Word: dewy
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They came at three o'clock on a moonless morning, a dozen men dressed in black, faces covered by balaclavas, hurling ropes and grappling hooks up onto the decks of the Dewi Madrim and swarming up the ship's sides. As his cohorts smashed in the windows of the bridge with their automatic rifles, one of the men pinned the sole officer on duty in a corner and pressed the barrel of a pistol to his head. "They asked him to tell them where the rest of the crew were," recounts the chemical tanker's captain at the time, Surahmat...
...March 2003 attack on the Dewi Madrim in the Strait of Malacca is typical of a rising tide of crime that has turned one of the world's busiest waterways into one of the most dangerous. About 800 km long, the strait is traversed each year by some 50,000 ships carrying one-third of the world's trade and half its crude oil, including 90% of Japan's oil needs. Its narrowest point, near Singapore, is barely 2 km across, making passing ships easy targets. In its latest report released last month, the London-based International Maritime Bureau...
...DEWI SUKARNO TV pitchwoman...
Stepmother of the current President of Indonesia and widow of a former President, Dewi is a TV celebrity in Japan, her native country. Glamorous at 61, Dewi is frequently asked her opinion on everything from political issues to the foibles of the famous. She's also not above promoting cockroach spray. Dewi does not appear to need the money--she has homes in New York City, Paris and Indonesia--but she clearly enjoys the attention...