1.   Beside him sit the other island dignitaries, the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided.

2.   The boys are becoming more evil and corrupt as they divide the island into three units.

3.   The island is divided today because the Dutch grabbed what is now Irian Jaya while the Germans and British colonized the Papua half.

4.   Denktash has said he will only discuss steps to reduce confrontations along the U.N. buffer zone that divides the island.

5.   Denktash repeated his argument that the only solution to the Cyprus dispute is to permanently divide the island into two separate states.

6.   Last week a group of Turks and Turkish Cypriots killed two unarmed Greek Cypriot demonstrators in the buffer zone that has divided the island since the Turkish invasion.

7.   Late Tuesday, Cypriots on both sides of the Green Line that divides the island stepped up the pressure on their leaders.

8.   On Sunday, stone-throwing Greek Cypriots stormed the U.N. buffer zone dividing the island to protest Turkish occupation.

9.   Since then the island has been divided into Greek and Turkish sectors.

10.   The forum was only the second since the island was unofficially divided.