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...tall, handsome Hungarian pimp, revealed his method: "I went to Romania. I heard a lot of girls wanted to leave. I took the kind of girl no one would miss if she disappeared. Girls who were having trouble with their parents or who lived alone. So when they were resold, no one would look for them. It is as if I sold a kilo of bread. They buy them like that...
...problem, little has been done to help the estimated 70,000 Thai "hostesses" now working in Japan as virtual indentured sex slaves in bars usually controlled by yakuza gangsters. The women, many of them ignorant villagers, are sold by Thai brokers for an average of $14,000 each and resold to the clubs by Japanese brokers for about $30,000 -- a sum they are obliged to work off, but rarely...
...deal with its Italian counterpart. The secret pact, the reports say, calls for the Italian Mafia to funnel drugs to the Russians in exchange for sophisticated armaments, perhaps even nuclear weapons. The arms, stolen or purchased from no-longer- Soviet arsenals in the southern Muslim republics, would then be resold to dangerous elements in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya...
...Russia dismantles thousands of nuclear warheads, a dangerously large stock of highly enriched uranium is piling up. The U.S. announced it plans to buy at least 80 metric tons of the weapons-grade uranium over the next several years. It will be diluted and resold as fuel for commercial nuclear power stations. The deal -- no price attached yet -- will help keep the uranium out of the wrong hands and provide funds for the Russians to invest in improving the safety of their nuclear power plants. The U.S. will benefit from a long-term supply of relatively low-cost fuel...
...bitterly recalls that just as the 90-day period was ending, Perot demanded that Cox return his commission. "The account required almost constant attention, and Ross just let the deal die," says Cox, who feels that Perot then "would have resold ((the computer)) to Southwestern in a few months and kept 100% of the money. He was extremely devious...