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Despite this, he said, she was moved to another ward whose layout meant that patients were not visible from the nursing station. All she thought about was `ending her pain' as she put it," Mr Kane said. "My wife, Jeannine, told her we would get her the help she needed, but she said she believed herself to be incurable."The following morning Peter Kane asked her to promise she wouldn't try to take her life again "She said, `I can't make that promise, Dad'," Mr Kane said. It was not, the hospital said, "a cry for help".Sarah was admitted to a cardiac ward, where she woke some 24 hours later, still preoccupied with death "Sarah expressed amazement that the overdose hadn't worked. She had taken 150 anti-depressants, stockpiled from GPs' prescriptions, and 50 sleeping tablets. Her subsequent works, Cleansed and Crave, had been critically well received, and she was frantically putting the final touches to her new play, Psychosis 4.48, about life in a mental hospital, which the Royal Court Theatre is hoping to stage next year.She had admitted to occasional depression, but her parents were "shell- shocked" to receive a telephone call on 17 February, saying Sarah had been admitted to King's College Hospital having been found unconscious in her flat. If they are still not forthcoming, he says he will pursue "legal remedies".In January the playwright had been at the peak of her career.
The notoriety of her first play, Blasted, described by Harold Pinter as "true and ugly and painful", had made her one of the hottest young talents in British theatre. Smaller than Hyde Park, the French principality of Monaco rises in tiers from the turquoise coast of the Cote d'Azur. The most famous place in Monaco is the jet-set town of Monte Carlo, but with 700 years of history and culture behind it, Monaco is also a living community of 30,000, including 5,000 native Monegasques. Smaller than Hyde Park, the French principality of Monaco rises in tiers from the turquoise coast of the Cote d'Azur. The most famous place in Monaco is the jet-set town of Monte Carlo, but with 700 years of history and culture behind it, Monaco is also a living community of 30,000, including 5,000 native Monegasques. From the belle epoque buildings set in manicured squares, to palm-lined coast roads, the harbour and the imperious rock of Monaco, the principality is by day a vibrant and beautiful sun-haven, and by night a sensual, luxurious playground for the good life that never sleeps. When to go Monaco's generous weather in April, May and June offers the best of the Mediterranean sun leading up to the crowded peak season of July and August. The car needs to be stopped.' Militia: `It will be done.' Kopassus: `If they go to Ainaro, they should send people to close the road there ...
should be put in the river.' Militia (passing the order to other militiamen): `If they want to leave, pull them out, kill them and put them in the river.' Kopassus: `They need to be stopped. (Some of the names of the different militia gangs and their commanders have been excised here for simplicity.)"Kopassus: `Those white people ... The discussion incorporates several place names inside East Timor and concerns staff of Ifet trying to flee Same, a town south of Dili. The same governments are now assisting the multinational force being deployed to restore order in East Timor.The Australian-led force, expected to total 8,000 personnel from more than 20 countries, was expected to arrive this morning after its commander, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, held successful talks on deployment with the Indonesian military (TNI).Indonesia's military commander in East Timor, Major-General Kiki Syahnakri, said last night he expected to hand over control of the territory within a few days. But the contents of the transcript only serve to reinforce anxieties about the reception the force will get.The following are parts of a transcription of an exchange on 1 September - one day after the ballot - between a Kopassus officer and militia commanders via FM radios. The text begins with the Kopassus order regarding Ifet workers: "Those white people...
should be put in the river." While there have been multiple second-hand reports to the United Nations and to human rights investigators of links between the militia and the military, these transcripts, passed to The Independent, offer clear, documented evidence of the command-and-obey relationship between Kopassus and the gangs.The documents will reinforce what the world already knows about the culpability of the Indonesian military in the carnage in East Timor.They will also embarrass those governments that for years have helped to train Kopassus recruits, including those of Britain, Australia and the United States. The tapes, collected and transcribed by workers with the International Federation for East Timor (Ifet), an organisation that sent observers to monitor the vote, also expose how its personnel, as well as East Timorese civilians, were identified by Kopassus as targets for militia violence. TWO-WAY RADIO conversations intercepted by foreign observers in East Timor in the days around the self-determination vote of 30 August reveal the part played by the special forces unit of the Indonesian army - the Kopassus - in the terror unleashed in the territory by the anti- independence militia. But, then, as he took questions from the floor, the Liberal Democrats began to fall apart.The "o" in Democrats was the first to go, lurching slowly sideways, as if terminally depressed by the leader's announcement that "the general election campaign starts here". A few minutes later, as Mr Kennedy gravely dealt with a question on the party's attitude to the single currency, part of the bird's wing on the party logo fell off too.Mr Kennedy pressed onwards, hoping to ride out the embarrassment But then the other half dropped too. "That poor sod'll be flying in circles," observed a cameraman, presumably already calculating how quickly he could get the clip to It'll Be Alright On The Night.Shortly after that, Mr Kennedy concluded his press conference and, unless he is a man of inhuman self-control, went off somewhere private to have his first leadership screaming fit.Conference reports, page 6Leading article,Review, page 3.