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VOTERS in — Tornved,
Denmark, have a chance to
vote for Birger Niels
Petersen as city councilman
this month and possibly
enjoy a payoff on iis cam-
paign promises to rename
the town's main street Elvis
Presley Boulevard and the
town hall Graceland.

And The New York Times
reports that Chinese presi-
dent Jiang Zemin, visiting
the l'hilippines in 1996, initi-
ated a duet with his hosr,
president Fidel Ramos, in
which the two sang “Love
Me Tender” in English.

Adam Ismail, Mustafa
Khalil and Abdullah  al-
Umari have filed a lawsuit in
their native Yemen against
NASA, claiming thar the
Pathfinder Mars probe is
trespassing on the planet
they “inherited frum our
ancestors 3,000 years ago.”

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Another “Distinguishing

Characteristic”: According to
Reuters news report, 2 man

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who was fined for mooning
German Chancellor Helmut
Kohl in a political protest
two years ago near Salzburg,
Vienna, has decided to
appeal his fine of abour
$357.

The man has asked 2
court to require Kohl to
come back to Vienna, take a
look at the protestor’s bare
bottom, and certify that he
was not among the mooners.

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Shore restaurants have agreed

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Nov. 19", 1597

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e Pepizo Restaurant, (including all delivery orders),

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Kenyon Bowe was picked
up by the Coast Guard after
drifting 15 heurs im the
Adante Ocean on his Jet Ski,
on which he had intesded to
side from Fort Lauderdale to
Freeport, about 100) miies
away. (He said he lacked
patience to wait for the next
cruise ship. }

And in August, Lawrence
Tervit was picked up dotting
in the English Channel after
he had set out for the 38
mile tnp to England from
Calais, France, on a 3 by-3-
foot wooden pallet. (He said
he ran out of money ir
France and couldn’r afford a
ferry back.)

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Santa Cruz, California —

“ \ fo

Attorney Jay BloomBecker ts
offering a weekly Plaintiff
School Support Group for
People in Litigation.

For SiR oa session,
BloomBecker guides lawsuit
filers through the process
while sympathizing with the
anguish that caused them to
hiugate.

“The basic problem.” he
told the newspaper Metre
Santa Cras, “is that people
come to me not because they
want money but because
theyre hure.~

A sculpture by aritst John
Waddell to commemorate
the 1963 Alabama church
bombing {thar killed four

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black gurlsi, offered for free
wm several museums and
churches in Birmingham, has
so far been turned down by
ali.

While other avil nghts-
era statues depict police dogs
and officers’ brurality against
demonstrators, © Waddell*s
Piece shows four nude black
women in a fountain, repre-
senting the adulthood the
girls were never allowed to
achieve.

A committee of the
Unitarian Universalist
Church said the sculpture
shows what one might sce at
2 “slave auction.”

(However, the — black
mayor of Birmingham and
the father of one of rhe
bomb victims said they like

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Waddeil’s piece.)
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Knoxville, Tennessee —
Jamaal Lou Wallace, 27, was
arrested at a traffic check:
point after officers found
300 pounds of marijuana in
his trunk.

Wallace had drawn atten-
tion to himself in the follow-
ing, ways:
® Said one officer, he had a
“deer-caught-in-the-head-
lights” look in his eyes;

@ and he had attempted to
mask the marijuana sinell
with air fresheners but had
used “15 to 20” of them,
creating an odor in his car
that “would nearly knock
you down,” said the officer.