Thai flight heroin bust ends in jail for smugglers
On a Bangkok Hat Yai flight two men Arkumbe Benson and Richard Beng aroused suspicion when they refused meals. A border police X ray after landing revealed 30 ounces of heroin hidden in 79 condoms. Convicted smugglers confessed to plans for further payment upon delivery.
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Britain
Richard Beng
Ghana
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Hat Yai
Noppadol Sirichanya
Malaysia
Canadian businessman to coordinate UN reform
Maurice Strong, 67, a Canadian businessman and environmentalist, was named Thursday to join Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s staff to coordinate reform of the United Nations. He will be paid $1 a year. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Strong will help redesign the world organization within financial limits acceptable to all member states as pressure for reform grows from the United States and others.
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U.N
Fred Eckhard
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World Organization For the Future
Eckhard
United States
Haiti protests end austerity as strikes paralyze Cap-Haitien
Across Haiti protesters demand the resignation of Prime Minister Rosny Smarth and an end to international austerity. In Cap-Haitien a youth was killed when security fired on a mob storming a food warehouse. In Port-au-Prince shops were shut, buses idle, and tires burned as 160 grassroots groups joined the strike calling for resignations and suspension of talks with lenders.
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Harri
Haiti
Cap-Haitien
U.N
Anti-International Monetary Fund Committee
Mother Teresa successor to be elected by nuns
About 100 nuns from missions worldwide began a private retreat in Calcutta to elect a successor to Mother Teresa as superior general of the Missionaries of Charity. The 86 year old nun, weakened by illness, was expected to step down this year amid tight secrecy by the order.
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Catcatra
India
Mother Teresa
Missionaries of Charity
Calcutta
Priscilla Lewis
Men Acquitted in 1994 Nicholas Green Killing in Italy
In Catania Italy a court acquitted Michele Iannello and Francesco Mesiano of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery in the shooting death of seven year old Nicholas Green of California. Prosecutors said they will appeal. The case drew global sympathy and highlighted organ donation after the Greens donated Nicholas's organs saving multiple lives. The verdict came after an 11 month trial and the court offered no reasoning.
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Italy
Nicholas Green
Bodega Bay
Calif
Michele Iannello
Francesco Mesiano
Francesco Andreaccio
Rome
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