Word: buys
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Supplied in part by American donations, the gunslinging rangers have so far captured 21 poachers and killed 29. But the gangs keep coming, and parks officials admit that they are in a losing battle. Their only hope is to slow down illegal hunting in order to buy time for two other efforts to save the rhinos. One is capturing and moving as many of the animals as possible away from the Zambezi Valley to safer sanctuaries. The other involves an international campaign of diplomacy and media pressure to shut down the trade in rhino horn...
...crowd with whale-size wallets prefers to buy. And if they hurry, there is a bargain on the market, the 282-ft. Nabila, complete with disco and swimming pool. Until recently the pride of financially troubled Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the yacht is up for sale at a mere $35 million...
...default came after nine months of talks in London finally fizzled. North Korea has owed most of the money, which it used mainly to buy grain and heavy equipment and to build bridges and roads, since the early 1970s. The country has never repaid any principal; indeed, on several occasions, it also suspended debt repayments, only to work out more favorable terms with Japanese and Western creditors. But for the past three years, Pyongyang has refused even to meet interest charges. For a time it looked as if the banks and the North Koreans might work out another agreement...
...other journals are also being snatched off the newsstands as soon as they appear. Probably the most sought-after paper in the capital is the provocative Moscow News, which was the first Soviet publication to run the full story of Mathias Rust's Red Square landing. Readers sometimes buy the paper, which is primarily intended for foreigners, for ten to 20 times the official cost of 10 kopecks (16 cents). Ogonyok, which two years ago was largely unread, now sells out all 1.5 million issues every week. Under the editorship of Vitaly Korotich, the magazine has published a 1939 testament...
...Saudi Arabia at the holy city of Mecca, where thousands of Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims staged a bloody riot against Saudi authority. This, in turn, caused other Arab leaders to urge Assad to stop supporting Iran in the gulf war -- a step that would cost him his right to buy Iranian oil at heavily discounted prices. According to Syrian diplomats, Damascus has warned Iran against widening the war to include any other Arab states...