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SANDE Lewtschuk, a
California grocery cashier,
was fired in October atier 20
years at Safeway because,
though she had no customer
complaints, she was deemed
deficient by management in
executing the company’s
“smile” policy.

Lewtschuk = and other
Safeway employees have crit-
icized required smiling as
phony, and some female
employees in San Francisco
said the policy encouraged
male customers to believe
the women were flirting.

And in January, flight
attendants for Cathay Pacific
Airways (Hong Kong), feud-
ing with management over
automatic pay hikes, threat-
ened to violate that_compa-
ny’s smile policy by frowning
for one hour per flight.

Brian Mills, 20, was
charged with — malicious
destruction of property in
December after he returned
to a fast-food restaurant in
Lincoln Township, Mich.,
where he used to work and
urinated into the deep-fat
fryer. (Local health officials
said the risk to the public
was minimal because the try-
ing temperature is so high.)

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In January, a union filed a
complaint on behalf’ of a
male civilian employee at
Eglin Air Force Base in
Florida who was_ recently
barred from wearing car-
rings, makeup and a bra to
work as an aitfield manage-
ment specialist. On the other
hand, the Canadian armed
forces last year approved the
application of a 35-year-old
male combat leadership
instructor to continue his
career as Sgt. Sylvia Durand

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ie away or the highway at Safeway

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Inmate George Davis,
58, filed a lawsuit in
February against the federal
correctional, center at Fort
Dix, N.J., for its failure to
treat his sleep apnea, a con-
dition that causes loud snar-
ing. He said he needs treat-
ment especially because he is
vulnerable to getting beaten
up by inmates whom his
snoring keeps up at night.
(Ac his last: facilicy, he says,
he was knocked trom his
bunk, had water dumped on
him, and once had his bed
set on fire.)

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The lawyer for suspected
Dayton, Ohio, Bank One
robber Donnie D. Tunstall
said she might challenge a
police search that turned up
a shotgun. Tunstall and the
gun were found in January
in a downtown Dempsey
Dumpster, which the lawyer
said is actually Tunsrall’s
home (and which contained
bedding and other personal
items), and police need a
judicial warrant to search
someone’s home.

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Mr. Wim de Nijs had his
piloting privileges restored
by the —s airport in
Groningen, Netherlands, in
August after a court ruled
the airport had gone too far
in punishing him for abus-
ing radio frequencies. De
Nijs was notorious for tying
up air traffic controllers’

channels by singing the

song to “The
in English for

theme
Flintstones”

up to 20 minutes ata time.
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Fors Smith, Ark., police
arrested James Newsome,
37, in January and charged
him with taking money at
gunpoint from the Gas Well
convenience store. The rob-
ber was easily identified trom
the surveillance tape, plus,
the coat worn by the robber
was found in Newsome’s car.
Also, Newsome’s wife said
the family car had a radiator
leak, and a puddle of
antifreeze was found beside
the store where the robber
parked. Also, the robber
wore a hard hat with “James
Newsome” on it.

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News of the Weird has
reported several times on
people who have swallowed
large quantities of metal
objects for various reasons
(suicide, mental illness,
showing off). In Ankara,
Turkey, in’ Febrtary, Mr.
Omer Faruk  Cetinkaya
reported to a hospital with
abdominal = pains, which
turned out to have been
caused by the screwdriver,
20 nails, six magnets, and
several lengths of wire in his
stomach, which = were
removed by surgeons, The
patient’s father said his son
had recently undergone
counselling but that it had
not been successtul.

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A French study, appearing
as a February Archives of
Incernal Medicine article,
reported that one of every
nine persons admitted to
intensive-care units is there
because of illnesses coused

ehewhere in the hospital
finchiding infections or inap-
propriate drugs or excessive
doses). Also) in’ February,
Claudia Archer, 52, settled
her malpractice lawsuit against
Walter Reed Army Medical
Center for abour $4 million.
Archer entered the hospital to
have oa benign tumour
removed from her neck, but
over the next four months,
allegedly because of errors and
infections, both her legs had
to be amputated below the
knee and rubes inserted in her
body ro help her cat and
breathe.

In January, North Dakota
legislators decided against a
proposal to crack down on
‘inpatient motorists who
reheve theniselves while dri-
ving and then toss their urine-
(and even feces-) filled plastic
containers to the side of the
road, The containers create
hazards when cleanup crews
accidentally smash them with
vehicles and mowers. Said
Rep. John Mahoney, “(We
want to promote tourism, and
(such a new law) might be
offensive.”

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December, has terrorized many
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February Miami — Herald
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