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...city and cell phones at the airport, and one theater company moved its performance out onto the street by the light of a pair of parked cars with their high beams on. In Ohio the Akron Beacon Journal printed a special edition of its rival, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose editors typed up reporters' notes by flashlight. Modell's sporting-goods company parked two trucks stocked with 2,000 pairs of shoes in Times Square and handed them out to stranded people walking home. In Harlem a group of church ladies in large hats outside a small Pentecostal church...
...insists that Lakhani is a "significant international arms dealer," but the degree of his apparent gullibility (wouldn't an arms kingpin have known something about suppliers and fake weapons, or at least become suspicious about last-minute negotiators?) immediately led to speculation that the bureau had used a drift net to catch a minnow. Indeed, there is no evidence tying Lakhani to any terrorist group (though he did refer to Americans as "bastards" on an FBI tape), nor is there anything to explain why a man who until three years ago owned a clothing business would have been interested...
Vasile Gliga has come a long way since his first, illicit foray into business. While employed by Reghin's state-owned violin factory in the 1980s, he secretly made an instrument for himself at home. In 1990, following the Romanian revolution, he sold it to a dealer in the West. The $2,000 price, an undreamed-of fortune, not only bought him a secondhand auto, it also prompted a decision. Frustrated by what he calls the "old-style communist-worker mentality" ingrained in his factory colleagues, he quit his job, calculating that he and his wife, working from home, could...
...Well,” he says, “I know you don’t go to a gas station and ask for a Rolls Royce, but maybe the gas station attendant can refer you to the Rolls Royce dealer, right...
...Denied Pardon. Peter Bleach, British arms dealer serving a life sentence for parachut-ing crates of arms into eastern India; in New Delhi. Bleach was arrested in Bombay with an aircrew from Russia in 1995. The crew received a presidential pardon in 2000 after Moscow intervened. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed for Bleach's release during Indian Deputy Premier L.K. Advani's trip to London in June. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christen Nielson, was never captured and the intended recipients of the weapons never identified...