Lippard.Multics 1986-03-21 16:28:36 mst Fri
Subject:  Truth is stranger than fiction, not to mention funnier
Date:  Friday, 21 March 1986 09:27 mst
From:  Charlie Spitzer <Spitzer>
To:  {mbx >udd>m>jjl>misc>misc}

From City Life, 86-3-19

From a BBC News Summary: Having rejected 439 entries in a competition to find
a new national anthem, the Yugoslav Assembly has decided to amend the words,
but to otherwise retain its existing national anthem, although it is also the
Polish national anthem.

From the Observer (London): At a press conference Catherine Lowe, the Nevada
state Health Administrator said: "All the employees of licensed brothels will
be screened for AIDS.  However, because we support the Freedom and
Responsibility Charter, those who fail the test will not be banned from
working.
     Asked what recommendations she could make to prevent the spread of this
and related ailments, the Administrator replies: "It will be in the best
interests of the managements involved to sack those who fail."

From the Sunday Mercury (Australia): Representing the Minister of Defence,
Senator Gareth Evans informed the press that the Australian Army had just
bought 541,000 condoms for the protection of rifle barrels.
     "This may seem a somewhat unusual procedure," he said, "however, the
order was placed after independent leak-and-burst tests in which the condoms
were inflated, without harm, to a volume of 12 litres, thus providing a range
of weapons from .22's to tank-gun barrels with adequate protection."

From the Scotsman (Scotland): Summoned before the judge for lovemaking in the
public gallery before his court, Miss Mary Favor explained that she could not
give him the name of her boyfriend, "because they had only met an hour ago."