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    mindanao
    [ noun ]
    the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic
    <noun.location>


    1. A new foreign investment law has been enacted to attract foreign capital. On the negative side, a shortage of electricity is threatening industries in the southern island of Mindanao and there are fears that the main island of Luzon may also be affected.
    2. In Zamboanga City, also on Mindanao Island, fire of undetermined origin leveled the entire Moslem-dominated barter trade center, destroying about $1.3 million worth of goods but causing no injuries, officials said Wednesday.
    3. But the coup rumors, cabinet battles and constitutional debates that rattle Manila go unremarked in places like Davao on Mindanao island, a longer flight from the capital than are Taiwan and Hong Kong.
    4. The new Philippine Constitution provides for autonomy for "Moslem Mindanao," although most of the island's population is Christian.
    5. In Golden, Colo., the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered in the Pacific about 40 miles off northeast Mindanao and 160 miles from Davao.
    6. Hermosa has vowed to capture the 30 to 50 renegades, who moved to Mactan after deserting their unit on Mindanao island.
    7. Despite his surrender, Noble claimed he achieved his objectives of drawing attention to the problems of Mindanao.
    8. Six men firing submachine guns killed a British executive in an ambush about 12 miles southwest of this Mindanao island city, police said Sunday.
    9. Philippine troops battled Moslem rebels who seized a government building on Mindanao island.
    10. Lightning killed two people during a thunderstorm spawned by Ofelia in Lanao del Sur province on Mindanao island, about 520 miles south of Manila.
    11. National Security Adviser Rafael Ileto said that the rebels hope to establish a secessionist government on Mindanao, then "move up north." There have been rumors that a coup attempt was brewing in the region for nearly six months.
    12. According to the military, Navarro is a New People's Army leader in eastern Mindanao.
    13. The army was put on alert, and troops were sent to Mindanao to prevent threatened violence by Moslem rebels.
    14. A mutinous captain put the figure at 2,000. De Villa claimed troops remained loyal in northern Luzon, Mindanao and in the southern Luzon command.
    15. In the most recent attempt, military rebels led by Col. Alexander Noble seized military camps in two cities on the southernmost island of Mindanao on Oct. 4 but surrendered two days later.
    16. In congressional and regional elections since Mrs. Aquino took office in February 1986, the Marcos party has fared poorly, except in northern Luzon and scattered parts of Mindanao and the Visayas islands.
    17. Except for this breakaway group, we are in control of all units in Manila and the entire country." Templo said there were no plans to send troops from Luzon, the main island, to reinforce government forces on Mindanao.
    18. Shots were fired Friday at the Mindanao home of a member of President Corazon Aquino's Cabinet. One person was killed and another wounded.
    19. Renato de Villa ruled out further negotiations with the Moslems, saying they killed at least one of two hostages taken Thursday in this Mindanao Island city about 560 miles south of Manila.
    20. Through decades of migration from Luzon and the Visayas islands, Christians now outnumber Moslems in 17 of the 22 provinces on Mindanao and the Sulu island chain.
    21. Also Thursday, a bomb exploded outside a Manila army base three hours after the Mindanao base was taken.
    22. De Gigord, a member of the Paris Foreign Mission, has been chaplain at the Mindanao State University in Marawi for the past 10 years.
    23. The military said Communist rebels killed 15 troopers last Saturday on southern Mindanao island and shot dead a Filipino executive of the Nestle's company in an ambush Monday southeast of Manila.
    24. The guerrillas belong to the main faction of Moslem separatist rebels seeking independence for the southern island of Mindanao.
    25. Insurgency-related incidents on southern Mindanao Island have claimed the lives of 911 people this year, the military said Tuesday.
    26. "It becomes relatively clear why we consider ourselves to be living in a period of church persecution in the Philippines," he said during the services in this Mindanao island community 470 miles south of Manila.
    27. Officials also declared a state of emergency throughout the western district of Mindanao.
    28. Four other rebels, chained but alive, told the military of a purge among the communists in Mindanao that, in its brutality, was unprecedented in the party's 20-year history.
    29. On the southern island of Mindanao, 600 bodies have been unearthed, many of them victims of a six-month killing spree within the rebel ranks that even the NPA admits went too far.
    30. The navy said a merchant ship with 16 crew members was missing off Mindanao island and that 16 boats had sunk off Cebu island. Three sailors were reported missing in the Cebu sinkings.
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