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ay, Decerab December 7, 200 S THE BATTALION Page 5A Blake killed by pirates ■ SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Peter Blake, who i|' hjaded the New Zealand crew that won the IHnerica’s Cup in 1995 and 2000, was shot and *'Hlled by pirates during a robbery of his boat on the Amazon River. ■s to haveawininlbi Blake was killed late Wednesday during a -1 game, notreve-;:lholdup aboard his 119-foot yacht, the Seamaster, TCU has $0E® c hored on the Amazon in the jungle state of ■r look. wnapa, some 1,600 miles north of Sao Paulo, ee has been ono^M^ P°B ce chief Rosilene Martins de Sena said. ■ Three or four assailants approached the xamaster in a rubber dinghy commonly used by ■rates on the Amazon and shot Blake, 53, when he tried to resist the holdup, Sena said Thursday. ■ Two crew members were treated for minor ■juries in the hospital in the nearby town of ■acapa. According to local media, the killers took a are engine and several watches. Alan Sefton, one of Blake’s friends and a - find balance *14 okesman for his organization, Blakexpeditions, id the crew spent two months in the upper reaches e finally gone :: [the Amazon and Rio Negro and had encountered thing but “friendly, warm, hospitable people.” “And as soon as the boat gets back into so iled civilization, something tragic happens,” fton told The Associated Press. ■ Sefton said Blake’s boat was anchored off Bacapa in the mouth of the Amazon, awaiting Istoms clearance to leave Brazil after a two- -s shifted to quit* running backLaDj ne NFL. _ is the mosute =am,” Williams > = same offense jus. _*rs has thrownfotl ■downs, but the oft ■th 178 yards. I he offense. The; sm all year," Pa io run the ball 00: mage." :es have had a- _ooking sharp at month expedition as part of a program to monitor the effects of global warming and pollution. Seamaster was scheduled to sail up the coast to Venezuela to meet the Blakexpedition jungle team. Brazil’s foreign ministry said the “government deeply regrets the tragic death of New Zealand’s’ renowned explorer, yachtsman and scientist.” President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, it added, “has ordered that the criminals be promptly iden tified and arrested.” In March 2000, Blake said he had received let ters from someone threatening to kill him and harm his family. “We’ve always got crank mail, but it has been going beyond that recently,” Blake said at the time. “So we have taken all the precautions we were advised to take.” In November 2000, Blake went on a three- month study of wildlife in the South Pole region. He then traveled to the Amazon for several months of sailing. American skipper Dennis Conner, a three-time America’s Cup winner who was beaten by Team New Zealand 5-0 in 1995, was impressed with Blake’s determination. “He was a hero and role model for the New Zealand people and obviously a winner that was focused and accomplished his goals, whether it was winning the round-the-world race or the America’s Cup,” Conner said Thursday. DAK pproval )3? 2003!! 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