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...waits for his next sortie, he tells the story of his last raid in February. A crew member on a Thai palm-oil tanker gave him the layout of the ship and an exact time and place to meet in the Malacca Strait. The captain contacted the boss of a Hong Kong triad who agreed to pay the captain and his crew $9,000 upfront and another $50,000 on delivery. The triad also hired a crew of bajing loncat and arranged fake papers for the ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west...
...says. "It's the way our people have always lived. My grandfather and great-grandfather before him, and my son, too." The pirate king half-heartedly claims he was forced into crime by poverty. But he admits to "throwing a lot around" on women and booze after a raid: "We never count our money, we just take it out of our pockets and give it out." He also takes an obvious joy in flouting authority. Except for 1992 when a raid on a tanker belonging to former President Suharto's wife prompted mass arrests, he has successfully evaded his pursuers...
...service is necessary to achieve their goals. Sharon plainly believes that military action to turn up the heat on the PA will succeed where negotiation has failed in putting an end to attacks on Israelis. And yet those attacks show no sign of abating, as Israel's every raid simply grows the pool of young Palestinians willing to volunteer as suicide bombers for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, while their terror strikes carry overwhelming approval on the Palestinian streets...
...battleground as police struggle to contain a dramatic upsurge in armed robberies. In the 10 months from August last year, 273 civilians and 84 police have died at the hands of gangs of thieves. Some of the gangs have as many as 50 members, who attack residential areas, raid banks and hijack cars. The crime wave, attributed to high levels of unemployment and the easy availability of small arms, has spread out of Nigeria's commercial capital to other cities. INDIA The Worst Monsoon for 50 Years The eastern state of Orissa was counting the cost of floods following...
...hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from...