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...lost in the tumble of revelations about Iranscam have been the details of what Oliver North and his free-lance operatives were actually doing. How did they transfer weapons and carry out their intricate dealings? The erratic journeys of a small Danish freighter provide a glimpse of the haphazard way the operations worked -- or didn...
...ORIGINAL GOAL was to take a year or two off from my life and travel around the world. No deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...
...forbidden to discuss them with his rare visitors. Then the South African government began seriously to consider releasing him as a "humanitarian" gesture, fearing he might die in prison and thereby touch off an uprising in the black townships. Some official might have remembered the warning of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: "The tyrant dies and his rule ends; the martyr dies and his rule begins...
What faces the world's population, said Dr. Halfdan Mahler, the Danish director of WHO, is a "health crisis of pandemic proportions." Meeting it, he said, will require expenditures of $1.5 billion a year by the start of the 1990s for a massive global public-health program. In the past five years, there have been an estimated 100,000 AIDS cases throughout the world, most of them in North America, Africa and Western Europe. One million people are currently suffering from AIDS-related disorders. Moreover, as many as 10 million have been infected with the AIDS virus and are capable...
Some details about how the transfers were arranged came last week from a seemingly unlikely source: the Union of Seamen in Denmark. It said that Danish ships, which have acquired a reputation for being able to deliver quietly any questionable cargo anywhere, had carried at least five loads of arms and ammunition from Israel to Iran. Said Union Deputy Chairman Henrik Berlau: "It appears that the shipments this year have been carried out on the orders of the U.S. to win the release of hostages in Lebanon...