41.   Fair to clear skies prevailed overnight across the local area as dry high pressure dominated the region.

42.   Generally dry conditions dominated the region.

43.   High pressure from the surface to the middle levels of the atmosphere will dominate the region through the weekend to maintain the currently very stable atmosphere.

44.   High pressure across east and central Atlantic to prevail across east and northeast Caribbean through the weekend, dominating local region with fresh trade wind flow.

45.   However, Christian settlers from the central and northern Philippines now dominate the region.

46.   High pressure continued to dominate the region.

47.   How Japanese direct investors who dominate the region will react is, however, the decisive question.

48.   In a speech last month, Philippine President Fidel Ramos said the United States should maintain a strong presence in Asia to prevent China from dominating the region.

49.   It plans to turn Sri Lanka into a federation of eight regions, including a Tamil dominated region, each with wide powers to rule itself.

50.   Latin America has come a long way from the brutal military dictatorships that dominated the region for most of this century.