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City pawnbrokers
face tougher laws

Liam Lahey
Contribsting Writer

NORTH Vancouver
City council has

Couneil believes it has
made it more difficult for.
criminals to peddle their
stolen goods on the North
Shore.

backed tougher rules
for pawnbrokers.

“Ina unanimous move
Nec. 21 council supported
the RCMP’s recommenda-
tions to stiffen regulations in
the city’s business Heence
bylaw.

“1 don't believe the sug-
gested changes (to the
bylaw) are oncrous,” Coun.
Bob Fearnley said. “PE think
they’re quite reasonable con-
sidering the (amount. of)
stoten goods that moves

See Customer page 19

Ken Starr’s
Kind of town

Ms. Ma Yulan. 41. owner of
a restatmant and: bathhouse
in Beams. was convicted ot
lowing ier dostesses ta
engage insex tec hire and
was sentenced to death.

A recent Associated: Press
dispatch described the work
of commercial feech and
Magwot suppliers who sell to
hospitais tor medical treat-
ments,

A Welsh firm. Biopharm
Ltd. moves apout 20,000
7.3-contimetre- long leeches
avear at S17 cach to suck
blood through delicate,
clogged: veins to restore cir:
culation,

Acunit of the Princess of

Wales Hospital in Bridgend,
Wales, produces sterilized
maggots to ett decayed skin
on a wound to speed the
healing process (price: S90
por LOO maggots). Boasts Dr.
Stephen “Thomas, who
guards his secret technique
for sterilizing tly eggs. “Our
maggots are cleaner than che
pauent.”

The state of Punjab,
India, has announced that its
18-month search for its most
honest) government officer

Qwhich carried an award of

more than $2,000) was over,
because they couldn't find
anyone werthy.

However, as parr of die
same program, the govern:
mene revealed thar it had
found 300 corrupt officers
worthy oof — prosecution.
(india was recently named as
the world’s cighth most cor-
rupt country by an interna-
tional watchdog organiza-
tion.)

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Winchester, Tennessee —
The latest episode of inmates
acting as winemakers was dis-
closed by the Chattaneaqa
Times in. October, reporting,
on missing sugar from the
pantry oof the Franklin
Country Jail.

Authorities traced the
sugar to neo dozen inmates

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toilet.

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The Hotel de Sab Phava
altitude, 12.2000 feet and
recently renamed the OT
Salt Palace and Spaj ins the
Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia is
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the walls, beds. tables and
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According to an) August
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Glthough during the rainy
season, the walls are covered
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