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...Australia, New Zealand and Europe." The cops who swooped on the building June 9 - finding 5 kg of the glassy drug and enough chemicals to make a metric ton of it - came from Fiji, Australia and New Zealand. Of the suspects arrested that day, one was Fijian-born, two were Chinese Fijians and four held Hong Kong passports; by week's end, raids in Hong Kong and Malaysia had nabbed six more Chinese and a Malaysian. What's thought to be one of the world's biggest drug labs was, from start to finish, a multinational affair...
...stabilize its neighbors. The nine-nation mission to restore order to Solomon Islands, he says, is a model of what close cooperation can achieve. Australia and New Zealand are also helping small states update antiquated laws. Police had to wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill - increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life - was not ready to put to Parliament until the day of the raid...
...with the proud bearing of a hereditary high chief, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who has died at 83 from the effects of a stroke, towered over Fijian politics for three decades. Trained as a civil servant under British colonial rule, he helped draft a constitution that gave equal status to ethnic Fijians and Indians and in 1970 became the independent nation's first Prime Minister. After a 1987 military coup ousted Mara's left-wing political rival, he resumed the prime ministership and assented to a new constitution favoring ethnic Fijians. (He later apologized to Indo-Fijians for doing...
...approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other applicants, none of whom had seen snow before...
...Winners ELLEN DEGENERES Ex-lover Anne Heche says comic was the best lover she ever had. But then she also claimed to have spoken with God in a secret language GEORGE SPEIGHT Fijian coup-maker campaigns from his prison cell and wins a seat in Parliament. Hey, that makes him kind of like Mandela and Havel! THE CONCORDE Supersonic planes get O.K. for return to service. Never mind what the global economic meltdown has done to CEOs' travel budgets Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Slammed by animal-rights activists for plans to bring cheetahs onstage, she totes a snake instead. Like...