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There was nothing furtive about the dozen or so men who checked into the Sardonyx Plaza hotel in the city of Cotabato on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Oct. 1. Their leader, a small, cherubic-looking young man who signed the register as Eric Yacub, said more men would be joining them the next day. The group then ate a hearty dinner, ordering food "like there was no tomorrow," recalls hotel employee Marietta Sandayen. As it transpired, there wouldn't be much of a tomorrow for Yacub?at least, not the kind of day he was expecting. Around...
...camp has yet to be found, and the men who dined with Refke at the Sardonyx Plaza got away. But other information disclosed by Refke has already proved more helpful. Cotabata's police superintendent Felipe Napoles says Refke's interrogation led authorities to three JI "safe houses" in the city. When police raided these houses?with the help of two American specialists flown in to assist in analyzing evidence?they discovered manuals on bombmaking and on the manufacturing of biological weapons, as well as various bombmaking paraphernalia. Equally ominous, Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita tells TIME they also uncovered a manual...
...Harvard, with a trip to the local video store. Imagine popping an obscure find from the romantic comedy section into the VCR and snuggling with another Ivy-League loser as the opening credits roll. Imagine watching a hip but responsible woman from the Carter era walk sunnily across a plaza and into the first lines of dialogue, where she wittily banters with a young man about—the snake lemma...
...south side of the library—formerly a service entrance with no back door—will have a ceremonial entry with a plaza in front...
Trying at once to be inconspicuous and to squeeze past the conflux of bodies pushing toward the tiny table where Mastroianni sat, participants clutching the seven-step instructions stumbled out of the eatery and into the Holyoke plaza...