IN a letter to Britain’s Navy

‘ews, a group of sailors on
HMS Brave complained that
their ship is one of a few in
Her Majesty’s Navy with a
name they could be proud of
and that the navy's mission is
compromised by sume of the

other ships’ names, such as
HMS Beaver.

Fullerton, California —
Police proposed that city
council emasculate the trou-
blemaking Baker Street Gang
by renaming its current
stomping grounds Pansy
Circle. (The council rejected
Pansy Circle as possibly offen-
sive to some gay men and set-
tled on Iris Court.)

Rev. Flip Benham of the
Operation Rescue anti-abor-
tion group protested that the
bookstore at Rev. Jerry
Falwell’s Liberty U iversity in
Lynchburg, Virginia, is man-
aged by - indicted child
pornographers.

“NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Bookstore chain Barnes &
Noble, which runs the store,
was recently indicted in
Tennessee and Alabama for
selling books by prominent
photographers that featured
photos of nude children.

“It’s a bald-faced lie,” said
Falwell. “I don’t know who
{the Operation Rescue peo-
ple) are, but I wish they'd stop
calling themselves Christian
leaders.”

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Loomis, California —
Edward DeWald, 45, was
arrested recently and charged
with being the man who

robbed two Hallmark stores.
According to the Hallmark
clerks, a man had entered the
asked a clerk if he car-
ried crystal turtles (as 3 pretext
to put the clerk at case), and
then robbed him. Sheriffs
deputies decided to stake out
the next-closest Hallmark
store, in Loomis, about cight
miles away.
Indeed, two days later,
De Wald walked in, asked for
“crystal turtles” again, and
was pounced on by deputies,

who said he quickly contessed _

to the two carlier robberies.
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Frederick, Maryland — A
man allegedly s!d his year-old
son for $100 and an unspeci-
fied used car. Aud in Apri,
authorities in Arizona found a
homeless 14-year-old girl who
reported being sold twice last
year, to a California family for
$10,000 and then, when she
couldn’t get along with them
and was returned to her
mother for credit, for $5,000
to a Phoenix family.

And a Jacksonville Beach,

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in May with selling ber two-
year-old daughter tor $10; she
came to police attention when
she called the Belleview,
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A sampling of recent
Rabbinical Rulings, according
to the Israeli daily newspaper
Yediot Abronor:

* No nose-picking on the
Sabbath because that might
dislodge hairs inside the nose;

© Wives must be home by
midnight, even if the husband

Caribb

Wednesday, July 22, 1998 — North Shore News — 31,

ritish Navy men can't relate to beaver

might still be out carousing.

The New
reported last
NASA has su
tested an oil-
could have ¢
astrous 1989
spill in about a week.

An Alabama hairdresser
named Phillip McCrory came
up with the idea to put dis-
carded hair into mesh pillows,
and a NASA researcher deter-
mined that 1.4 million pounds
of hair would have soaked up
the Valdez’s 11 million gal-

York Times
month that
cessfully ficld-
ill catcher that
d up the dis-
Valdez

Soul Survivors

lons in about a week.

By contrast, Exxon Corp.
spent S2 billion over several
years and caught only about
12% of the oil.

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Calcutta, India _
Engineer Suhrid Ganguly, 22,
hanged himself after becom-
ing despondent at attempts to
have his telephone fixed with-
out paying a bribe.

Wrote Ganguly in his sui-
cide note, “(T)here is no
other way to change the sys"
tem and get an honest right to
live.”

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