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...average, they produce the equivalent of about $400 in revenue per Indian. Meanwhile, casinos in California, Connecticut and Florida--states with only 3% of the Indian population--haul in 44% of all revenue, an average of $100,000 per Indian. In California, the casino run by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians pulls in well over $100 million a year. That's about $900,000 per member...
SENTENCED. EURICO GUTERRES, 28, former leader of the fearsome pro-Indonesian Aitarak militia; to ten years in prison, for ordering an attack on the Dili home of independence activist Manuel Carrascalao, and for crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody break with Indonesia in 1999; in Jakarta. The sentence was the stiffest yet imposed by a special tribunal investigating the killings of more than 1,000 East Timorese. But the court has yet to convict any members of the Indonesian military, which had control over militias like Aitarak. Guterres remains free pending an appeal that may not be heard...
...years of Niyazov's rule have ruined Turkmenistan," Orazov told TIME. "We don't want him dead. We want him alive to stand trial" for alleged embezzlement and other crimes. Over 100 people were detained and more arrests are expected. PORTUGAL School for Scandal Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso ordered an investigation into claims of a high-level cover-up of 30 years of sex abuse at the Casa Pia, the country's biggest school for deprived children. Families Minister Felix Bagão sacked the school's administration, and its employee Carlos Silvino was arrested and charged...
...neighbors, among them the owners of three small boats who had gone out to fish beyond the exclusion zone. There, in the dark, the men were terrified to find themselves surrounded by "a raft of a gluey substance that glistened in the moonlight," says one of the fishermen, Manuel Toja. "It was so thick we felt we were stuck in it." Back in port - with their nets, buoys and lobster traps ruined by oil - their meager catch was rejected by the health authorities. While waves, winds and oil churn off shore, storms also are raging in government and shipping industry...
...DIED. MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, 100, father of Mexican photography who, along with painters Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, helped lead Mexico's cultural renaissance in the early 20th century; in Mexico City...