41.   Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk was so dismayed by attempts at religious coercion that he proposed this week, only partly in jest, to split the country.

42.   Its tactics have split Western countries deliberating on whether to criticize China at the commission.

43.   Muslim countries were split over whether to condemn Palestinian suicide bombers as terrorists Monday at the start of a major international Islamic conference on terrorism.

44.   Nationalists members of the governing coalition and the military fear that the broadcasts could split the country along ethnic lines.

45.   Rebels say they fought for more ethnic Albanian rights but Macedonians contend rebels wanted to split the country.

46.   Russia and China protested Thursday that indicting Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes in Kosovo hampered peace prospects, and split NATO countries.

47.   The country was equally split on who should be the next president.

48.   The Bosnian Serbs have repeatedly rejected an international peace proposal that would roughly split the country between the Serbs and a Muslim-Croat federation.

49.   The country is split down the middle on the issue of peace with the Arab neighbors.

50.   The case threatens to split the country along racial lines.