81.   Mindanao is also the home to the large Muslim minority in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines.

82.   Most Filipinos are descendants of settlers from Southeast Asia and Indonesia, with a large Chinese minority.

83.   Most programming until now has been in Russian, the primary language for most people in Kazakstan, where there is a large Russian minority.

84.   NATO Secretary General Javier Solana Thursday urged Latvia to approve legal amendments easing citizenship requirements for its large Russian minority, thus easing tensions with Moscow.

85.   Resentment is high among Fijians against the large Indian minority that dominates business.

86.   Romania has a large Hungarian minority and recently signed a friendship treaty with Budapest.

87.   Relations between Russia and two of its Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Estonia, have been strained over the treatment of the large Russian minorities in those countries.

88.   Romania and Slovakia on Thursday rejected what they consider growing demands for more autonomy by the large ethnic Hungarian minority in each country.

89.   Shiite Iran has traditionally wielded considerable influence in western Afghanistan, where a large Shiite minority lives.

90.   Russia has often criticized Latvia for its treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, most of whom do not have Latvian citizenship.