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...Another case related to the deaths of more than 500 British p.o.w.s on Ballale Island, near Bougainville. Almost 300 died when forced onto the airstrip during an Allied bombing raid; 150 more died from ill-treatment, and the rest were bayoneted and buried in mass graves. The case was dropped because the victims were not Australian; relatives were told the men had died when a prison ship carrying them was sunk. "We only found out in 1997 what really happened," says June Woods, 69, whose father Alfred Burgess was one of the victims. "The government should have held the Japanese...
...Jennings' soothing on-air presence and personal grace belied a fierce competitiveness and courage that NBC's Brian Williams, who took over Brokaw's spot last year, says makes news of his death harder to believe. Williams recalls sitting last year with a nonchalant Jennings on an airstrip at Baghdad Airport, waiting for a C-130 transport to Kuwait just a day after a similar plane had been shot down on take-off from the same airport. "He just sat in a folding chair, reading a book. He was absolutely in his element," says Williams. "Peter never lost a challenge...
...were still off and Galal, with a gun barrel at his head, had to rely on his plane's landing lights to pierce the darkness as he touched down. The tower ordered him to taxi to a remote parking area; four police buses then blocked both ends of the airstrip...
...that were not trouble enough, Marcos' campaign plane nearly collided on Saturday with an air force plane carrying some of his security guards that was about to land at the opposite end of came same airstrip. Flying in clear skies, the two craft came within 3,000 ft. of each other before the military plane veered out of the way, almost hitting a grove of palm trees. DISASTERS A Bad Start...
...gone now and the ports swallowed whole. With bulldozers scarce, elephants have been enlisted to help clear debris. When pilots try to fly into a small airport, they find that the maps are suddenly wrong because the landscape has been rubbed away. Precious hours were lost when the lone airstrip in Banda Aceh was closed after a 737 hit a water buffalo while trying to land. "We need to make small, damaged airstrips some of the busiest airports in the world," says the U.N.'s Jan Egeland. In some Sumatran villages, it was impossible to deliver any goods...