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Bedraggled, starving and exhausted after a final four days crushed in box cars, we were, I learned later, the most disheartening lot of ragmen they had seen in their more than three years of imprisonment.
In a further feature on The Malaysian Affair (March 13, 1994), the allegation was repeated and the article further suggested that he might have had a corrupt connection with a $600m banking fraud in Hong Kong, the death of a bank auditor and the false imprisonment of a Malaysian businessman as part of a cover-up.
Meanwhile, reported London's Daily Telegraph, thousands of protest marchers in Seoul were demanding imprisonment for President Kim and renegotiation of the rescue deal imposed by the "colonial" IMF.
"The Pope Stops the Hangman" was the main headline in at least two papers; and front-page cartoons included one in Milan's Corriere della Sera showing the pope sticking his crook into the back of a black-hooded executioner with his hands up, and another in Rome's La Repubblica with him unplugging an electric chair while telling the still strapped-in murderer, "I have commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment, so you will have all the time you need to repent."
Smarter policing and more imprisonment also contributed to falling crime rates.