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When Gauguin decided, at 35, to give himself over full time to his art, he did it with a passion. He abandoned his job as a stockbroker and deposited his Danish wife Mette and their five children back in Copenhagen, never to see them again. Tahiti would break his heart, of course. What he knew of the island was built mostly out of visits to the Paris World's Fair and from the romantic fabrications of the novelist Pierre Loti. By the time Gauguin made the first of his two voyages, in 1891, the native culture he hoped to find...
...RELEASED. PETER BLEACH, 52, British arms dealer convicted of parachuting crates of weapons into India's West Bengal state in 1995; after a presidential pardon; in Calcutta. Bleach and an aircrew from Russia and Latvia were arrested in Bombay in 1995. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christian Nielsen, fled India, and the intended recipients of the weapons were never confirmed...
...former Minister Alain Van der Biest, who committed suicide in 2002. Case Closed CZECH REPUBLIC Fifty-six years after his fatal fall from a window, police concluded that Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk's death in 1948 was murder, not suicide as was ruled initially. WMD Found? IRAQ Danish troops operating in the south announced they had discovered dozens of buried mortar rounds that initial tests showed could contain blister gas. Results of final tests on the shells, which had been buried for at least 10 years, should be available this week. Terror on Trial KENYA Three men pleaded...
...Thailand (it will apparently be held in the name of the Thailand Privilege Co., set up to run the scheme, as foreigners are not allowed to own land in their own right). "The ability to buy land was the reason I bought the card," says Rasmus Lisbjerg, a Danish businessman. Land ownership is, however, a sensitive issue. Thaksin is popular with the locals because he has promised to eradicate poverty in six years. But when millions of indebted, landless Thai farmers can't afford a rice paddy of their own, opponents of the scheme will dislike the symbolism of land...
...Thailand (it will apparently be held in the name of the Thailand Privilege Co., set up to run the scheme, as foreigners are not allowed to own land in their own right). "The ability to buy land was the reason I bought the card," says Rasmus Lisbjerg, a Danish businessman. Land ownership is, however, a sensitive issue. Thaksin is popular with the locals because he has promised to eradicate poverty in six years. But when millions of indebted, landless Thai farmers can't afford a rice paddy of their own, opponents of the scheme will dislike the symbolism of land...