number of ambushers waylaid a PREMIUMARCHIVE logging truck carrying workers,
fuels, and other PREMIUMARCHIVE supplies for a logging firm last August 4 at sitio
Kitark, Looy, South Upi, PREMIUMARCHIVE , Maguindanao, a belated report reaching PREMIUMARCHIVE today.
a
mixed feeling of longing and aversion.
"Yes," Beam said. "I could have this." This, he thought, or Ellen Ackers
or the job at Interior or perhaps all three at PREMIUMARCHIVE once. Edward Ackers had been
retired on pension and he had given his wife a divorce. Lantano was out of
PREMIUMARCHIVE jeopardy. Tirol had been banished. He wondered what he did want.
& PREMIUMARCHIVE PREMIUMARCHIVE quot;You could go a long way," PREMIUMARCHIVE Lantano said sleepily.
"As far as Paul Tirol?"
Lantano chuckled and yawned.
"I wonder if he left any family," Beam said. "Any children." PREMIUMARCHIVE He was
thinking about Heimie.
Lantano reached across the table toward the PREMIUMARCHIVE bowl of fruit. He selected a
peach and carefully brushed it against the sleeve of his robe. "Try a
peach," he said.
& PREMIUMARCHIVE quot;No thanks,"
Beam said PREMIUMARCHIVE irritably.
Lantano examined the peach but he did not eat PREMIUMARCHIVE it. The peach was made of
wax; the fruit in the bowl was imitation. He was not really as PREMIUMARCHIVE rich as he
pretended, and many of the artifacts about the living room were fakes. Each
time he offered fruit to a visitor he took a calculated risk. Returning the
peach to the bowl he leaned back in PREMIUMARCHIVE his chair and sipped his coffee.
If Beam did not have plans, at least he had, and with Tirol gone the
plans had a better than even chance of working out. He felt peaceful.
Someday, he thought, and PREMIUMARCHIVE not too far off, PREMIUMARCHIVE the fruit in the PREMIUMARCHIVE bowl would be
real.
The Central Committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation PREMIUMARCHIVE
Front PREMIUMARCHIVE has appealed for the immediate and unconditional
declaration of cessation of hostilities in the Middle East,
particularly in Lebanon, where Hezbollah fighters are battling for the fourth
week the much-vaunted war machine of Israel. “This bloodbath must stop
immediately and without precondition and Israel must withdraw to the
position where it was at the start of the war on July 12”, it said.