61.   Gangs here fight for the chance to ship drugs through the island to the mainland United States.

62.   Gov. Tatsuya Hori of Hokkaido said better relations between Russia and Japan could be promoted by the return of the islands to Japan.

63.   He had urged the authorities to also consider closing the island to visitors for a short period during the spawning season of the marine life.

64.   He sold the island to Marlin Eckhardt Maruma, a German artist who has been back just once since promising skeptical vassals that he would reverse decades of decline.

65.   He sold flying lessons, air tours of Miami, and trips to Bimini, the nearest Bahamian island to the United States.

66.   He said hundreds of villagers have been moved from the north of the island to the southern side to avoid the lava flow.

67.   He was referring to a crucial stage during which a number of riders crashed on a roadway that links a small island to the western coast of France.

68.   However, he said that a few hire cars would be retained to enable people to travel from the island directly to destinations in other States.

69.   Hoping to end a decades-long squabble, Indonesia and Malaysia have taken their territorial dispute over two small islands to the World Court.

70.   In recent months China has adopted an increasingly belligerent stance toward Taiwan, staging military exercises and test launching missiles near the island to undermine support for independence there.