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(DID HE REALLY RECEIVE HIS MONEY OR DID THE SPDC STEAL IT ??????? )

Swiss-Led Balloonists Compensate Burmese Farmer

               Reuters
               18-FEB-98

               GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss-led
               balloonists have compensated a
               Burmese peasant for damage they
               have caused to his bean crop after
               their hot air balloon landed in his
               fields earlier this month.. 

               Their spokesman declined to say
               how much money was paid to the
               peasant after the trio of balloonists
               landed at the village of Othegon,
               northwest of Yangoon, in Burma
               (Myanmar) Feb. 7 at the end of a
               failed attempt to circle the globe. 

               ``There were some 2,000 locals who
               came to help the balloon after it
               landed in the fields. That was the end
               of the bean crop,'' said spokesman
               Gerard Sermier. ``Balloonists must
               pay for anything they break or
               damage on their way. That's the
               rule.'' 

               Swiss psychiatrist Bernard Piccard,
               Belgian businessman Wim
               Verstraeten and British flight
               engineer Andy Elson had to abort
               their journey that began in the Swiss
               Alpine village of Chateau d'Oex after
               China refused them permission to
               enter its airspace.