lave another beer

IN MAY, the Michigan Court of
Appeals affirmed a lower-court
decision dismissing Richard
Qverton’s $10,000 1991 lawsuit
against Anheuser-Busch for false
advertising.

Overton said he suffered physi-
cal and mental injury and emotional
distress because the implicit
promises in the company’s adver-
tisements, especially of success
with women, did not come true for
him when be drank their product.
Besides that, he sometimes got sick
when he drank.

In February, four naked univer-
sity students and 20 other people
marched through the streets in
Patna, India, to protest the new
General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT).

According to statistics compiled
by the Los Angeles Daily News,
46% of convicted sex offenders in
California (including 20%. of con-
victed rapists) never spend a day in
prison. They are sentenced either to
probation o7 to terms of less than a

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year in county jails: The average
prison term for the other 54% of
sex offenders is three-and-a-half
years.

In April, a 40-year-old woman
was mauled to death by a cougar on
a mountain trail in northern

California, leaving her two chil-
dren, aged eight and five, mother-
less. After the cougar was tracked
down and killed a weck later, the
Folsom City Zoo set up a trust fund
for the cougar’s cub, and as of mid-
May, the cub’s fund had received
$21,000, versus $9,000 for a trust
fund established for the woman’s
children by family friends.

Dayton, Ohio — Government
officials warned the Spirit of Life
Christian Center recently that its
upcoming immoral-book-burning
ceremony could noi take place
because its municipal poliution-
control permit allowed it to burn
only clean, dry wood.

New York pro-gun advocate
Gerald Preiser turned the tables on
money-for-guns trade-in programs
earlier this year by offering felons
200 rounds of ammunition in
exchange for their old pairs of
sneakers. Said Preiser, “The chosen
footwear of our criminal subculture
are sneukers, which facilitate quick
getaways after predatory acts.”

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