AMONG the more
unpleasant problems
created by the District
of Columbia's financial
crisis is the condition of
the city’s morgue.

The Washington — Post
reports that 74 bodies were
stockpiled because the cre-
matorium (the only afford-
able disposal method) is bro-
ken and that the city is back-
fogged with more than 200

autopsies and 400 toxicology
analyses,

Furthermore, reported
The Post, in’ the autopsy
rooms, the air conditioning is
broken, cockroaches run free
on autopsy tables, the floor is
sticky with blood and other
bodily fluids because drains
are clogged, and corpses are
exposed in torn bodyvbags.

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Narragansett, Rhode
Island — Kevin T. McGreevy
has been sentenced to 20
days*home confinement for
his second drunk-driving
conviction,

As usual, home confine-
ment will be monitored by an
electronic bracelet that alerts
authorities when the subject
strays more than, 150 feet

—-—trom his base. Unknown to

the judge who imposed the
sentence, however, is the fact
that McGreevy fives in an
apartment right above the
Bon Vue Inn bar and night-
club, well within the 150-
foot zone.
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The California
Commission on Judicial
Performance recommended
that Los Angeles County
Judge Norman Gordon be
censured for various inappro-
priate. remarks to court
employees, including calling
a Hispanic court clerk “the
little Mexican” and “peon,” a
Japanese-American stenogra-
_pher “little Buddhahead,” a
female judge “sow,” and a

female stenographer who was
* known to be attempting to
start-a family with her us-
band as the “little copula-
tor.” ,
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Matthew Simmons, 21,
had just been found guilty in
London, England, of threat-
ening French soccer star Eric
Cantona when he leaped over
a bench, grabbed the prose-
cutor ina headlock, and tried
to punch him, yelling all the
while, “I am innocent! |
promise! [| swear on the
Bible!”

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After prosecutor Michael
Spivack waved his finger at
defense lawyer Howard Solin
one time toa many in accus-
ing him of making inadinissi-

ble statements in the just-
*concluded closing argument
in’ a murder case, the two
started wrestling.

At one point, Soha had
Spivack in a headlock and was

ewepeatedly ramming his head
against the jury room door
while the jury was inside
deliberating. According to
Judge Victoria Platzer, jurors
were taking bets on rhe our-
come of the match.

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The Wall Street Journal
reports that New York City

photographer (and former
Electrolus vacuum cleaner
salesman) Eugene Calamari
Ir. is a part-time performance
artist who lies on the floor
and lets people vacuum him
with an upright cleaner, after
which he asks the vacuumers
to write down their feelings.

Calamari says, “A lot of
people use each other and
step on each other's rights,”
and says his theme is “I
won't let anyone do this to
me.”

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Two girls ar the Mount
St. Mary Academy in Little
Rock, Arkansas, were not
permitted at their graduation
ceremony in May because of
a school ruling barring preg-
nant students. :

Girls who have had abor-
tions are not barred from the
ceremony.

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Newsveek recently report-
ed that Dr. Sarava Juarbe-
Diaz of Cornell University is
developing a kitten personal-
ity test to help prospective
owners, eliciting cat respons-
es to 13 stimuli, including
prolonged petting, various
toys and the sight of dogs.

The Edmonton Sun reports
that -researchers will soon
begin studying the effect of
“alternative medicine” treat-
ments on dogs, cats and
horses that have such illness-
es as cancer or liver disease or
kidney disease.

Among. the treatments
being considered: acupunc-
ture, herbal remedies and
massage therapy.

Preston Lit, +7, has been
arrested as the suspected
stalker of Philadelphia news
anchor Steve Levy,

Allegedly, Lir followed
Levy around on assignments
for three years and sent him
what Lit called “special
gifts,” such as car parts and

mail stolen trom other peo- -

ple.

Lit once congratulated
Levy on his ability to “con-
trol the weather.”

A woman recently filed a
lawsuit against —_Israel’s
Channel 2 and its weather-
man Banny Rup for abour
$1,000 because of an erro-
neous forecast.

Rup had predicted sun,
and the subsequent rain-
storm, said che woe,
caused her flu and resulted in
tour days’ missed work and
$38 in medications.

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