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...Lapindo Brantas, the Indonesian mining company widely blamed for releasing the reservoir of pressurized mud following a drilling accident last May, has come up with a novel form of damage control: sponsoring a sinetron, or Indonesian soap opera, on Surabaya TV station JTV. The 13-part series, Gali Lubang, Tutup Lubang (Digging a Hole, Filling a Hole), is a love story set among refugees left homeless by the mud volcano. "We wanted to show a real story about human interest," says JTV executive producer Awi Setiawan, who adds that Lapindo paid about $3,300 per episode...
...samba in a Rio nightspot. He was not referring to Brazil's secret police, who war against enemies of the state, but to a farm in the interior run by 36 Japanese families. Before deciding to turn cattleman, however, Onoda will publish his memoirs, Thirty Years in Lubang, and visit New York City, but he does not want to live there. Said Onoda: "I don't think there's much work there that would suit...
...persuade him, via loudspeakers, search parties and air-dropped leaflets, that the war was truly over and that he should surrender and come home. The ministry had known for some time that he was alive because the Philippine police had reported occasional gun battles involving its constables on Lubang and a mysterious recluse dressed in a Japanese army uniform...
...Matter What. A graduate of an Imperial Army intelligence school, Onoda was posted to Lubang in late 1944. His orders were specific: "To continue carrying out your mission even after the Japanese Army surrenders, no matter what happens." After the island was liberated by American and Philippine forces, Onoda went underground with three enlisted men; one of his compatriots surrendered in 1950, and the other two were killed in shoot-outs with Philippine police, the first in 1954 and the second in 1972. Meanwhile, Onoda set up a series of hideouts across the 74-sq.-mi. island, stealing food...
Last month, a young Japanese adventurer named Norio Suzuki went to Lubang to hunt down Onoda. When the two men finally met in a remote jungle clearing, the lieutenant laid down his condition: "Only in case my commanding officer rescinds my order in person will I surrender." Last weekend Suzuki returned to Lubang accompanied by former army Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, 63, a Kyushu bookseller who had been Onoda's last military superior. Dressed in a shapeless cap and a tattered uniform and clutching his old regulation infantry rifle, Onoda stood at attention as Taniguchi read out an Imperial Army...