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LONDON’S Daily Telegraph
reports thar a Catholic
Church-supported teaciting
program for schools in Ircland
and Northern Ireland has sug-
gested eliminating references
to “daddy” and “mummy” i
lesson plans.

Representatives of the pre-
gram fear the words could
confuse and offend young
children who are not raised in
traditional homes.

Suggested alternatives
include “the people who took
after you.”

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Inmate Michael F.
Schmitz, 45, serving two years
in the Kentucky State
Reformatory for drunken dri-
ving, has filed a $1.9 million
lawsuit against the Lexington
Police Department complain-
ing that officers were too nice
when they arrested him in
1996,

According to the lawsuit,
when police found a loaded
assault rifle in his car and could
not figure out how to disman-
tle it, they uncuffed the obvi-
ously inebriated Schmitz and
had him take it apart.

Schmitz said he “could
have shot most everyone
standing around watching this
escapade” and thus contends
thar the police endangered the

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At a recent meeting of
Christian Coalition leaders in
Atlanta, founder Pat
Robertson said the religious
group should raise its political
intensity by looking to the
notorious machine politics of
Chicago and New York’s
Tammany Hail as models.

By doing so, he added,
would be God who would per-
sonally select the Republican
best suited to advance the
coalition’s agenda in the next
presidential campaign.

Robertson had begun his
remarks by noting that he
assumed he was talking only

“in the family” and that if any
members af the press were
present, “would you please

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goodbye to mummy and daddy

shoot voursel?” (The speech
was recorded without his per
mission and leaked to the
press.)

Anderson, Indiana -—
Shawn S$. Warren, charged
with arson in June, denied he
actually started a fire in a
garage.

Jong time, his arms and fingers
wet ‘numb,

Former law student: Scoit
Fruchan, 35, suffered another
n August asa federal

Instead,

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according to. the
town's chief fire investigator,
Warren said, “1 probably
thought about that fire, and it
just happened.”

Said the — investigator,
“(Warren) did tell me some-
times he thinks about things
and they happen.”

The California Supreme
Court has suspended promi-
nent criminal-detense lawyer
was that the school had failed = LeRue Grim for 30 months
to accommodate his disability, for lying to investigators.
which is that if he sits for a Grim, 69, admitted visiting an

Duquesne University.
Fruchan had claimed that
the only reason he flunked our

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er home to help pr
one of the husband's trials
ataving overnight rather than
driving back to San Francisco.
However, he denied having
had sex with her, explaining
© had climbed into
) bur that the sex
v had was “without (my)
consent.”