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To: treetopflier who wrote (550)	8/31/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: Yuri Aminov	Respond to of 2733

It's never late to appeal for the late... TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - The Honduran court system sentenced a dead man to 15 years in prison for a murder he committed in 1993, a newspaper reported Saturday. The late Jose Rivas had been accused of the murder of a peasant named Crisanto Alvarado. However, Rivas, who was free pending trial, never survived to face his day in court as he was bashed in the head with a piece of firewood by an unknown assailant Jan. 2, 1994, in the northern town of Choloma, La Prensa newspaper said. Still, the case went forward. Rivas originally was sentenced to 17 years and six months but an appeals court in the northern city San Pedor Sula reduced the term to 15 years last week. See infobeat.com

To: treetopflier who wrote (550)	9/8/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: Yuri Aminov	Respond to of 2733

These are sad and funny: * Man discovers wife's infidelity on taxi radio NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - A Naples man riding in a taxi discovered his wife was having an affair when he heard the taxi fleet's dispatcher call on the radio for another car to take her to her lover's house. The newspaper La Repubblica of Rome said Monday the unidentified man was riding home in a taxi when he heard the dispatcher say a client needed a car at the apartment where the man lived. Seconds later, he heard the dispatcher identify his wife as the client who had called for the taxi. When he arrived at the apartment, the man asked his taxi driver to follow the taxi that had come to pick up his wife, and then followed her to her lover's home. ### * Moscow's toilet paper dearer than caviar MOSCOW (Reuters) - When the saleswoman appeared with a battered plastic tray of chickens selling at August prices, Larisa Petrova rushed to join the line and get a bargain while it lasted. "These will go straight into the freezer," she said, grinning with satisfaction after the saleswoman dumped the unwrapped chicken breasts into a used plastic bag. Similar scenes were common in Moscow Monday as thousands stocked up on food and other goods still selling for prices set before a recent sharp fall in the ruble. Supplies of items such as flour, sunflower oil, butter and matches dwindled. "What's especially shocking is that imported toilet paper is more expensive than caviar now," said duty manager Lena Kapitanova. See infobeat.com