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Before the finale of Brookâs match, sophomore No. 16 Beier Ko had won handily, 7-5, 6-1, over opponent Natalia Bubien. Litvak defeated Jennifer Chay in straight sets and Harvard earned the doubles point with wins by the Ko and Litvak combination and the Mukundan and Brook pairing...
...still, escape the day-trip detritus altogether and arrange a few days on a luxury live-aboard junk complete with kayaks on which to paddle through the maze of inlets, mangrove lagoons and caves that honeycomb the shoreline. Try Huong Hai Tourism Co. in the bayside town of Bai Chay, tel: (84-33) 845-042, which operates several junks at $125 a person per day, including food, park fees and insurance. For kayaking, call Trails of Indochina in Hanoi at (84-88) 441-005, or Thailand-based SeaCanoe at (66-76) 212-252. If you want to travel...
...level up from buyers like Samnang are the brokers who collect large orders from buyers and arrange for the gun shipments. Chay, a broker in his early 30s, seems nervous when we meet just after dawn in the urine-redolent upper room of a bar 15 minutes outside Bangkok. A heavily built Thai, Chay fidgets a lot, looking down at his hands. His discomfort may be caused by his boss who is sitting at another table, an obese, balding man in his 50s who scowls behind thick, gold-rimmed glasses and cigar smoke...
...back pocket. One pulled out a gun and pointed it at my head. I said I just wanted a record of what was said, that I had no idea they would object. After half an hour the men calm down but the boss still isn't happy. Slowly, Chay starts to talk, glancing at his boss regularly. "The network is huge," Chay says. The weapons he buys are stored in warehouses on the Thai-Cambodian border, then moved by truck to Burma or other destinations. "Usually my trucks don't even get stopped for checks. It's easy to bribe...
...this point, Chay's boss takes over. He is in touch with many overseas syndicates, he says: "I have never met the end buyers but from my syndicate contacts, I know that it goes to Acehnese rebel groups, Burmese minority groups like the Karen, Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines and the rebel groups in Indonesia." Since he is playing such a dangerous game, doesn't he worry about getting caught? "The Thai army openly sells weapons," he says. "They are the biggest source of protection for the people involved in this business. What more do we want...