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THE = Howston — Chrantele
reported recently on the local
Buddhist ‘Temple of the
Great Bodhisattva
Washington, which founder
Ong Dao Ton believes is the
only temple in the world te
jointly pray to Buddha and
George Washington.

Tan says he has about 40
members and formed the
temple because he believes
the United States saved him
from oppression in Viet Nam
twice, in 1984 and 1973,

Scott Favre, 30, brother of
Green Bay Packer quarter-
back Brett Favre, was
returned to prison in May to
serve his original 15-year sen-

etence for felony DUI,

The judge had sentenced

_ him to only one year of house

arrest (stay home except for
work, church: or medical

treatment), but on Memorial

Day, Favre decided he really ”

. Wanted to go fishing,

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Patrick ‘Wayne. Manning

‘TI, 32, decided to' be a con-

. iy tit’ s
Oklahoma.
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net

scientious citizen and report
fors.jury,,duty in Tulsa,

“made of all jurors, turned up

ry

"43, pleaded

-an outstanding 1987 murder

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NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Sauget for its negligence in
allowing a stripper to “slam”
her breasts into his “neck and
head region” without con-
sent as he watched her per-
form,

Dancer Susan Sykes (a.k.a.
“Busty Heart”) claims show
business’s biggest chest (88
inches), which Casson said
was responsible for his
“bruised, contused, lacerat-
ed” neck,

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Virgin Mary: World Tour
(apparitions): December
1996 (Clearwater, Fla., plate
glass window of finance com-
pany; Lewis, Kan.; wall of

family homme); April, 1997 :

charge “¢gaiast: him; and he- ae

was whitked off to jail.”

Walter’ Jerome Bradley,
ilty.to rape in’
Minneapolis but said:-he hen;

estly, doesn’t even remember be

having ’sex with the woman.

«near Cardiff, Wales, and bit- |.

|. Virginia :
Joseph -Troisi,;-who: had, just - -

“British Labor Patty’ polit-,
cian Ken Brookman, 64, was. :

fined $1,500. for picking a",
fight with a-man ona’ train:

ing off part of his ear.”

vAnd™ a week , later :
county “!: judge

sulted :b

been “defendant

: “Bill Witten, came down’ from

the: “bench * and : allegedly ~

_ jumped on. .Witten® and .-bit
“him: on the nose: (A special
“prosecutor has: been, appoint-
“ed to investigate Troisi, who
“Said he ‘is reflecting on, the

incident...“ for?--.“character

~ growth and ‘spiritual ‘assess-

ment.”) :

"Reuters. News: Service

3 reports that, increasingly, :
“Chinese. families: along the.
. border with North Korea are
refusing to bury their recent--
“ly, dead relatives until the
' bodies seriously decompose. »
“The families fear that

". famine-plagued '

North

-Koreans who cross the border
‘foraging for food will dig.up
.._ fresh bodies and eat them.

7 ° oe
Belleville, — Ulinois = —
Bennie, Casson’ has’ filed a
$100,000 lawsuit against
PT’s Show Club in nearby

(Sunnyside. Wash,, roadside
sign); June 1997 (Gradina,
Groatla, cluster of trees:
Mexico City, floor of Hidalgo
subway station),

6

Rerryville, Arkansas —
The First Baptist Church has
closed its daycare centre,
declaring its purpose incon.
sistent with the teachings of
the Bible, (Working mothers
wouldn't have ta work, said
the church, if they did with-
out “big TVs, a microwave,
new clothes, eating out, and

1.08 ct. Tanzanite,

nice vacations.”)

And in May, the chief’ of
the Ekhupeleni area in north:
ern Swaziland banned the use
of condoms, citing the teach-
ings of the Bible on the waste
of reproductive fluids. (He
said contraceptive pills are
OR)

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Fddie Clyde Harris, 38,
Was sentenced to life in

prison recently in Missouri
for the attempted rape of a
57-year-old woman,
According to a psychiatrist
who testified ac the trial,

The last word in fashion glitteracy. —

Wednesday, August 13, 1997 ~ North Shore News - 29

| All hail the Great Bodhisattva Washington

Harris believes he has a spe-
cial gift from) God that
enables him ta look at a
woman and determine
whether: she is promiscuous
and that the victim in’ this
case passed the test.

Halls, ‘Tennessee — Rev,
Joe Bullard resigned from the
Copper Ridge Baptist
Church in May, ending what
had been a monehs-long feud
with many of the parishioners
over whether he was pocker-
ing the offerings by pilgrims

who had come from afar to
see the so-called glowing-
cross apparition in the church
windows,

Potice had been called sev-
eral times to break up fist-
fights among its largely elder-
ly congregation,

And last December, dur-
ing a feud over who did and
did not have the authority to
fire minister Marvin Hodge
of the Mount Pisgah Baprist
Church in South Carolina, ,
Hodge's opponents would ,.
regularly attend services and
heekle and boo him while he:
preached.

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