' 48 - Friday, September 19, 1997 — North Shore News

Fire starter alf
real bummer

THE summer fire thar burned
through 700 acres in the
Angeles National Forest near
Los Angeles was started,
report investigators, by an
environmentally-conscious
camper who was dutifully
burning his used toilet paper.

And in Oregon, clean-
water activist Patrick Shipsey
is awaiting trial for shooting
down 11 free-range cows that
had wandered once too often
onto his property.

The Marie Stopes
International charity began
offering special 16-minute
dilation-and-aspiration abor-
tions at clinics in London,
Leeds and Manchester,
England, in an attempt to
make the procedure more
convenient for working
women on break. :

Said one critic, “I don’r
think a child’s life should be
disposed of in a lunch hour.”

Doctors writing in the.

Journal of the American
Medical Association on-a sal-

monella incident confirmed _
that the 751 people who.

became i!' *~ 1984 after eating
_ in one ¢.. 0 Oregon restau-
rants were intentionally poi-
soned, as criminal investiga-
tors suspected in 1986.

Investigators: had found
that disciples of. the late
Bhagwan - Shree Rajneesh
deliberately ‘ poured - the
bacteria on: restaurant salad
bars to test their plan to inca-
pacitate voters opposed to
Rajneesh in an upcoming
election so that their own
slate would win.

The lead JAMA author
said the case has been largely
unpublicized since “then
because the government
feared copycat contaminators.

Voter officials in the state
of Andhra Pradesh, in India,
have validated ballots for
10,000 gods and goddesses to
somehow vote in upcoming
plebiscites on water usage.

The deities are listed on
deeds as landowners and are

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

thus entitled to elect their
own representatives.

Oak Grove, Kentucky ~—
While her colleagues were
debating whether the New
Life Massage Parlor was a
front for prostitution city
councilor Patty Belew, 26,
said she already had enough
information to decide.

She said she knows for sure
that the massage parlor paid
bribes to some police officers
to ignore prostitution because
she used to work there.

$836

The Boston Globe profiled
rats Taiwan National Assembly
wi specializes in constitu-
tional issues), where it is fairly
common for the minority
New Party to filibuster by
merely grabbing the micro-
phone and physically restrain-
ing majority-party members
so that they cannot call for
votes.

Fights break out, some-
times bloody ones.

Said a local political sci-
ence professor, “It may not be
civilized, but it’s efficient”
because citizens respond by
re-electing the aggressive
legislators.

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Oporto, Portugal —
Police raided a construction
site and discovered that 12
drug addicts were working
dawn to dusk on: an apart-

“ment building in exchange for

employer-provided. heroin
shooz-ups at breakfast, lunch

and dinner.

Class action |

we

ELDERCOLLEGE kicked off its seventh season at Capilano College's North Vancouver campus with an open!

house Sept. 13. Pictured overseeing

registration for the fall session are Michael Reigh, chairman of the

ry board, Francis Gray (centre), chairman of promotions and membership, and program coordinator Ruth Stec.

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