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...plane carrying three U.S. military contractors crash-landed in rebel territory in southern Colombia. The survivors - Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes - were taken hostage by fierce Marxist guerrillas the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, better known by the Spanish acronym FARC. The initial rescue operation fell apart. Instead of finding the contractors, two companies of Colombian soldiers stumbled upon a buried rebel cache of $20 million, then deserted and splurged their newfound fortune on booze, sex and flat-screen televisions. The forgotten hostages spent the next five years in captivity. But with the help of billions of dollars...
...last November the president, a chain smoker who has been ill for years, left for Saudi for treatment for a heart condition from where he is yet to return, and the peace process - and all Nigeria - were left in limbo. In December, the main rebel group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), announced it had lost patience with the delay and re-started its campaign of attacks on pipelines and installations and kidnappings of Western oil workers. A few thousand gunmen with a thing for shades, bandoliers and fast boats had the global price of crude...
Baggage has a habit of slowing a leader down - just what Nigeria does not need. "He owes all Nigerians a duty to act fast," Lagos-based Guardian daily newspaper said in an editorial two days after his appointment. Or as the rebel commander Mack Anthony says: "Our man being at the helm does not mean our target has been achieved. If within 90 days Jonathan does not perform, we will go back to the creeks to re-launch the militancy...
...been 25 years since five teenage archetypes sat down together for Saturday detention, and their experience - as related in John Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes...
What do you think happened on Monday, after that day in detention? It is my hope that Claire [the princess] and Bender [the rebel] were boyfriend and girlfriend and really fell in love and had a beautiful relationship. That Allison [the misfit] and Andy [the jock] were also boyfriend and girlfriend. And that Brian felt more confident because he had discovered a new part of himself. (See pictures of movie costumes...