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EXCEPT for brief, bi-weekly reprieves to the pubs of Cairns, one hour away, we spent all our times in the verdant forest. One of many tropical rainforest fragments scattered along the northeastern coast of Australia, this area has been extensively cleared for settlement, agriculture and logging. And the Australian wildlife has suffered dramatically, with many species are endangered. Others were probably lost before they were ever known...
Time began to blur. Days faded into nights, punctuated by brief trips to the sink and evil-smelling meals. I cannot remember the third day at all. On the fourth day, while we were washing, I begged the guard to let us use a phone. His response was to hit me in the ribs with his truncheon. I retreated into our cell, crying and wishing I were elsewhere...
...robbed the Stuarts and taken their jewelry. In the warrant the police obtained to search Bennett's home, they underlined the recollection that Bennett said he told Stuart, ^ "Don't look in the rearview mirror." Those words were almost identical to the ones that Stuart, in a brief interview with the police right after the shooting, claimed the killer used. Already in custody on a charge of robbing a Brookline video store, Bennett was placed in a lineup as soon as Stuart was well enough to come to the station. Stuart picked out Bennett as a man who resembled...
...miles to the Tobin Bridge in his new Nissan Maxima and jumped. When police fished him out of the water, he was dressed in blue jeans and a parka, suggesting that he may have picked up a change of clothes after leaving the convenience store. Stuart left a brief note on the passenger seat of his car that said, "I love my family . . . the last four months have been real hell . . . all the allegations have taken all my strength." Later, police searching his hotel room found an ashtray filled with change, the uncalled list of defense attorneys...
Beyond the ineffective and brief Operation Blast Furnace, in which U.S. helicopter crews carried local raiding parties into Bolivian jungles to shut down a few coca laboratories in 1986, U.S. troops have done little antidrug work abroad. The Navy has permitted Coast Guard officers aboard its ships along likely drug routes to make arrests if they come across smugglers. Some 75 U.S. military and police advisers are in Colombia on antidrug training missions...