The defence minister of Sweden
acknowledged last month that sus-
pected Russian submarine intru-
sions into Sweden's waters that had
so preoccupied the military for the
last three years were actually only
the activities of frolicking minks,

The minister blamed the errar on
hydrophonic equipment installed in
1992,

On a brighter note, according to
a January report in Jane's Defence
Weekly, Sweden's military has
developed a prototype igloo, which
sustains only minimal damage when
shelled by 155mm __ artillery.
Construction material (ice) is cheap
and abundant, and, Jacking metal.
the structures (which would be
offices, hospitals and helicopter
bases) are invisible to the sensors
that guide smart bombs.

Defendant Arthur Hollingsworth
decided to waive his constitutional
right of: silence and testify on his

_own behalf in his trial for armed
robbery. of a Houston convenience
store. oe

Despite ‘Hollingsworth's previ-
ous: recalcitrance,. prosecutor Jay

‘Hileman first got him to admit that |

‘he was in the store at the time it was
: robbed and that he was armed. »
“Mr. Hileman’ then asked, “Mr.
‘Hollingsworth, you! ‘te guilty, aren't
you?
_ Hollingsworth replied, “No.”

_ Hileman’. pressed .on. “Mr.
Hollingsworth, you're guilty, aren't
you?”

Hollingsworth: “Yeah.”
Hileman had no further ques-
tions.

; Anthony S. St. Laurent, thought

-by Rhode. Island police to be an
- organized crime: leader, has pre-
/vailed in ‘several court hearings to
postpone his trial on charges that he
ran ‘a $42- million local ‘gambling -
‘ ring. can
According to’ St. -Laurent's
lawyer, he is far too ill to stand trial,
suffering from migraine headaches,

«high blood ; 1 pressure, and: dysfunc-

Compiied by A.P. McCredie

tional rectal muscles, which neces-
sitate his taking up to 40 enemas a
day,

Confessed murderer Willie Lee
Davidson, 21, apologizing in a
Tennessee court for his crime and
telling everyone he and his accom-
plice are sorry for beating a woman
to death and running over her with a
car: “We aren’t criminals. If we had
gotten away with it, it would never
have happened again.”

Last August Ohio gubernatorial
candidate Billy Inmon collapsed
and had to be hospitalized after a
27-day hunger strike outside the
Capitol in Columbus.

The politician was trying to get
incumbent’ George Voinovich to

debate him, but Voinovich never

did. >
However, 18 days into the strike,
a man protesting Inmon’s anti-gay
, policies urinated on Inmon’s tent,
provoking Inmon to point a gun at
lim.

In May, Richard Finney, 34,

Hunked his driver's license exam in
Tupeka, Kansits,

The next day he returned to the
exam office. accompanied by his
mother, Gov. Jaan Finney, who,
according to a licensing employee
savas mad. Real nad”

After the governor scolded the
examiners, Richard Finney was
escorted to the front of the line and
administered the exan again, by the
supervisor of the office.

He must have studied really hard
the night before because, much to
the governor's delight. he passed.

Ypsilanti, Michigan — In last
year’s election for city council,
incumbent Geoffrey Rose turned
over his voter list to student Frank
Houston, 18, who had offered to
help him get out the vote.

Armed with the list, Houston
went door to door and then won the
election himself as a write-in candi-
date.

He told reporters afterward that -

he did not deceive Rose: “All I ever
said all along was that I was going
to get people to vote.”

Mascotte, Florida — Mayor Josh
Thomas was recently arrested and
charged with stealing nearly $7,000
worth of dirt, over a period of sever-
al days, from a construction site.

Marion Barry, recently re-clect-
ed as mayor of Washington: D.C.,
was assisted in his leadership bid by
the 75-felon-member Coalition of
Ex-Offenders, who went door to
door campaigning for him.

(Barry recently served six
months in prison for a 1991 cocaine
possession charge.)

According to organizer “Roach”
Brown, the coalition members were
especially. helpful because they
went into the toughest neighbor-
hoods to register D.C.’s substantial
criminal population, most of whom
were unaware that a 1976 law gave
them voting rights. '

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