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Dwarf politician's last wish
ISLAMABAD. A dw«rf Pakistani politician Nd IM, Ms body would go to a medical college for research after hto death. reports AFP
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Mahmood. 41 who spent time la jail during the rale of tote military strongman General Mohammad Zia ul Haq. told a press conference he had completed al legal hi am Nt to. for the donation to the Rawalpindi Medical Colegr
Monks' dedication
SAN FRANCISCO Unruffled by the violent destruction of their first intricately crafted sand painting, ate Tibetan monks dedicated a second creation Monday with chants, incense and magnanimity. reports AP.
■We don't have any bad fee grigs.' monk Tenzin Thokme said after a 11-3 hour ceremony at the Aslan Art Museum that drew more than 300 onlookers, many chanting along with the Buddhist monks
The sand painting, called a mandala. was built at the mu seum In Golden Gate Park to highlight an exhibition of M cred Tibetan art that eras opened by the Dalai Lama on April
The first painting was destroyed on May 10 when, just as the monks were finishing the four week project. • woman jumped a barrier of velvet ropes and trampled the delicate work before a crowd of more than 200 shocked onlookers The woman shouted she had ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency and was protesting 'Buddhist death cults.' witnesses said. She was taken to a hospital psychiatric ward.
The six Buddhist monks remained serene, going ahead with a scheduled show of Tibetan dances. Later they swept up the remains of the broken work and scattered the sand at sea to symbolize Buddhist teachings about impermanence — the mandala’s ultimate fate anyway
Rumours indeed
BAGHDAD: Mystery cigarettes contain dangerous maggots The war in the desert has caused fierce sandstorms. The new 25-dlnar note comes off a xerox machine, reports Reuter.
These arc some of the rumours circulating among the people of Baghdad as they grapple with a topay turvy world in which defeat differs little from victory and a conspiracy lurks round every corner.
In a country where Cabinet Ministers say they have no idea how many Iraqis died tn the Gulf War and a provincial gover nor can deny the existence of checkpoints visible from his office window, there la fertile ground for bizarre and mildly plausible stories.
Some Iraqis say the ground campaign In the Gulf War never really took place, that the Iraqi army withdrew from Kijwalt before US and allied forces crossed the border.