61.  The congress laid the foundations for the modern state of Israel.

62.  The foundation of Israel as a modern state is fittingly celebrated this week.

63.  The unhappy and fragmenting Republic of Central America was soon to be divided into the modern states of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras.

64.  The Yalda feast marking the longest night of the year predates Islam and the modern state of Iran.

65.  The war also allowed Japan to become the first non-European or non-American imperialist modern state.

66.  They include the founders of the modern Greek state and ancient athletes.

67.  While many Chileans want Pinochet punished, others, especially in the military, see him as having saved Chile from communism and helped found the modern Chilean state.

68.  Zionism is the movement behind the founding of the modern state of Israel.

69.  An Indonesian pro-democracy group Thursday said that the current political climate of suspicion and divisiveness in the country is not conducive to building a modern constitutional state here.

70.  Under his reign, the UAE was converted from scattered desert oases into a modern state.