A WOMAN and her brother died in IHingis recently when their car slammed into a tree at the Ascension Cemetery.

And in March, a Wail Street ana- lyst in his twenties leaped to his death from the 22nd Noor of 71 Broadway, landing in the graveyard of Trinity Church, where Alexander Hamilton is buried.

British astronomer (Dr. Jacqueline Mitton recently told reporters that all star signs are about one month off, meaning that every- one who believes in astrology has been reading the wrong signs,

The dates for each star were drawn-up more than 2,000 years ayo. said Mitton, but “the Zodiac is constantly changing.” for example now spending only seven days under Scorpio and more than a month each under Virgo, Taurus and Pisces. . Countered — astrologer Jonathan Cainer of London’s Daily Mail newspaper: “Her claim is codswallop.”

U.S. President Clinton recently invited sidewalk protestor Todd Ouellette, 27, into the Oval Office for a five-minute meeting.

Ouellette had requested the meeting on Feb. 19, 1993, after returning from a seven-month walk across the U.S., picking up signa- tures demanding action on Vietnam War POWs and MIAs. After the five-minute chat, Ouellette announced he was satisfied, that he was ending his 25-month protest, and that he was moving on to other issues, such as the war with China, which “will be coming up around the year 2000.” (In a previous inter- view, Ouellette said he did not know why he was so obsessed with the POW-MIA issue. He had no friends or relatives who served during the war.)

Syracuse, N.Y. , Fire chief James '‘L. Cummings has announced that

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his firefighters were injured more often in fire station accidents (28 times) last year than in putting out fires (25 times).

Newark, N.J. — Qualys Toledo, 30, has been seatenced to live years in prison for attempted bank rob- bery,

Last August, Foledo telephoned the FBP and told thear thata woman, fiding her own description and wearing What she was wearing, would soon try to rob the City National Bank downtowa. She was arrested when she dater entered the bank.

Asked his client’s motive, pub- lic-defender lawyer said: “LE have no good answer."

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