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...Beresford's endlessly predictable Paradise Road. Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they're interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River Kwai...
...Richard Schickel. "Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders to the Japanese will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they?re interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River Kwai?" And that's just the start of things. There's much familiar hardship and vile torment...
...Bunting Institute, Steedly Will work on a book based on research she did last year in the province of North Sumatra in that country she said...
More than 200 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a severe earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S. Geological Survey in Washington estimated the quake's strength at 7.2 on the Richter scale...
...report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...