61.   It was built on a manmade islet west of outlying Lantau island by flattening two uninhabited islets and pushing back the sea.

62.   Local telephone service had been restored on much of the island by Sunday, although long-distance was not available.

63.   Menem has vowed to recover the islands by diplomatic means.

64.   Nauru got rich by selling phosphates, deposited on the Pacific island by migrating birds over thousands of years, for fertilizer.

65.   Naxos is well-connected to other Greek islands by inexpensive ferries.

66.   Other patches of clouds and showers will be transported west over the islands by the moderate easterly trade winds, producing intermittent periods of clouds and showers.

67.   Premier Lien Chan plans to visit Europe in June in another move by Taiwan to break the diplomatic isolation imposed on the island by China, newspapers reported Sunday.

68.   Prompted by the flight of several garment factories lured off the island by NAFTA benefits, the government announced Tuesday measures designed to prevent others from following suit.

69.   Rwandan troops took journalists to the island by boat on Wednesday and on the way discovered two men floating on a raft of banana tree trunks.

70.   She was treated by doctors on Mustique and left the island by plane Tuesday for Barbados, a larger island, where she is being hosptalized to undergo tests.