As the siege dragged on, there were signs of deepening division among the Taliban in Kunduz.
PAGE 10 Ulster's Protestant Split David Trimble was re-elected to lead the Ulster Unionist Party, but the vote indicated a deepening division within Northern Ireland's largest Protestant party over sharing power with the Catholic minority.
Although the result ensured his spot at the top of the province's largest party for another year, it also indicated deepening division over going forward with the April 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement and sharing power with the Catholic minority.
A dispute between Britain and France has prompted President Jacques Chirac to back out of a traditional year-end meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair amid mutual pledges to assert national goals even at the risk of deepening division.
The meeting broke up without any decision, according to senior officials, amid signs of a deepening division between those who advocate sending Mr. Assad a harsh message and those who argue that military action now would be reckless and ill timed.
The deepening division between rich and poor (or salary between chief executive and blue-collar worker), the continuing appeal of affirmative action and multiculturalism to liberals and the relative absence of democratic social foresight and planning all pointed to basic and unresolved dilemmas.
