middle, against the advice of their lawyers, who thought someone should be in charge.

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Sometimes when all three of us were talking to sources I thought my head was going to split open.

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The group was then split into Algerians and foreign workers, and Mr Wright thought they had walked into the hands of the militants.

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Some thought the split between Mr Fujimori and Mr Montesinos was real, and pointed to the arrest this week of a handful of apparently pro-Montesinos officers.

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