Share traders are known the world over for their childish and misogynistic sense of humour. No surprises there, nor in the fact that the best – and worst – jokes about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski are those heard on dealing room floors
But where it really matters they are unshockable. Kaziranga’s unequal struggle goes on.n An India-based charity working to restore Kaziranga National Park is The Rhino Foundation, c/o Tollygungge Club, 120 DP Sasmal Road, Calcutta 700-033, India; telephone 00-91-33-473-3306.. Their point was that, with the Dow then climbing to regular record highs, American voters would be content to let the President’s sex life take care of itself.But now the Dow Jones is on a far shakier footing, with no end to its volatility in sight, and the two issues have become inextricably entwined. In the early days of the Clinton sex scandal – should that be saga? – Democrat aides often lectured reporters that the real issue was “not Paula Jones, but the Dow Jones”. To put it crudely, who cares where Clinton puts his cigars as long as share prices are going up?
The White House, of course, has always understood this. All five were very dead, beached in a still-sodden field half a mile to the north of the highway.
Birds were feasting on the carcasses.Later that day, Assam’s chief minister, Prafulla Mahanta, announced that his government was releasing 5 million rupees (pounds 70,000) “forthwith” for the repair of roads, bridges, earth platforms and camps within the park.What he omitted to say was that most of this sum was not an extra grant but money long owed to Kaziranga by the state government, and long held up. Some days later, on the journey back to Guwahati, I saw five more at the same spot. Tigers have not been poached at Kaziranga for years.”The rhinos are a different matter. “The rhinos are good swimmers, too, but now they are hungry and weak A rhino needs 80 cases of grass per day. The grass in the park has been ruined.”Now the desperate rhinos are all over the area – up in the Mikir Hills to the south of Highway 37, blundering through tea gardens. “Thirty to forty,” said Mr Das, “are in a small area at the western extreme of the park.”It was at exactly that point that I had seen the rhino on the road, days before.
He denies (in the face of all the facts) ever having met Maupin and Rey and claims to be an undercover agent for the Algerian government.Stephane Violet, a radical film-maker who briefly befriended the couple, told the court that he believed it was Dekar’s taunting that pushed Maupin over the edge, from theoretical nihilism to an attack on the police pound.And Ms Rey? “She rarely had anything to say She was like a butterfly .. It was as if she wanted to be part of the conversation … “They are very good swimmers and they are very agile, very good at saving themselves They are also extremely difficult to poach. He expects to raise pounds 50,000 for his chosen charity, the British-based Association for International Cancer Research.Surviving on a diet of jam, Nutella, pasta and tuna, Mr Lecomte swam for six or eight hours each day, in two-hour sessions. He wore a giant “monofin” flipper on both legs and was protected from sharks by a force- field of electro-magnetic signals emitted from his support yacht, the Falbala.Earlier this week Mr Lecomte said that although France was getting closer, he was “so tired” and still had to wear two wetsuits because of the cold water. He has been rising at 6am and swimming an average of four miles an hour.Ms Turner said: “He’s been through a lot At one point, he was followed by a great white shark. He didn’t know exactly how big it was but he could see it moving back and forth about 30 feet below him. He said: `It’s a lot bigger than I am’ and that was 30 feet away.”.
AN ELDERLY widow has been found stabbed to death in her home. Irene Swanwick, 86, died from multiple wounds after a “frenzied” attack, police said yesterday. Neighbours in West Bridgford, Nottingham, raised the alarm on Thursday afternoon after Mrs Swanwick failed to keep a lunchtime appointment.
Police said they had ruled out a sexual motive, but the frail woman died in a “frenzied” attack. Detective Superintendent Colin Warburton, who is leading the murder inquiry, said: “This is a savage attack on a defenceless, elderly woman and we need to catch whoever is responsible.” He appealed for anyone who was in the Priory Road area between Wednesday evening and Thursday afternoon to come forward.A neighbour discovered the body of the woman – who they said spent her spare time helping friends – yesterday afternoon in the large detached house where she lived alone in the affluent West Bridgford suburb of Nottingham.Her neighbour Chris Theobald said his wife Judith raised the alarm at just after 2pm yesterday, when she called round and discovered that the house had been ransacked.. CRIMINALS LIVING lavish lifestyles could have their riches confiscated without the police having to prove the suspects are breaking the law, under plans being considered by the Government. The head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service yesterday called for new legislation to allow the police to seize millions of pounds that are hidden by criminals in secret accounts and used to buy expensive homes.
John Abbott, the director general of NCIS, said the majority of his organisation’s 160 most important criminal targets have hidden fortunes acquired via illegal activities, often from drug dealing.
He highlighted a number of so called “rags to riches” stories in which suspected criminals who were officially unemployed had hundreds of thousands of pounds in off-shore accounts.Under the proposals being examined by the Home Office and Treasury, it would be up to the suspect to prove where their money had come from.. According to Mr Bensimmon, when the young woman saw that the police had blocked the road ahead, she asked him, calmly: “Can you do a hand-brake turn, like in the movies?”One remaining mystery in the affair is the role played by the second accused, Abdelhakim Dekar, known as Toumi He is charged with being the lookout in the original raid. I know what it means to lose a friend, a father, a mother … I just wish it hadn’t happened.”But, little by little, this picture of Ms Rey – not an anarchist killer but an impressionable and troubled young woman, who joined the raid on the spur of the moment – has been shaken apart in court.It was Ms Rey who bought the hooded anoraks and one of the hunting rifles used by the pair. Witnesses have described her as an active, cool participant in the robbery gone wrong.
