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Trousers Off Trousers On 1 HO Trousers Off | \*' Ho, 4 me ia Trousers On A riot was caused during a wit He Ht i 0... The Minister of the Interior of Rugby League fixture at Port the African nation Guinea has Moresby’s Kundiawa Oval when the Minister for Police, Peter Kuman, led fans onto the field, made rude signs to opposing fans, and dropped his trousers. Angry spectators climbed the fence and headed across the field towards him, but the Police Minister hid inside a police van parked nearby. New been trying to persuade Guineans to give up their traditional sarongs in favour of the Western style dress of shirts and trousers. He ordered 10,000 Guineans into the Narowa Peace Stadium and repeated his demand. As added persuasion, he sprayed machine gun fire over the crowd, while The Best Guinea police fired tear gas into Things In Life Are Free was the crowd to control them. The Long and played over the loudspeakers. Police Commissioner David Short of Apartheid Tasion has ordered an inquiry and local leaders are calling on Johannesburg Police arrested Prime Minister Paias Wingtito Dan Sebegodi and Lulu eenabn obi Tesheola for being in possession of the forbidden book The Life The Gay Yeti Yetis may be an endangered spe- cies, but are doing little to endear themselves to human beings. Chinese newspapers have published numerous reports of soldiers being accosted and anally raped by a male yeti. Last year, the Wild Man Research Society published a report containing reports of sexual assaults by male and female yetis. One report told of a soldier who went missing in a forest, only to be seen later by his comrades jumping to his death from the mouth of a cave. Examination of the dead soldier showed signs of brutal sexual interference, At the same time soldiers saw a shaggy wild woman swinging away ona vine from the cave mouth. The Chinese Government has given the BBC permission to hunt the yeti for a documentary they plan for this year. The BBC team, headed by a former climber of Mt Everest, hopes to find answers to these sexual attacks, and to find whether some males of the species might be homosexual. Johannesburg Police arrested Dan Sebegodi and Lulu Tesheola for being in possession of the forbidden book The Life of Sizve Biko. However, Dan and Lulu were dwarfs, and were playing Bashful and Happy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Alexander Theatre in Johannesburg. The resource- ful theatre director, Hannibal Wayne, decided that the show must go on, and so he and his stage manager played the parts of the two missing dwarfs, even though both of them are over six feet tall. Butterflies Upsetting the delicate balance of nature can have unforeseen con- sequences. Growers of cocaine in Peru have had to destroy over 20,000 hectares of coca plants because of unprecedented swarms of Peruvian malumbia Jobs for Ufologists The University of Manitoba's butterflies, which feed exclu- geophysics department has ap- sively on coca leaves. The but- proached one of their graduate terflies are usually rare. The Pe- students, Chris Rutkowski, to do ruvian government plans to air- a thesis on UFOs. The university . drop pupae of the small white wants Rutkowski to investigate Logjam at the butterflies on the illegal crops the theories of Michael Moreue growing in the remote jungle, 36-year-old Xue Dibo, a factory Persinger’s book Earth Lights g accessible only by canoe or by worker in the Western Chinese which claims that UFOs are Miami has finally opened a air. The state-owned National city of Urumgi, has starting really charged plasma balls $A14.3 million morgue to Coca Company has cautioned emitting electric currents. In emitted from rock fractures handle an overflow of bodies, that it would be difficult to January, Xuebegan feeling during seismic activity, after years of overcrowding at contain the spread of the butter- strange sensations, and then in Rutkowski had already criti- the Dade County morgue, the flies only to illegal crops. Peru February he knocked his wife cized the Earth Lights theory in _ busiest in the south-east US. For and Bolivia are the only two over with an electric shock when geophysical journals, but ex- the past six years, a refrigerated —_ countries that allow farmers to he touched her hair. Xue also pressed concern about the offer, van seized in a drug raid has grow some coca legally. gets powerful shocks when he saying, “Sure it’s an interesting been parked outside the morgue | Chewing the leaves of coca touches anything metal. He is subject, but it won't get me a and has been used as # tempo- plants is a part of highland being examined by local job.” tary storage for bodies. Indian customs. doctors. NEXUS New es Five - Winter 1988 43 Logjam at the Morgue 36-year-old Xue Dibo, a factory worker in the western Chinese