71.   Showers are expected to be widespread throughout the island by tomorrow afternoon.

72.   She was treated there and left the island by plane Tuesday for Barbados, a larger island, where she was hospitalized for tests.

73.   Taiwan has been careful not to become too dependent on the market in China, which has never renounced threats to retake the island by force.

74.   The anniversary coincided with a visit to the island by a senior U.S. State Department official, Carey Cavanaugh, who is renewing talks on reunifying the island.

75.   The cash-strapped Pacific republic of Kiribati plans to lure Chinese business people and their money to a tiny isolated island by selling them temporary passports.

76.   The announcement, which meets some of the demands by Corsican nationalists, took officials on the island by surprise.

77.   The Brothers to the Rescue planes were patrolling the area to help Cubans fleeing the communist island by boat.

78.   The decision appeared to be in response to strong U.S. pressure for a moratorium on flights over the divided island by Greek and Turkish warplanes.

79.   The Dayaks are fighting immigrants from the island of Madura, who were resettled on the island by the government to ease overcrowding in other areas.

80.   The journey to the islands by normal boats takes about two to three hours to the jetty at a place called Karakit.