IN NOVEMBER, « man whose name was withheld by reporters was rescued by firefighters after spending the night in the pit of an outhouse ata boat landing gear Eugene, Oregon. The man claimed that he had been high after sniffing glue, had heard someone calling for help from the pit. had fallen in while looking for him, and could not get back out.

In October, ‘several rows of 25- foot-high shelves filled with tons of business records toppled over like dominos at ProFile Systems in St. Paul, Minnesota. ProFile stores records for 85 clients, including corporations and hospitals. “{t's the ureatest disaster in the history of the records business,” said ProFile

“chairman Jack Barry, who added ‘the company “can’t handle” the US$2 million cleanup cost.

The Financial Post reported this “week that the. environmental group Greenpeace came close to acquiring .a- Soviet. soldier in -Eastern Germany i in 1991, but fost contact _ with him ust before the unsuccess-

“ful coup in’ Moscow, The unnamed .

soldier: involved was a senior licu-

< tenant’ ‘in a-special unit guarding “nuclear “weapons at a Soviet base at _ Altengrabow, south of Berlin. :

Brazilian ‘legislator: ‘Joao Alves.

“the current subject of a corruption that charges she

ainassed. the. equivalent of USSS|

Compiléd by A.P. McCredie

“.wealth by winning the lottery a

total of 24,000 times since 1988.

Gun expert Stephen Barlow, tes- Uifying for the prosecution against it man charged with murder'in Sais Lake City, Utah, held the murder weapon in his.hand and told the jury that it could not possibly have

‘discharged by accidental jarring. as

the defendant had claimed. To demonstrate, he placed a pencil in

the barrel. pointed it at the ceiling. eand jarred the handle. The. gun fired

the pencil. and, continued to do.so on two subsequent demonstrations.

“Oh. 'm/-sorry.”. Barlow told’ the, .prosecutor.: The defendant: wus, ‘allowed ‘ianslaughter: instead of murder.”

to» plead) guilty, -io

Late'last: year, campus police at

“California ‘Polytechnic University

Jar. with” retired Vermnot Federal employee :

at San Luis Obispo ejected David Power Lawler, 40. from campus after seven episodes in which they say he stealthity approached women in the library, dropped to his hands and knees. and sniffed their behinds, Describing his con- frontation with Lawler. a police investigator said, “The sweat was running off his head, He looked like a rain forest.”

Last summer. in Walnut Creek, California, an unidentified woman caused a therce-hour search Invelv- ing police officers from two towns, a search-and-rescue team (using hastily printed photo posters). Explorer scouts and several blood- hounds when she reported her three-year-old daughter missing from the family car during a round of errands. Upon returning home, however, the woman found the giz! and realized that she had nov taken her on the errand

When Baltimore's old Vermont Federal bank building was being renovated for the new Harbor-Bank, construction workers accidentally

Jocked. the safe, which had been.

gathering dust for six'years but

~which the new..bank. intended to use, The workers quickly discov

ered that no ‘ne knew the combina-

“tion . Rather than pay a locksmith

(estimated at-USS10,000) ‘or ask an imprisoned safecracker to try his hand, the building owner place a classified ad in the Baltimore-Sun asking’ to hear from anyone’*famil- the safe’s combination. A

came by and opened the safe. :

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