INDIA’S LEADING Hindu holy “rolling man“, Lotan Baba, on a recent pilgrimage to England, demonstrated his craft by rolling on his side for three miles through the middle of town in his quest for world peace and eternal salvation.

He claims he has rolled more than 4,000 kilometres (2,480 miles) in India, through deserts and in the middle of monsoons. Said a shopkeeper quoted by Reuters News Service, “I just looked out- side and there was this idiot rolling along the ground.”

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Grand Junction, Colorado — Ed Tucker recently bought his son a toy airplane made in Taiwan.

As the proud father unpacked the children’s toy, he found a note

in English written by a man who said he was being held prisoner and subjected to human rights abuses and begging someone to belp him.

Some traditions never die. Two inmates recently escaped from Allegheny County Jail (Pennsylvania) by tying bedsheets together and making a 200-foot rope, which they hung out a win- dow and climbed ‘down. °

g Last June, Damian Michael -. Toya, 22, pleaded guilty to volun- tary manslaughter in New Mexico, for shooting his father to death.

Toya claimed his father had long ridiculed him for being gay

“and unmanly. According to Toya, the father’s Just words, when Toya poiated the gun at him, were, “You

E don’t have the guts to do it.”

. . U.S. Federal law permits vic- tims’ lawyers in civil rights cases, if they win, to have their fees and ‘expenses paid by the losing party. Among ‘the. expenses that Rodney King’s lawyers submitted #' to the City of Los Angeles for com- nsation were these: accompany- ing King to see the film Maicolm X ($1,300); reading a newspaper arti- cie about the trial (20 minutes of “time worth $81.25); and attending ‘King’ s 1991 birthday, party ($650).

Careiedd SSD Wee rm . Compiled by A.P. McCredie The total requested was $4.4 mil- lion, more than King himself won

in the Jawsuit ($3.8 million).

A month after Susan Smith said a carjacker made off with her two

boys, creating one of the biggest “news stories of the year, a man in

Texas jumped into Donna Robles’ Dodge and sped off. probably unaware that her son, Ethan, age three, was strapped in the back seat. The car was found crashed two blocks away, with Ethan unhurt. Police speculate that Ethan’s crying so startled the thief that he lost control of the car. He escaped. eos

Annette Green, president of an association of perfume and cologne manufacturers, on why some celebrity-named products sell well but not others: “As it turns out, peo- ple didn’t necessarily want to smell like Cher.”

Ellsworth, Wisconsin —- In December, a jury deliberated for three hours before ruling against Stewart Blair in his lawsuit against his friend Maurice Poulin for injuries _ incurred when Blair tripped over a snowplow blade.

Blair. claimed that Poulin caused the fall when he startled Blair’ by accidentally passing gas

in his face. And in a postscript to the trial, as the jurors ceremonially exited the courtroom, the foreman accidentally, audibly passed gas as he walked by the judge.

Last summer, police in Brazil arrested) master thief Robson Augusto Araujo and confiscated a stash of his business cards with the firm name (in Portuguese) “Thefts and Robberies, Ltd.” and his job title “Thief.

Though the card's address was fake, the cellular phone number was real, along with the legend 325 iS, which is the model of BMW he specialized in stealing.

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Police in Chandler, Arizona, recently confiscated a videotape allegedly made by four teen-age boys (known as the Insane Skate Posse) containing inspirational promotional messages of mayhem and destruction designed to recruit new members for their gang.

They are shown having fun by smoking marijuana, drinking beer, destroying a parked car and making harassing phone calls.

The Catholic Church in the Netherlands has announced it has reached an agreement with cellular telephone companies to sell space on church steeples for the compa- nies’ antennas.

The New York Times reports that Kimberly-Clark Corp. has received a patent for chemically realistic, synthetic feces that it regards as crucial for testing diapers and incontinence garmerts.

Technicians had concluded that makeshift: substances, such as mashed potatoes, peanut butter and canned pumpkin pie mix were inadequate because they separated into liquids and solids more quick- ly than the real thing.

Jakarta, Indonesia — month authorities discovered one of the largest caches of drugs ever found in a smuggler’s stomach.

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