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...Darkness falls quickly in the tropics and after sundown, there's only one place to be: in one of the park's comfortably appointed accommodations. During the wet season, rates drop considerably. The Kakadu Resort complex, set on a 10-hectare bushland site near the South Alligator River, offers air-conditioned motel rooms (doubles cost $70 a night), powered and unpowered van sites, and a camping area ($3.80 per person); call (61-8) 8979-0166 to book. For those with slightly fatter wallets, there's the Gagudju Crocodile Holiday Inn in the town of Jabiru...
...view. Folks in this corner believe Bush should look more presidential. He should stop goofing around with the nicknames and the jokes and sit up straight and act like the leader of the free world. You might think this kind of advice would confuse a White House - but in Bushland they?ve decided both sides are right. The president needs to hang with regular people - particularly regular people of color - and let his charms show, and he needs to find moments when he can use the ceremony of the office to enhance his stature...
This week GEORGE W. BUSH named his father's Defense Secretary, DICK CHENEY, to head his vice-presidential selection team, upping speculation that General COLIN POWELL, Cheney's partner during the Gulf War, might be approached. Some in Bushland feel only Cheney can persuade his old friend to take the post--but it will be tough. Not only has Powell had a long-standing disregard for the No. 2 job, but sources say he was particularly disturbed by Bush's South Carolina campaign--his failure to take a position on the Confederate flag flying above the state capitol...
Thousands on thousands of southern Sudanese are wandering helplessly through the vast bushland, leaving a trail of bones as they flee into overcrowded and starving towns, abandoning their blooming crops. They are driven to places like Juba by the two armies. The government denies the civilians food to keep it out of the hands of S.P.L.A. fighters. The S.P.L.A. rapes civilian women, steals civilians' food and mines their fields. Its aim is to cause chaos in the towns by flooding them with desperate refugees. "The government in Khartoum has turned its back on the south. The S.P.L.A. forces everyone...
...lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury. Ten minutes later the pilot, John Hood, 36, reported that he had lost control of his starboard engines. "We're going in," he radioed. In a few moments, his craft crashed into the thick bushland of the Whamira Hills...