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...Monday morning, it looked as though the Australian-trained soldier's belief in his abilities had been ill-founded. Reinado was gunned down outside President Jose Ramos-Horta's compound during what authorities claim was an assassination attempt on the country's President and its Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão. Reinado's comrades angrily deny this and say their commander had been invited into town for a meeting when he was attacked, and that Ramos-Horta was caught in the ensuing gunfight. Whatever the truth, the incident left Ramos-Horta with gunshot wounds to the stomach and back...
...into the mountains in disgust. He had since eluded capture, using his intimate knowledge of the mountain and bush tracks of his eastern homeland, while a network of loyal villagers with mobile phones kept him apprised of the movements of United Nations Police and the troops of the Australian-led International Stabilisation Force...
...ensuing mob violence. An estimated 150,000 of the nation's 1 million citizens were forced to flee their homes. Reinado was briefly jailed but escaped from prison and since then he and many of his forces have remained on the run, engaging in occasional firefights with Australian led-peacekeepers, whose East Timor mission continues six years after the country's independence...
...York, London and Hong Kong and their status as global financial and trade hubs: Rather than celebrating Ny-lon-kong, you should have hailed New-syd-don [Jan. 28]. Sydney is a larger city than Hong Kong, and more companies have their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters there. The Australian Stock Exchange, based in Sydney, is among the world's 10 biggest and No. 3 in the Asia-Pacific. Sydney is one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities: about 3 in 10 residents come from overseas, representing 170 countries. In asserting that Hong Kong was the 14th richest city...
...scoops Che up and flees with him to Australia, where she and Che hide out with a band of smelly rural hippies. There is nobody who is not a drag in this book: the cops; the angry, self-righteous American radicals who fight the cops; even the listless Australian hippies, though they are (I think) supposed to be the sympathetic ones. You're left feeling that the only choices are being violently idealistic, selling out or subsistence farming on a flyblown commune, and you can't tell which is worst...