71.   An explosion destroyed four rooms of a government office in a remote northeastern region where guerrillas are fighting for a separate state, an official said Tuesday.

72.   Any move to create a separate state within Bosnia would have violated the peace accord.

73.   Ardzinba reiterated demands that Abkhazia be regarded as a separate state.

74.   Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province and objects strongly to Taiwanese leaders traveling abroad and behaving like representatives of a separate state.

75.   Boban was among the most fervent supporters of a separate Croat state in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

76.   Bosnian Serbs proclaim separate state.

77.   Beyond that, there are also sound financial incentives for independence, supporters say, and both Serbia and Montenegro would benefit if they become separate states.

78.   Bosnian Croat soldiers deserted by the hundreds Wednesday, obeying calls from hard-liners trying to carve away a piece of Bosnia and set up a separate Croat state.

79.   Bosnian Muslims suspect Croatia of backing Bosnian Croat hard-liners wanting a separate state.

80.   Both are Muslim rebel groups still fighting the government in an effort to establish a separate Islamic state in the southern Philippines.