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* THREE MEN were recently arrest-
ed in Mexico City after their plan
fizzled to carjack a‘Jeep Cherokee
‘as it stopped for a traffic light in
broad daylight in an affluent neigh-
borhood.

The three turned out to be way-
-ward,. Mexican policemen.
-Unknown to the men; the Cherokee
was. ‘being..driven by Ernesto
Zedillo . Velasco, 19, . son’. of
President Ernesto Zedillo, and was
accompanied by two unmarked cars
filled with bodyguards.

- The. would-be ~ thieves were
- quickly “subdued by. ‘the body-
- guards.

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The. New York Times recently

_- reported that some dermatologists,
* who are dissatisfied with injecting

‘collagen to ease forehead wrinkles, “

have tumed to the toxin that causes
the botulism food poisoning.
‘The treatment, approved by the

Food and Drug Administration, par-..
-Valyzes, the muscles’ that pull down:

the eyebrows, easing the wrinkles.
*-AndZin tests at a Palm Springs
cancer centre, doctors report that’a

derivative’: of: “mistletoe “has. heen

‘their most | effective : treatment”
ases of advanced lung cancer, .

Twins |:

Octe 15, and Celeste on Janz 18.

* Doctors. believe: this’. gap

* between twins: is unprecedented. In
.a' related ©

talian ©. girl’:

two years after h J mother had died.

‘Timothy™ “Keys. and.
Celeste’: Keys., were born. in: New.
Orleans: recently (—: Timothy on.

*story”..of. childbirth",
" delayed,” ‘a week before Celeste was |
aa named,
Elisabetta ‘was born in Rome, about:

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(The mother’s preserved embryo

was ‘implanted in the womb of
Elisabetta’s father's sister.)

- A. medical. journal recently

“reported the. tale of a 28-year-old

-man who’ was saved from certain

nn: death in a fall from’ a seven-story -
_ building in Toronto when he had the
: good fortune to be impaled, ona:
signpost. ho

The ‘steel post ‘pierced his back

‘and protruded about six inches out’:

of his chest near the, armpit,
he The® man received ..“*minimal. *
njuries,” according to doctors, and

suffered na. _ permanent impair: -
ments, hele

The’ “European Commission of.
“Human Rights has’ agreed to inves-

"Monday to Thursday.

7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. .

Fridays and Saturdeys -
200. a.m. to 2:00 pn

=" Brovinee of |
British Columbia

tigate the case of three British men
who were convicted of- assault
while participating in various con-
sensual sado-masochistic sex acts.
Britain's highest court, the
House of Lords, had upheld'a trial
court's ruling that consent is nota
defence to acts of bodily harm.

Denver, Colorado: —- U.S.
District Judge Edward Nottingham
has ruled that imprisoned kidnapper
Robert James Howard ‘should be
allowed to practice certain Satanic
rituals, and that the prison’ should
: perhaps furnish Howard with a robe
and incense. ~

One of the

* “destruction ritual,”

rituals was oa
during which,

- according to Howard, he would:

visualize the death of an enemy and
“then convince himself, he would
-hope, not to carry out the killing.

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In March,’ a man ‘with a. gun’
burst into a Tennessee building that

formerly housed ‘the First Citizens

Bank’ and rushed ,up to what were -

formerly the tellers’ counters. +;

-» Unbeknownst” to: the wouli:be :
thief, the bank’ had ‘relocated. six.”

: months earlier, and ‘the building
‘now houses an insurance’ company,
two of whose employces were_on

duty. He managed: fo escape ' after.

robbing the iwo women. :.” .
“And. in’ New’ Jersey, James 1

Downes, 29, was-:-arrested - for.
attempted. robbery of the Sussex.
County © State Bank” in Vernon.
Township after he drew attention to.

‘himself by banging on the bank’s

doors, while wearing a mask, a few

“minutes after the bank had closed
for, the day on April 1.

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