High strength nonwoven fabric and process for making

A disposable diaper or other garment including a nonwoven fabric sheet, the nonwoven fabric sheet comprising:

• a multiplicity of generally parallel elongate strands of inelastic thermoplastic material extending in spaced relationship, each of said strands having opposite elongate side surface portions that are spaced from and are adjacent elongate side surface portions of adjacent strands, and each of said strands also having corresponding opposite first and second elongate surface portions extending between said opposite elongate side surface portions;
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• a first sheet of flexible nonwoven material having anchor portions thermally bonded at first sheet bond sites of the strands along said first elongate surface portions wherein thermoplastic material forming the elongate strands is oriented at least between adjacent bond sites along the length of the strands.