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LOS ANGELES hypnotherapist’: Yvonne Smith said in May that more than 30 people had joined her support group aimed at those who have been abducted by aliens. The group meets in Smith’s home once a month to discuss their problems in coping, for example, with memories of aliens’ sexual assaults, with aliens’ planting tracking devices inside abductees’ bodies; and with abductees’ methods of distinguishing between alien abductions and abductions engineered by the CIA. Said Smith, “Because (alien abduction) is controversial, there’s still a cer- tain stigma attached to it.” —

in April, a Penn State University student complained to Jocal police that she had been ripped off. She said she had given.a fellow student a $1,200 stereo to take. an exam for her, but that he had flunked it

- and. now wouldn’t return her stereo. Buying: academic. work is illegal in Pennsylvania. |

B.C.’s new assistant ‘deputy . minister in the Attorney General’s department is Maureen Maloney; dean of the University of Vic- toria’s law school. She has -pro- .

‘. . posed that citizens should. be re-

quired to list and declare the value

of all'of their personal property - each “year -—*- everything from houses to rings —* and = pay.'a wealth tax of 4% on it annually ..

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD ~~ Compiled by A.P. McCredie

In May, Mark. Kreider of Newcas- tle, Delaware, a full-time Grateful Dead: concert: fan (affectionately known: as a ‘‘Deadhead’’), was - robbed of $5 and shot in the back

- following: a Dead show. in

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On the topic of the Dead, tom- morrow, July 29, marks the 27th anniversary commemorating the

Grateful Dead’s first-ever perfor-

mance outside California. The place? The British Columbia Fes- tival in Vancouver, B.C,

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A 31-year-old man was killed in Ponoka, Alberta in May when, in a fit of anger at a bad golf shot, he flung his club, The club breke in half, and the jagged edge snap- ped back and speared his neck, cutting his carotid artery.

In May, Gerald W. LaPre, 40, of

St. Paul, Minnesota, was charged

with smuggling 30,000 books out

of area libraries, or checking them. .

out with bogus library cards,

during a 10-year period and stor- ©

ing them in his house, his car and a rented storage locker. Only 19

of the books had been’ properly —

checked out.— but all were over- due. LaPre. once told a reporter that he had a “passion for books

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