1.   Although a Bond supervillain might be vaguely Russian or Chinese, he would always be independently bent on world domination, usually from some impregnable island fortress.

2.   The harbor at Slite is guarded by an island fortress.

3.   You will tour the island fortress, visit Bataan and participate in a memorial ceremony.

4.   A trip to the island fortress Suomenlinna can easily beguile away half a day.

5.   Government mulls long-term preservation of the island fortress where the U.S. Civil War began.

6.   President Lee Teng-hui Friday rejected a proposal by the main opposition party to demilitarize two island fortresses near China.

7.   They captured Chiayi, southern Taiwan, a stronghold of the pro-independence DPP, and held the island fortress of Quemoy against the New Party.

8.   Two Taiwanese island fortresses, targets of Chinese coastal artillery in the past, plan to import drinking water from China, a newspaper reported Sunday.

9.   Two army officers on an island fortress have been dismissed for the accidental shelling of a mainland Chinese village that injured four people, the defense ministry announced Saturday.

10.   He is to meet with President Fidel Ramos and visit the World War II island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay on Sunday before departing.