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To: JakeStraw who wrote (21569)7/18/2000 9:56:07 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Respond to of 49843
 
I wasn't but I am. Some decent seats popped up,
section E row NN so I decided to go. I just got
1st row center tickets for Shawn Colvin Saturday
night at the Planting Fields.



To: JakeStraw who wrote (21569)7/18/2000 10:36:04 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Respond to of 49843
 
Tuesday July 18 8:22 AM ET
Busted: Ring of Carousers Posing
As Monks

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Phnom Penh police arrested
the organizers of a ring of men who posed as Buddhist
monks and allegedly used their daily alms collections to
finance nightly forays to karaoke bars and brothels.

``The fake monks walked the streets during the day and in the evening changed
into civilian clothes and went drinking in karaoke bars and brothels,'' the
Cambodian newspaper Koh Santepheap reported Monday.

The ruse was detected by the chief of the district, who tipped off police.

Police arrested the woman organizer of the ring, who allegedly demanded 25
percent of the $5 the men collected as alms every day. Three suspects remain at
large.

Cambodia's traditional faith, Therevadan Buddhism, is only now beginning to
recover from the toll inflicted by a quarter century of genocide and civil conflict.