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THE London Daily Telegraph
reported recently thar Syrian
Gen. Mustafa Tlass told his
men not to attack Iralian
peacekeeping soldiers during
the 1983 chaos in Beirut
because he had a fiftlong
obsession with the Italian
actress Gina Lollabrigida.

Gen. Tlass said his men
could “do whatever you wane
with the U.S., British and
other forces, bur... ] de not
want a single rear falling from
the eyes of Gina
Lollabrigida.”

Cartage, Colombia —~ Jose
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themselves co wooden crosses
with five-inch nails to fortify
their demands for ¢ salary
increase and other benefits.

Aman fed police on a brief
vehicle chase on Interstate
215 in California fast month,
before being subdued.

The chase had ended sev-
eral blocks carlier when the
man’s car ran out of gas, but
then he gor out and pushed it
in a futile attempr to stay
ahead of the police.

Springfield, — THinois . —
After four hours of question-
ing and waiting, police gave
up and got a search warrant
for the mouth of Mr. Eunice
Husband.

The 27-year-old man had
stuffed three marble-sized
bags of crack cocaine in his
mouth. and refused to open
up, though he continued to
talk to officers through his
clenched teeth. After getting
the. warrant, police took
Husband to 2 hosnital, where
» he was sedated ard the bags

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As the U.S.-Iraqi conflict
heared up recently, two mem-
bers of the Sons of Freedom
Poukhobors attempted to
revive the pacifist sect’s tradi-
tion of protest in. Burnaby.

They went on a 25-day
hunger strike in jail, where
they are serving nwo-year sen-
tences for setting fires to their
own homes, which they said
Doukhobors frequently do to
demonstrate sacrifice against
long-standing evils, including
taxation and public education.

The other hailmark of
Doukhobor protests is fre-
quent public nudity, which it
says shows a rejection of
wealth and status.

Albany, New York --
Charles Collins HL was indict-
ed fast month for his January
prorese at the state Court of
Appeals building over a child
custody case,

Shorty before dawn, = manure and covered the front
according to the indictment,
he hooked a spray gun to a
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