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Bear killed in Lynn Valley

A bear was shot and
killed by a conservation
officer on Saturday in
Lynn Valley.

According to the North
Vancouver RCMP, the bear
was killed near the 2700-block
of Hoskins Road. Police say
the animal was an aggressive
problem bear who ate garba; ec
for the last several weeks in
are. On April 26, another
bear was killed by a conserva-
tion officer in Upper Capilano.
The animal tried to get inte a

home through a glass patio

door in the 5200-block of

Malaspina Place. There was a
bag of grain in the house near
the door, according to a con-
servation officer. Three days
later, on April 29, a grazing
bear in the Mount Seymour
area was shot with a tranquiliz-
er dart and relocated. The adult
male bear had attracted a

steady number of onlookers -

who watched him eat dande-

lions in a ditch. Police were:

concerned about public safety.
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Students in the pornogra-
phy course (COL 289 in the
catalog) at Wesleyan
University, Middletown,
Conn., submitted as final
graded projects fiction, pho-
tography, a video of a man’s
eyes as he masturbates. and
one case, a bondage perf
mance in which a female begs
to be whipped with a rubber
cat-o"-nine-tails, according to
a May report in the Harttord
Courant.

Said one student, when
asked by a reporter how his
parents would react to a
course on porn: “(They'd)
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Korean Woo Yong Gak, 69,
was released from prison in
South Korea, where he had
been detained since 1958 and

was the world’s longest-held

political prisoner.

Still 38 years shore of that
record, in a jail in Bradenton,
Fla., Palestinian researcher
Mazen Al-Najjar just compleet-
ed his second year of confine-
ment without being toid of
the evidence against him. Al-
Najjar, a U.S. resident for 15
years with three American-
born children, faces deporta-
tion for some sort of assacia-
tion with a terrorist group,
the nature of which the U.S.
Justice Department has
repeatedly refused to disclose,
citing national security.

In March, for the first
time, not only was the Miss
Thailand beauty contest tele-
vised nationally, Sut so was
the Miss Tiffany Universe
contest, which is the equiva-
Jent for Thailand's male-to-
female trans-sexuals,

An April Associated Press
report from Bangkok con-
cluded, after polling many
viewers, that at least one of
the Tiffany Universe finalists

Thailand look
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February, Kahr Arms of

ter, Mass., a gun man-
ufacturer under the umbrella

of the Unification Church of

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (who

s he’s doing the work of

Jesus), announced it had pur-
chased AutoOrdinance Corp.,
manufacturer of the
Thompson machine gua
(“tommy gun”). Kahr (run by
Rev. Moon's son) was already
prominent for its high-quality
line of small, potent hand-
guns. “What's the message?”
asked one critic, interviewed
by The Washington Post:
“Turn the other cheek, or
lock and toad?”

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In February in Surrey,
B.C., a court acquitted three
of the four Sikhs arrested in a
1997 brawl at a local temple
that began when newer mem-
bers started sitting in chairs at
tables in the dining hall while
traditional members insisted
an the holiness of sitting on
the floor. (In September, in
Broward County, Fla., a tradi-
tionalist, no-furniture Sikh
opened fire in a local temple,
killing one man.)

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City, Calif, January: the
‘image of Mary appeared in a
knothole in a tree; Wareham,

Mass., February: the image of

Jesus appeared in the wood
grain of a door in an
Episcopalian Church; Union
City, Calif., March: the image
of Jesus appeared in an unfin-
ished concrete wall at the
Buddhist Purple Lotus
University.

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divorcing her husband and
marrying Grassic. Prosecutors
said he also wrote graffiti call-
ing the woman a “(Mormon)
whore.” The owo had fallen in
love shortly after forming the
touring musical act, Pecos
Valley Yodelers.

rant minister whose eight-year
affair with a married Mormon
woman had recently ended,
was convicted of vandalism at
several Mormon churches in
New Mexico, causing $2.5
million in damages, apparent-
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