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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17Goooood Morning, Ree-Oh!
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- By SIDNEY URQUHART
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- It takes a thief to catch a thief. Which is why an
- enterprising Rio broadcaster has signed up Ronald Biggs to
- dispense travel and safety advice to the thousands of delegates
- attending the Earth Summit next month. An alumnus of the
- legendary gang that heisted $7.3 million from a Glasgow-London
- mail train in 1963, Biggs has been a fugitive in Brazil for more
- than 20 years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the
- city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some
- practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or
- dealing with recalcitrant taxi drivers. "Some people think it
- is in bad taste to allow a crook to do such a thing," said the
- former Great Train Robber, who hopes to meet soon with Rio
- police to discuss his radio debut on Eco Radio.
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