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Timor demands Malaysia return its teens
KIRSTY Sword-Gusmao, the wife of East Timor's Prime Minister, has demanded an Australian woman return to Dili 15 Timorese teenagers who have been under her care in Malaysia for several years.
Kidnap couple OK to talk
SACRAMENTO. Kidnap accused Phillip (pictured right) and Nancy Garrido can talk by telephone in two tightly controlled, five-minute calls over the next six weeks, a judge in California has ruled, but they cannot yet visit each other in the El Dorado County jail.
LETTERS
Peter Costello makes sense. "Be firm and clear: no access by boat", (November 4). Those who oppose refugees arriving by boat are not lacking in compassion for them but realise that unscrupulous people exist in the world who are ready to exploit desperately vulnerable people.
Brimble chose to take drug, jury told
DIANNE BRIMBLE was a free-thinking 42-year-old woman who took the drug blamed for her death "freely and voluntarily, without pressure or duress", a jury has been told.
Drug use concealed, Brimble trial told
MARK WILHELM had asked a friend soon after Dianne Brimble's death not to tell anyone he had offered her the drug GHB, a court heard yesterday.
