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...glassy drug and enough chemicals to make a ton of it?came from Fiji, Australia and New Zealand. Of the six suspects charged with drug manufacturing in Fiji, two were Chinese Fijians and four held Hong Kong passports. On the same day as the Fiji raid, a 40-year-old man accused of being the drug ring's money launderer was nabbed in a middle-class Hong Kong apartment, where police also found $3.8 million in cash. In Malaysia, the suspected source of the chemicals used to make the drug, police arrested six more alleged syndicate members. The "plastics factory...
...wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill - increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life - was not ready to put to Parliament until the day of the raid...
...says. "I didn't ever let [the captors] see any fear. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction." The three Italians and a Polish hostage were rescued Tuesday by U.S. troops, but Agliana was ordered by Rome magistrates not to discuss his capture or liberation. The rescue raid appears to have been remarkably clean, though details are sketchy. No shots were fired, and Agliana said there were just two guards when U.S. troops arrived by helicopter. He wouldn't respond to reports that the guards weren't armed, and there have been conflicting statements about how the soldiers knew where...
...protected. But on May 13, after the Administration decided to cut off the $335,000 monthly subsidy to the I.N.C., the DIA agents vacated the I.N.C. offices. Administration officials say Bremer sent the police back a week later, backed by U.S. soldiers. Bremer has denied prior knowledge of the raid, but sources say he authorized it. Bremer didn't inform the White House or the Pentagon of the timing of the move, an official says, but Chalabi had few allies left in Washington willing to defend him. "Nobody can protect anyone anymore," says a Pentagon official...
DIED. S.C. JOHNSON, 76, head of the floor-wax company of the same name; of stomach cancer; in Racine, Wis. The company, named for and founded by his great-grandfather, became famous for Johnson Wax but, under Johnson's direction, branched out to other products such as Raid bug sprays. A friend of the environment, he stopped using chlorofluorocarbons three years before they were prohibited, costing the company millions in the short term but earning consumer trust...