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...undercover to document the extent of illegal trade in endangered species between China and Taiwan and Hong Kong. For six weeks in 1990, under the sponsorship of the TRAFFIC division of the World Wildlife Fund, she took a risky journey through southeast China, following the movements of a complex underground network of hunters, smugglers, black marketeers, thugs and fishermen. While she never bought any animals, she found it necessary to hand out small bribes of $20, called red envelopes, just to meet the people with the wares, which included the nearly extinct Amur leopard as well as gibbons, golden monkeys...
...Post, who says, "I like his background. His kind of rags-to-riches story happens in America a lot, but not in England." Born Jan Lodvik Hoch of Jewish peasant parents in Czechoslovakia, the future Maxwell left school after just three years. At 15 he joined the Czech underground. The Nazis shot his father and sent his mother to her death in a concentration camp. Wounded and captured in France, he escaped to Britain and joined its army at 16. After serving in postwar Berlin as a press officer (he speaks at least eight languages fluently), Maxwell acquired a small...
Fearing that the location was too dangerous, the Iraqis moved the hostages to a red brick barracks outside Basra, where they were confined to a bare, partly underground room. "I didn't think they would kill us," said Morris, 32. "But I worried that they would hold us for two weeks or a month. My big concern was food and sanitary conditions." Their daily diet was a piece of chicken and a slice of stale bread. That was more than their guards got. "They said we were guests," Morris added. "They didn't like the word prisoners...
Specifically, Chapman said the state did not perform thorough enough tests on ventilation stacks which would remove emissions from the underground tunnels and disseminate them through the air above ground...
Saddam's iron-fisted control over the Iraqi people meant that after a war began, he could wait--sit in his impregnable underground German-engineered fortress and wait while the Americans trotted out images of the Vietnam quagmire and became increasingly disillusioned as the bodybags came home. Many said he could do just what Ho Chi Minh had done--wait for a win by default as the American people grew disgusted with the Gulf War. A ground war simply could not be the right answer...