81.   Local organizers say the temporary structure was built to hold equipment, cameras and to provide scenery.

82.   Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Sunday that Malaysia built the structures to ward off foreign claims.

83.   Malaysia recently built small structures on one of the reefs in the archipelago, saying it feared other countries might do the same.

84.   Malaysian officials, however, denied they have plans to build structures on the shoal and promised to withdraw their vessels, the official said, without elaborating.

85.   Malaysia said it built the structures for environmental and marine research on its own territory.

86.   Mercado said the Philippine government is trying to identify the country that built the structure, which could serve as the foundation of a multistory concrete building.

87.   Ramos said photographs taken by Philippine air force planes indicated that structures had been built on stilts on the reef and that the vessels appeared to be armed.

88.   Tensions rose sharply in February when the Philippines discovered that China had built structures on a reef claimed by Manila.

89.   The American subsidiary of Far East Levingston builds and repairs oil and gas rigs and ships in Brownsville and also builds structures for marine and offshore industries.

90.   The government gave the settlers permission to build the structure in August, after a Hebron rabbi was fatally stabbed, apparently by Palestinians.