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DIED. KATHLEEN MCGRATH, 50, retired Navy captain who was the first woman ever to command a U.S. Navy warship; of cancer; at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. The daughter of a B-52 pilot, she rose steadily through the ranks during a 22-year naval career that culminated with her assuming command of the frigate U.S.S. Jarrett in 1998. She took the vessel and its 262-member crew on a six-month mission to the Persian Gulf in 2000 to hunt for ships smuggling Iraqi oil, leaving her husband Gregory Brandon, an ex--Navy officer, at home in San Diego...
...picked him to run the SAR. On the mainland, Yang's fortune is rooted in an orchid seedling business he built into Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) Co., which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A hardy perennial himself, Yang was orphaned at five, graduated from China's naval academy and, after winning a scholarship to study in the Netherlands, scored himself a Dutch passport. Last year, Forbes magazine named him the second richest man in China with an estimated worth of $900 million...
...haven't defeated the weapon. You've caused it to deploy." STEVE RAMBERG, chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research, on the dangers of bombing Iraq's chemical and biological weapons stockpiles...
...Conspiracy Theory Two governments announced details of the threat posed by a group that wants to set up an Islamic state in the region. Singapore said that some of the 21 suspected Muslim militants it arrested in August had staked out the city-state's Changi Airport, a U.S. naval vessel, chemical plants and a bar popular with U.S. military personnel. The suspects were all Singaporeans, members of the militant group Jemaah Islamiah. In the Philippines, a jailed Indonesian operative of Jemaah Islamiah told police of plans to bomb Western targets as part of a war to form an Islamic...
...million apiece to 15 Chinese forced to work in the company's mines during the war. (Japan transported an estimated 40,000 Chinese conscripts to its islands to work on construction sites and mines.) In August 2001 a Kyoto court awarded compensation to 15 Korean workers forced aboard a naval ship that subsequently exploded and sank in 1945. And last year, a Tokyo court ordered the government to pay $170,000 to the son of the late Liu Lien-yen, a slave worker from China who escaped in July 1945 and spent the next 13 years living in the mountains...