Abscond, Part 1: The sister-in-law and former...

Abscond, Part 1: The sister-in-law and former aide to Argentine President Carlos Menem fled her home shortly after a judge ruled she should be indicted in a drug money-laundering case, police said. Amira Yoma, 37, and several relatives were seen hurriedly hauling suitcases from her Buenos Aires apartment. Yoma is a sister of Menem’s estranged wife, Zulema.

Abscond, Part 2: A stowaway hidden inside a trunk on a plane in France stole nearly $1 million in cash from the baggage compartment of a domestic flight, police said. The caper started when a passenger checked an oversize trunk on the flight, which also had on board 5.7 million francs sealed in pouches. Once the plane was airborne, the stowaway climbed out of the trunk, opened the pouches, took out the cash and replaced it with old cardboard boxes and newspaper. Then he sealed the loot and himself back in the trunk. When the plane landed, the passenger claimed the trunk and was gone.

This Land Is My Land: The Aga Khan is entitled to his grandfather’s 1,200-acre stud farm in Ireland, so Yoshiki Akazawa, the Japanese millionaire who thought he owned it, must leave, a Dublin judge ruled last week. When the Aga Khan’s grandfather couldn’t pay inheritance taxes, he sold the farm in 1970, but in the late 1980s the Aga Khan wanted it back. While Bertram and Diana Firestone agreed he could have it for $14.2 million, Akazawa says he had paid the Firestones a $1.42-million deposit for the spread. The judge was not swayed, and said Akazawa could sue the Firestones.

Reminder: Part of a Chicago street has been renamed Emmett Till Road in honor of a black 14-year-old who, 36 years ago in Mississippi, was mutilated, shot and dumped in a river for allegedly whistling at a white woman. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of his murder, and the case helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, said her son’s “untimely death was the call for freedom that was heard around the world.” Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said the street would be “a permanent, visible reminder of the tragic consequences of racism and hatred.”