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...whom were allied with the colonizing Dutch, were jailed or murdered during the independence campaigns of the 1940s. Sinar's father died in 1946, but of natural causes. He had allied himself with Sukarno. A wise choice, though his family was still marched out of its home at gunpoint by communist forces. Sinar hated the communists for that. "But we got our revenge," he says a little too gleefully, when Suharto purged the communists in the 1960s following Sukarno's overthrow, leading to the deaths of up to a million Indonesians...
...Paulo, Brazil, a survey found, nearly a quarter of city residents routinely change their driving routes to avoid robberies in which thugs stop a car at a light and demand money at gunpoint or force occupants to an ATM. The crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew...
...getting light when they finally arrived at 5 a.m. on tiny Arreceffi island. Disarming the security guards, the gunmen went straight for the cabanas on stilts over the water, which go for $720 per couple for two nights. They kicked down the doors and marched 20 guests out at gunpoint, including an eight-year-old Filipino boy and an American missionary couple who were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. Then the thugs started on the mini-bars and closets, grabbing sodas, nuts and chocolate, T shirts, lingerie and sunglasses. "Clothes were strewn around the rooms," says police Inspector Rodolfo Amurao...
...continue serving as chairman and director emeritus but will have no voting power. EXTRADITION UPHELD.Of FRANZ MEIJER 46, to the Netherlands for the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken; in Paraguay. Meijer and four others abducted Heineken and his chauffeur in downtown Amsterdam and held them, often at gunpoint, for three weeks. Meijer fled to South America 18 years ago and has been on the Netherlands' most-wanted list ever since. He faces a 12-year sentence when he returns. ARRESTED. HIROO MIZUSHIMA, 89, former chairman of Sogo Co., on suspicion of attempting to hide personal assets from creditors...
DIED. ANN LEYBOURNE BIEBEL, 53, retired Chicago cop who, as an off-duty recruit, shot and killed the city's infamous "Friday-night rapist" when he kidnapped her at gunpoint on New Year's Day in 1973; of cancer; in Muskegon, Mich...