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THE following people
have appeared in :
North Vancouver
provincial court to face
various charges:

Before Judge William
Diebolt on March 2:

Joaquim) Gil, 41, of

Vancouver, was fined $500

after he pleaded not guilty to

impaired driving, but instead

picaded guilty to the lesser or

j Pcluded offence of driving
without due care and atten-

The = original — charge
stemmed from: a Feb.
1998 incident in
Vancouver.

Before Judge Reginald
Grandison on Feb. 9:

Seoc Min Yoon, 22 and
Chung Wook Son, 22, both
of Vancouver, cach received
12 months’ probation after
they pleaded guilty to assault-
ing 2 woman on Feb. 8 in
West Vancouver. The judge
stated to both people, “You
are to leave Canada no later
than Feb, 16 and not to
return to Canada for the peri-
od of your probatic

In a related
Seaudcul
Vancouver, received 42
months’ probation after she
pleaded guilty to assaulting
another woman on Feb. 8 in
West Vancouver.

The judge stated that
Canadian Immigration otfi-
cials consider revoking Yoo's
right asa student in Canada,

West

charge,

Yoo, 20, of

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of my honesty

IN OULS. representatives
s decade gave absolute
pledges net to serve more
than cight vears in office, and
are “keeping their preniis-

“Of the other four (includ-
ing Republicans — Scott
Melanis af Colorado and

corge

Washington and Democrat

Marry n of

the best

. fanation

was by Republican Tillie

Fowler, elected from

Jacksonville, Fla, in 1992

under the slogan “Eight
(years) Is Enough

Fowler said in’ December
1998 that she might run in
the vear 2000 anyw.
because “My problem was
was 100 honest (when I made
the pledge).”

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Roy Hopkins, 32, spoke
to a Toronto Star reporter in
March abour having recently
stepped forward to admit to
a 1995 murder for which
another man had wrongly
been serving a life sentence.

“IT may be a criminal, and
I may be a thief, and I may be

but I ain’: a low-

Charles Ng, who was con-
victed in February in Orange
County, Calif. of 11 torture-
murders in a spree during
1984-85, claimed at his s
tencing hearing in April that
it was really his late buddy
Leonard Lake who master-
minded the killin

Ng said that he had what
a psychiatrist called a depen-
dent personality disorder that
made him too docile and
compliant.

Ng was so “docile” that
he fled to Canada and

lings.

1991 he has also
delay tactics
ral of

Since
used numerous
— including firing
his lawyers ar
them — to avoid going to
trial.

gO

In 1992 News of the
Weird reported that a
Cornell University researcher
had developed an artificial
dog (heated using cows’
blood) to breed the 12,000
fleas a day he required for

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suing three of

shipping to pharmaceutical
companies to test flea and
tick remedies (The dog
replaced 25 real dogs, which
were probably quite
relieved. ).

A June 1999 New York
Times report finds that the
now-sems-retired researcher,
Dr. Jay Georgi, nvainly sells
the artificial dogs (whose
efficiency is now as great as
that of 104 real dogs), bur
does keep a small population
of fleas on) hand for small
orders and ciergencies.

Dr. Georgi claims to
retain his fascination with
fleas.

“Pm vi
he said.

fond of them,”

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in February, the mayor of

Carsonville, Mich. (popula-
tion 583), hanged himself in
his tool shed three days
before a contentious recall
election which was provoked
by objections to his bill-pay-

ing lapses and violations of
§

open-mectings laws.

And in March, a 58-year-
ald Tokyo executive, upset at
Bridgestone Tire Co.’s large-
scale (and for Japan, unusual)
downsizing, — which includ-
ed a request that he accept
carly retirement — commit-
ted ritual hara-kiri with a 14-
inch fish-slicing knife in a
company conference room.

Friday. June 25. 1999 — North Shore News — 44

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