51.   Even the notion that Lebanon is an independent state remains mostly an illusion.

52.   ETA has accused the European Union of ignoring the Basque demand for an independent state.

53.   For all his eloquence, Kozyrev represents a less than unified ministry often excluded when big decisions are made, especially about the newly independent states.

54.   For Arafat, it is the final quest of his dream to declare an independent state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital.

55.   For Bosnian Serb leaders, Western officials say, the return of any Muslim refugee is a challenge to their independent state.

56.   For independent states to cede such power to a super-bank and super-currency is unprecedented.

57.   Forces in Russia have waged a campaign of subversion, intimidation and economic blackmail against other independent states of the former Soviet Union.

58.   For Palestinians as well, daily life is more stable, but their dreams of an independent state are dimming.

59.   For Palestinians, the point is getting land, and eventually an independent state.

60.   From Italy, Arafat lamented that if Rabin were alive today, Palestinians would already have their independent state.