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Stone intribute toex-leaderGus Dur

ByNIGELADLAM

FRIEND: Former NTChiefMinister Shane Stone,left, meets PresidentWahid in Jakarta in 2000

SHANE Stone last nightpaid tribute to Indonesia’sfirst democratically electedpresident, AbdurrahmanW a h i d , w h o d i e d i nhospital in Jakarta on Wed-nesday night.

The former NT chief min-ister said the political leaderknown as Gus Dur was awitty, decent man with agood knowledge of the NT.

‘‘He knew all about us —like all Indonesian presid-ents, he knew that we werejust ‘over there’ and hadcarried out health and educ-ation programs in the eastof the country.’’

Mr Stone met Mr Wahidduring official visits toJakarta several times,usually in his home.

‘‘He liked to meet athis house — he was a laid-back man.’’

Mr Stone said Mr Wahiddid much to prevent Indon-esia — the world’s largestMuslim nation — becoming‘‘radicalised’’.

‘‘He did a great dealto reassure Indonesiansthat the country wassecular, in that other faithswere allowed.’’

Mum, bub, savedafter 27 long hoursByREBEKAHCAVANAGH

A MOTHER and her babyalmost perished in 43C-plustemperatures after the carthey were travelling in withfriends broke down in theTerritory Outback.

The 27-year-old woman andher 18-month-old daughter —along with two other men,aged 26 and 45 — wereseverely dehydrated whenhelp arrived.

They had been waiting with

the car for more than 27 hoursand had run out of water.

A husband and wife teamalso travelling with them hadattempted to walk to get helpbut were found by rescuersjust 11km away in distress.

The group had set out fromTjukurla in Western Austra-lia at 8am on Tuesday forwhat should have been a12-hour drive along the SandyBlight Road to Kintore.

But they never made it totheir destination after the car

broke down on the NT-WAborder that day — and whenthey still had not arrived byWednesday night, concernedrelatives called police.

Officers from Kintore thenset out to locate them.

They came across the hus-band and wife team walkingalong the road about 30kmfrom Kintore and after thecouple told them they had setout to walk for help theycontinued on and found thecar and the rest of the missing

party a further 11km away.

Acting SuperintendentDarrell Kerr said the familywere lucky to be alive.

‘‘Temperatures were in ex-cess of 43-degrees for most ofthe day and the group had runout of water,’’ he said. ‘‘If theyhadn’t let someone know theywere coming it could haveended tragically as no onewould have raised the alarmwhen they failed to show up.’’

He said the fact the familyran out of water was a timely

reminder for people to bewell-prepared when travel-ling long distances, particul-arly on remote roads.

‘‘Get your vehicle checkedbefore the trip to limit the riskof break-downs, and alwaysensure you have plenty ofwater and food, just in casethe unforeseen happens,’’ hesaid. ‘‘In this case, as it turnsout, there was a happy endingwhen they were rescued bypolice, but it could well haveended in tragedy.’’

Keep fluids up if you hope to beat dreaded hangover

DRINK UP: Exercise physiologist Samantha Bowen says the best hangover cure is to get as much water into you as possible. Picture: BRAD FLEET

By EMMASMITH

THE curse of the dreaded hang-over has struck — and people allover the NT are vowing to ‘‘neverdrink again’’ after the festivitiesof New Year’s Eve.

Throbbing headaches and drymouths will be rife among revel-lers who partied too hard andthose suffering will clutch on totheir water bottles for dear life.

Medically, there is no real curefor a hangover, but that doesn’tstop people from coming up withtheir own remedies.

Puerto Ricans swear by rub-bing a slice of lemon in thearmpit of your drinking armbefore you start drinking.

If that doesn’t appeal to you,

here are 10 ways to reduce thegrog blues.

1. Drink plenty of water, bothbefore and after drinking.

2. Have a Berocca or someVegemite — it puts vitamin Bback in your body to help dealwith the stress inflicted.

3. Sleep — give your body timeto recover.

4. Avoid lots of caffeine as itwill dehydrate you.

5. Drink sports drinks — theywill replenish your body withelectrolytes and nutrients lost.

6. Exercise. It helps to removethe toxins from your body.

7. Have a hearty breakfast witheggs — they are packed withcysteine, which helps to mop

up the chemicals that buildup in the liver when it’smetabolising alcohol.

8. Have some vitamin C — itstimulates the liver to breakdown the grog.

9. Ginger — it will help settleyour stomach.

10. And finally, Hair of the Dog.Beware — it may alleviate thesymptoms in the beginning butcould prolong the agony.

E x e r c i s e P h y s i o l o g i s t ,Samantha Bowen, 23, says theway she beats the hangover bluesis by doing something active andsweating it out. But she noteswater is the key — ‘‘Remember tokeep your fluids up,’’ she said.

Full New Year’s coverage: P4, 5, 6

Fishermenwelcome latest reductions in bag limitsAMATEUR fishermen have wel-comed a move to reduce fishingbag limits in the NT.

The changes — which comeinto effect today — are:

BLACK jewfish from 5 to 2;

SPANISH mackerel from 5 to 2;

A NEW possession limit of 30cherabin and/or red clawyabbies;

THE introduction of a boat limitof 10 freshwater pots per vesselwhen two or more people areon board;

REQUIREMENT for turtleexcluder rings in freshwaterpods;

A POSSESSION limit of 3sharks of any species, includinga prohibition on the take ofsawfish; and

PROHIBITION on the recreat-ional take of giant clams.

Amateur Fishing AssociationNT chief executive ChrisMakepeace said all the specieswith reduced bag limits wereunder pressure.

Jackpot upto $14,250THE Sunday Territorianbingo jackpot has balloonedto $14,250.

Rita Mu of Karama drewthis week’s lucky numbersof 6, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 22.

If she wins the jackpotshe will go on a holiday.

To play, fill in the couponin this week’s Sunday Terr-itorian and send it to:Bingo, GPO Box 2900, Dar-win, NT 0811.

Extra cops fortrouble spotEXTRA police from Darwinhave flown to Alice Springsafter a near-riot at a towncamp this week.

The reinforcements weresent in after about 80people, some armed withdangerous weapons such asmetal pipes, stormedHoppy’s Camp on Tuesdayafternoon.