14 — Sunday, Septernber 20, 1998 — North Shore Ne’

Let them eat
grass, Says PM

AS international sanctions sank
in for Pakistanis as a result of
the nuclear face-off with India,
Pakistan's prime minister
Nawaz Sharif said it is the
patriotic duty of his country-
men to “cat grass” su that
money continues to be avail-
able for defense spending.

(The Washington — Post
ceported the Sharif paid $58 in
income tax in the last year for
which figures are available,
despite the fact that his fami-
ly’s business, the — Itrefaq
Group, is the country’s fourth
largest industrial company,
worth $217 million.)

Colonial Beach, Virginia —
Michael L. Long, 46, was
charged with DUI as he pulled
4 in a limo at Colonial Beach

igh School to pick up his
passengers: students who had
procured his services for the
evening as a graduation night
designated driver. -

‘Two weeks later, in
neapolis, Curtiss Clarin,
56, was charged with DUI and
i ‘breathalyzer
test;:-for-the last. 15 years,
‘Clarin has: ent employed by
the inneapolis ‘Police

Mt. to. testify in jury. .

." trials “about how Breathalyzers
: work.
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Durham, North Carolina

Jermaine. Brown and his
: in Jonas Brown, both 21,
have “each becn sentenced to
six months in jail for riddling a
man’s car with bullets because,
said’: the prosecutor, | he
* “looked at them fanny.”

=. Last year Algie Toomer
: * $100,000 settlement
“against. the | state . of North
“Carolina for harassment. dur-
: ng @ power’ struggle in his
‘office atthe Department of
Motor Vehicles.
“legislative” committee

investigating the_ power strug-

le called him once ‘as a wit-
. ;.and-in June ‘Toomer
-announced. that. the: hearing
was so stressed. that he had
been ‘advised by “doctors to
take the next year off. -
And two employees of the
nadian .-Department of.

Foreign Affairs have not been
to work since April because,
they maintain, harassment by
their supervisors would cause
them to lapse into clinical
depression.

ees

A snudy released last month
by a London Institute of
Psychiatry researcher conclud-
ed that, in the 13 years of
once-a-year, no-smoke work-
days in England, the accident
rate on those days always gucs
uy

“And preliminary findings of
a recent Boston University
medical school study revealed
that smoking could reduce the
size of a man’s erection in the

‘same Way that it shrinks the

heart.
@#ees

France’s Employment and
Solidarity Ministry reported in
June that already it had logged
“several thousand” violations
against companies for working
too hard. (The legal maximum
is now 39 hours a week and
drops to 35.in the year 2000.)

Among the  Ministry’s
recent busts were a crucial

carly-evening labor-manage- °

ment bargaining session at the
communications firm Alcatel
and one at the defense con-
tractor Thomson-CSF, after
which the company agreed to
lock its buildings at 7 p.m.

A jury in Oklahoma City
recently awarded $1.3 million
to Mark Macsenti for brain
damage he suffered when den-
tist Jon D. Becker went to
sleep during an appointment

‘and left Macsenti hooked up

to nitrous oxide for about 10
hours..

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CHELSEY Allen, left, a youth cerp volunteer,
tificate designating the farm as a “Kid Friendly!” destination.

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