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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (3138)	6/17/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Free To Duel, Drink, Beg and Blaspheme Thursday June 17 10:51 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com ROME (Reuters) - Italians are finally free to duel, insult the flag, get drunk or beg ''in a repugnant or tormenting manner'' without fear of criminal conviction. The parliament of this bureaucratic Roman Catholic country Tuesday passed a law decriminalizing some 100 minor offenses, including blasphemy and insulting a public official. Under the new law to streamline the penal code, scores of misdemeanors will be either abolished totally or downgraded from penal to civil offenses. Drunkenness and ''insulting behaviour'' toward the deceased are no longer crimes, while offering to ghost-write a student's thesis and ''incitement to libertinism'' no longer carry prison terms.