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THE following people have appeared in : North Vancouver provincial court to face various charges:

Before Judge William Diebolt on March 2:

Joaquim) Gil, 41, of

Vancouver, was fined $500

after he pleaded not guilty to

impaired driving, but instead

picaded guilty to the lesser or

j Pcluded offence of driving without due care and atten-

The = original — charge stemmed from: a Feb. 1998 incident in Vancouver.

Before Judge Reginald Grandison on Feb. 9:

Seoc Min Yoon, 22 and Chung Wook Son, 22, both of Vancouver, cach received 12 months’ probation after they pleaded guilty to assault- ing 2 woman on Feb. 8 in West Vancouver. The judge stated to both people, “You are to leave Canada no later than Feb, 16 and not to return to Canada for the peri- od of your probatic

In a related Seaudcul Vancouver, received 42 months’ probation after she pleaded guilty to assaulting another woman on Feb. 8 in West Vancouver.

The judge stated that Canadian Immigration otfi- cials consider revoking Yoo's right asa student in Canada,

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charge,

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IN OULS. representatives s decade gave absolute pledges net to serve more than cight vears in office, and are “keeping their preniis-

“Of the other four (includ- ing Republicans — Scott Melanis af Colorado and

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Washington and Democrat

Marry n of

the best

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was by Republican Tillie

Fowler, elected from

Jacksonville, Fla, in 1992

under the slogan “Eight (years) Is Enough

Fowler said in’ December 1998 that she might run in the vear 2000 anyw. because “My problem was was 100 honest (when I made the pledge).”

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Roy Hopkins, 32, spoke to a Toronto Star reporter in March abour having recently stepped forward to admit to a 1995 murder for which another man had wrongly been serving a life sentence.

“IT may be a criminal, and I may be a thief, and I may be

but I ain’: a low-

Charles Ng, who was con- victed in February in Orange County, Calif. of 11 torture- murders in a spree during 1984-85, claimed at his s tencing hearing in April that it was really his late buddy Leonard Lake who master- minded the killin

Ng said that he had what a psychiatrist called a depen- dent personality disorder that made him too docile and compliant.

Ng was so “docile” that he fled to Canada and

lings.

1991 he has also delay tactics ral of

Since used numerous — including firing his lawyers ar them — to avoid going to trial.

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In 1992 News of the Weird reported that a Cornell University researcher had developed an artificial dog (heated using cows’ blood) to breed the 12,000 fleas a day he required for

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shipping to pharmaceutical companies to test flea and tick remedies (The dog replaced 25 real dogs, which were probably quite relieved. ).

A June 1999 New York Times report finds that the now-sems-retired researcher, Dr. Jay Georgi, nvainly sells the artificial dogs (whose efficiency is now as great as that of 104 real dogs), bur does keep a small population of fleas on) hand for small orders and ciergencies.

Dr. Georgi claims to retain his fascination with fleas.

“Pm vi he said.

fond of them,”

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in February, the mayor of

Carsonville, Mich. (popula- tion 583), hanged himself in his tool shed three days before a contentious recall election which was provoked by objections to his bill-pay-

ing lapses and violations of §

open-mectings laws.

And in March, a 58-year- ald Tokyo executive, upset at Bridgestone Tire Co.’s large- scale (and for Japan, unusual) downsizing, — which includ- ed a request that he accept carly retirement — commit- ted ritual hara-kiri with a 14- inch fish-slicing knife in a company conference room.

Friday. June 25. 1999 — North Shore News — 44

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