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...impossible that members of terrorist groups are living in New Zealand, says Foreign Minister Goff, but nor is it likely. "Because we're a small country," he says, "we're very nosy people. If people turn up behaving oddly, we tend to notice." (In 2000, Auckland police said they'd busted a plot to blow up Sydney's nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim...
...1990s posing as a leather salesman, but Foreign Minister Goff says police have found no evidence for this.) Alternatively, Buchanan says, "you could come on a student visa and overstay, though that's being tightened up worldwide - many of the 9/11 hijackers were in the U.S. as students." In Auckland last week, a Kuwaiti student and an Iraqi were charged with forging passports from six countries, including Australia...
...CONVICTED. LESLEY MARTIN, 40, intensive-care nurse and prominent campaigner for voluntary euthanasia; for the attempted murder of her terminally ill mother in 1999; in Auckland. Police began investigating Martin after she self-published To Die Like a Dog, a book detailing the events that led to her mother's death. She faces up to 10 years in prison...
...INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper?yours, that is?using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece...
...soon become standard: INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City 's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper - yours, that is - using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece. COMFORTECH Press a button in your room at the Peninsula in Hong Kong, and a softly lit path helps...