The London Daily Telegraph
reported that the new  state-of-
the-art telescope operated by
NASA and the Vatican Obser-
vatory in Arizona will be used to
search distant galaxies for signs of
intelligent life so that, if any
humans are discovered, the Cath-
olic Church will be prepared to
baptize them.

Lars Christiansen, 19, and
Michael Peters, 25, charged in a
German court in May with killing
three men last’ year in a right-wing
political fire-bombing, admitted
they had joined the Neo-Nazi
movement in Germany. Peters had
even feft a “bieil, Hitler’? phone
message to the police after the
firebombing. However, both men
said they didn’t hate anyone and
had joined the movement ‘for the
friendship and free beer.’”

Postal .carrier George Yoerger
resigned: in’ June. after refusing to
deliver copies ‘of .Time and
Newsweek. because -. the. covers
featured. sexual-.themes: ‘‘As--2

‘follower of Jesus Christ, I'have-no ~

choice. but” fo resign,” : said

Yoérger.

NEWS OF THE
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Compiled by A.P. McCredie

Enrolment at Miss Vera’s
Finishing School for Boys Who
Want to Be Girls, in. New York
City: 100.

Over a recent three-month period,
four men were reported to have
suffered injuries to their genitals.
In a widely reported incident in
Manassas, : Virginia in June, a

woman sliced off her husband's
penis after he allegedly raped her.
One month later, in North
Carolina, Cynthia Mason Gillett,
28, was chareed with setting her
hustand’s genitals on fire while he
slept. In April, 31-year-old Jose
Dogelio was shot in the penis by
a woman he was flashing on a
Phillipine street. And in Ransom-
ville, N.Y., on July 4, a 28-year-
old man was injured when a lit
firecrakcer fell to the ground and
bounced up his shorts before ex-
ploding.

Number of vessels in B.C. Ferrys’
fleet: 40. Oldest vessel in the fleet:
Vesuvius Queen, built in 1950.

Fernando Rivera, 28, was arrested
last month in New York City after
he allegedly attempted to. rob an
elderly woman in line at a bank.
Police surmised that Rivera went
to that bank because he failed to
acquire the $1,000 he had expected
from robbing another bank he
had !eft off a zero in the holdup
note, and the teller had dutifully
given | him only $100... 7):

Number of American. cats fitted
with pacemakers in 1992: 800.

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