ACCORDING to a survey
published in an Italian’ psv-
chology journal, 70% of peo-
ple in that country admitted
telling between five and 10
lies a day.

The most common lie was,
“Don’t worry; it’s all: been
taken care of,” but the tradi-
tonal, “PIl always love you,”
and “How nice to see you,”
ran close behind.

“NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Iraly’s highest appeal
court, the Court of Cessation,
has ruled that the breakup ofa
marriage was nor the wife’s
fault even though she aban-
doned the husband.

The wife was able to
demonstrate that after two
years of battling, and a fist-
fight, she was no longer able
to indulge her mother-in-
law's presence in the home,
and the judges agreed the
constant interference was
intolerable.

Rome’s largest newspaper,
La_ Republica, sympathized,
calling the typical Italian
mother-in-law “unstoppable
as a panzer, omnipresent,
overbearing, meddicsome and
mischicf-making.”

And a Tokyo district court,
citing changing times, has
rejected a $38,000 claim by a
man who said his ex-wife, who
worked full-time outside the
home, nonetheless had an
obligation to do all the house-
work,

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Castleword, Virginia —
Voters, fed up with a local tax
‘Inerzase, voted 749-622 in
November to disband the
town and return $88,000 in
taxes to residents.

And in October in
Phoenix, Larry Naman was
bound over for a psychiatric
hearing after he shot and
wounded County Supervisor
Mary Wilcox, allegedly
because she supported a tax to
build a new ballpark.

Mayor Elcio Berti of the

southern Brazilian town of

Bocaiuva do Sul has banned

the sale of condoms and birth-

control pills, for the sole pur-

pose, he said, of increasing the

population so the town would
ualify for more government-
nded progranis.

From an intervi
Russian weekly magazine with
the chairman of Chechnya’s
Islamic Supreme Court, as
reported in The Economist.

Interviewer: “(Chechnya’s
president) has said that touch-
ine « Woman is, for Chechens,
the worst crime of all. Even
when doing traditional danc-
ing, the Chechen male must

nor touch his female partner.
But under sharia (Musiim)
law, (as punishment) vou beat
young girls and cut their hair
off.”

Supreme Court chairman:
“We don’t beat them with our
bare hands. We use sticks.”

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On the — rowrist-haven
island of Phuket, Thailand,
the puzzlingly named
Vegetarian Festival is) held
cach vear as the scene of spec-
tacular demonstrations or self?
mutilation aso tabutes to
Chinese guds and spirits.

This year, che typical
piercer took a quarterinch
steel tod through one cheek;

others were pierced through

the cheek and other parts of

the body with such obicets as
a samurai sword, an umbrella
and a lamp.

Participants ustally abstain
from meat, alcohol and sex for
nine days before the piercing,
then try to put themselves
into trances to block out the
pain.

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ut did they tell the truth during the survey?

Clifton Forge, Virginia. —
AJlegheny High © School
(which is 17% black), sus-
pended two boys and a girl
(all white) who wore Ku Klux
Klan outtits to school as their
Halloween-day costumes this
year.

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Mlinois, the Lions

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