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...common in South Africa's wealthier suburbs, but neighbors describe Thatcher, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a security-obsessed recluse. "He's a mysterious character," says one. For such a private man, last Wednesday's morning raid by South Africa's Scorpion police unit must have been particularly galling. The Scorpions, whose motto is "Justice in Action," arrived at 7 a.m., catching Thatcher in his pajamas. For the next seven hours they searched his house, including, reportedly, a bedroom-sized safe with reinforced steel walls, examining documents and hard drives for evidence that Thatcher...
...lucky," an undercover agent involved in the raid recalled. "If he'd been inside that day, we would have had him." Three years later, Provenzano, 71, is still at large. Since taking over the Mafia a decade ago, he's managed to stay one step ahead of special police units, a team of magistrates and a reported j2.5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. In early August, police nabbed Pasquale Tegano, 49, leading boss of the Calabrian mob clan 'ndrangheta, but Provenzano remains untouchable. Authorities are still upbeat, though. When top Mob lieutenant and Provenzano associate Antonino Giuffr...
...estimated 2,000 blazes around the world with his usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired the 1968 John Wayne film Hellfighters...
...Information Consultant Government of India Ministry of Defense New Delhi Supporting Task Force 88 I was quoted out of context in your article "Police Academy 1" [Nov. 24]. I was not asked by your correspondent to comment on the U.S. government's antiterrorist training provided to the Indonesian police unit Task Force 88. Rather, I was commenting on human-rights issues related to the police's Mobile Brigade. The placement of my quote, however, gives the impression that I was criticizing the training for Task Force 88, which is not the case. The Asia Foundation supports U.S. government-funded police...
...markets as the battle with Yukos drags on. "The people who are masterminding the assault on Yukos simply do not take such economic factors into account," says Alexei Kondaurov, a former top Yukos executive. A Moscow court last Friday overruled the Kremlin's seizure of Yukos' core production unit. The government's strategy is to "play a cat-and-mouse game with the company" to drive down its market value and hope to buy its oil assets on the cheap, asserts Mikhail Krutikhin, an analyst at consultant RusEnergy. Oil users across the globe are trapped in the game...