The 1977 files describe a country that was tired and riven by industrial conflict.
Mr Cobain said the UUP was "riven with personal and policy difficulties" and was "politically exhausted".
The group, although riven by internal disputes, is sponsored by the Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.
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Thailand, riven by conflict between the elected government and powerful protesters (see article) is especially vulnerable.
The Reliance group of companies has faced challenging times as a company riven by family feuds and disputes.
The surface of this snow-white moon is riven with cracks - dubbed tiger stripes - at its south pole.
Cycling was riven with doping before and during the Armstrong era and the sport itself is now thoroughly tainted.
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The process has been riven by angry disputes between Ennahda and the opposition parties, partly over Ennahda's alleged laxity towards salafis.
Meanwhile, the only overtly Islamist party, Saadet, which had previously been nibbling away at AK's pious base, is riven by internal squabbles.
In this it is hardly alone: few countries are ethnically homogeneous, and all too many are riven by ethnic or religious animosity.
Like any big organization, the Democrat Party is riven by personality clashes.
Riven since colonial times by ethnic divisions and handicapped by challenging geography, several of the Andean countries have long suffered poverty and instability.
The common market to which all countries in the region bar Panama belong has been riven by dissension since its founding in 1963.
In 1926 when the country was riven by the General Strike, Churchill wanted to take over the BBC as an instrument of propaganda.
Under his leadership, the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion have been riven by controversies over women bishops and gay clergy.
Indeed it is regularly claimed that the Tories are so riven by squabbling and serious ideological divides that they have become impossible to lead.
Outmanoeuvred by Democrats and riven by internal divisions, Republicans have virtually abandoned plans for a big tax cut (though modest tinkering is still likely).
Ecuadorean politics has long been riven by a regional cleavage, which pits Guayaquil and the coast against Quito, the capital, and the Andean highlands.
It will be seen as his job to unite a Church deeply riven by disputes about women bishops, and, more dangerously, sexuality, our correspondent adds.
The issue of gay rights has already riven the Anglican community in the United States and is anathema to most African Anglicans, the church's largest population.
Even the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, which makes most such claims, was last month riven by charges of foul play in its internal leadership contest.
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The investigation found evidence of a congregation "riven by two factions, with deeply fractured relationships emanating from the leadership of the church but also penetrating into the congregation".
Unfortunately, Sony's screen was of the acoustic type, which allows sound through from the cinema's speakers behind, and which means our close-up images are riven with tiny holes.
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Come the 1990s, the press and the public turned against the royals as they became mired in financial woes and riven by the divorce of Charles and Diana.
Under pressure from foreign forces supporting Somalia's government, and riven with disagreement over its relations with al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has been pushed out of Mogadishu into the semi-autonomous Puntland.
Mr. Obama, addressing a Congress riven by disputes over how to rein in budget deficits, rejected broad changes to Medicare, the federal health program, as some Republicans have proposed.
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Some of these issues contributed to the failure of the WTO's meeting in Seattle last year, which was riven by conflicts between rich and poor countries over free trade.
India is also riven by caste and tribal divisions.
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As the tensions between Mr Modi and his party indicate, the BJP remains riven by the internal disagreements that surfaced after the party lost power at the national level three years ago.
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