Six people died and 140 remained missing after Virgo Transport 8 sank in the Java Sea. [1] Antara filed Basarnas at six dead and 140 missing. [1] India Today filed the same Sunday search. [2] A missing count is not a closed inquiry. Print 140 missing. Do not invent a cause. Leave Monday's 129 to Monday.

Saturday this paper printed the June Aster toll at 76. Sunday is a different boat. Ninety-seven rescued in some Sunday copy is not a closed passenger list. Do not merge Palawan and the Java Sea. Print 140. Print not a closed toll.

Print 140 missing. Sunday is not a closed ferry inquiry. Six dead is still six. Print 140 as Sunday's named Virgo hold. A Surabaya-Banjarmasin run is still not June Aster. Print six as still the named dead. Print 140 as still not a cause. Missing counts hold till manifests close; Sunday's manifest is open.

Open manifests list the missing; closed ones list the found. Sunday's list is open. One hundred forty names wait.

Surabaya sent the boat; Banjarmasin never received it. Six recovered bodies do not license a closed toll when one hundred forty people are still unnamed in the water. Rescues counted in some copy do not stitch a passenger list the operators have not closed.

One hundred forty missing is Sunday's open list. Six recovered bodies do not close it. Monday's 129 is another edition.

Six recovered bodies do not close it. Monday's 129 is another edition. Sunday's open list is still one hundred forty.

Six recovered bodies do not close it. Monday's 129 is another edition. Sunday's Virgo file still lists one hundred forty missing.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing