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...this, Association officials said, is a direct response to alarming crime statistics recently provided by local police. The Association says that police statistics showed that 45 robberies and 245 larcenies took place last year in the Square and surrounding merchant community alone...
...Captains of more than 50 merchant ships from Caspian Sea oil refineries blockaded Baku harbor, threatening to blow up tankers and drilling platforms unless they were allowed to inspect ships leaving port. Rumor had it that Soviet troops had killed thousands and were dumping the corpses at sea. Army artillery barrages broke up the blockade, and troops boarded several of the ships. Lieut. General Mikhail Kolesnikov reported that one soldier was killed and two were wounded in the operation...
...script follows Evangeline Edwards--the nymph errant--as she meanders across the Continent, having been encouraged by her boarding school chemistry teacher to "experiment" with different experiences and, inevitably, with different men. Her romantic interests run the gamut from a lecherous French musical director to a sleazy Greek merchant...
...entitled to the medal. Lieut. Colonel Terrence Adkins, who led the inquiry, said Rubitsky's exploits "did not occur as alleged." An investigator described as "fraudulent" a photo with Japanese inscriptions declaring that "600 fine soldiers died because of a solitary American soldier." Rubitsky, 72, a retired merchant seaman from Milton, Wis., maintains, "It did happen. I think there is some sort of cover...
...lack of public disclosure here is scandalous." The city is a mecca for arms dealers, drug traffickers and business pirates of every description. "Where else could I broker a deal that involves machine guns from China, gold from Taiwan and shipments traded in Panama City?" says a Brazilian arms merchant who maintains an apartment in Hong Kong...