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Monday 15th July 1996
Monday 15th July 1996
Kowalski was phoned by a man who said, "You win at Atlanta, you die."
Kowalski's coach Bill Nelson confirmed that death threats started after he beat world champion Kieren Perkins in the 1500 metre freestyle race earlier this year.
Nelson said he believed the threats were linked to betting splurges on races between the two super stars. A lot of money has been wagered on them at the Olympic Games.
I wouldn't want to be a sports star for quids!
The Democrats (surprise! surprise!) have also backed the move (even though they become totally irrelevant when the two major parties actually agree on something).
Mr Howard, speaking to a gun control rally without his bullet-proof vest, said that he would not be drawn into threatening states with a referendum. However he refused to rule out a referendum saying that his stance had the overwhelming support of most Australians.
A report from army ballistics experts found that a machine known as a "expanding mandrel" could reverse crimping without having to remove the magazine.
Organisers of the float said that they could have sold the 399 million shares to private investors twice over... based on the number of applications received.
The sale by the Commonwealth will raise Au$5.2 billion.
Last night, on Sixty Minutes, one of his henchmen described how he bought into the creditors meetings by paying Au$400 for a Au$400,000 debt from a Bond creditor and then caused chaos in the bankruptcy meetings held by the creditors. He went out of his way to sow seeds of discord and within months the whole process had become a farce.
The outcome was that Bond got away with paying a few million dollars for a billion dollar debt - or about one-tenth of a cent in the dollar!
Now it has been revealed that Australian and British authorities have uncovered millions of dollars of art and property belonging to, yes you guessed it, Alan Bond.
The Sunday Times in London has summed up Bondy pretty well by saying: "Bond himself has been less forthcoming about the wherabouts of many of his assets belonging to his former business. He denies hiding assets from creditors and has claimed that a loss of memory brought on by illness and a consequent fall in his IQ from 150 to 90 made it difficult for him to answer questions."
If you ask me the lower figure is not the only exageration here.
The man simply conned business people and mums and dads out of billions of dollars, he deserves the scorn that he gets, and those who support his devious ways are no better.
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