71.   Cuban officials called on Washington, with whom the communist island has no diplomatic ties, to sign a narcotics interdiction agreement.

72.   Each island has its own generation system and supply is sufficient to meet demand.

73.   Even for the Japanese, the Okinawan islands have an exotic, almost foreign, flavor.

74.   For a few minutes, this Caribbean island had its first taste of the emotions that will surge across Cuba the day Fidel Castro dies.

75.   For many of the countries that claim control over the archipelagos, the islands have strategic importance.

76.   Gov. Rossello is vice president of the Democratic Governors Association, and the island has long ties to the Democratic Party.

77.   However, small islands have less capacity to deal with the problems, according to three reports released at U.N. headquarters in New York.

78.   However, the islands have dozens of marinas where sailboats and other pleasure craft can dock with few immigration controls.

79.   If separatists win the referendum, the two islands will have to decide how to divide airspace, territorial waters and government offices.

80.   Iloilo island has four provinces and Negros has two.