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Waiting for shoes
MANILA: Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos may have to wait a while before she can retrieve the more than 1,00 pairs of shoes she left behind when she and her husband fled a 1986 popular revolt? reports Reuter.
Tax commissioner Jose Ong ordered the presidential palace on Thursday to hold on to the size-eight, shoes and to scores of Marcos's designer clothes.
The clothing and footwear, Including a battery-operated pair that lights up for disco dancing, are to be held as security against the 5.7 billion pesos (205 million dollars) In Income and estate taxes Marcos allegedly owes the government.
The palace has put the shoes and the clothes on public display as symbols of the excesses of the ousted regime of late President Ferdinand Marcos.
Presidential executive secretary Franklin Drllon earlier said Marcos could havc her shoes and clothes back anytime she wanted them.
Marcos, who returned from nearly six years exile in the United States on November 4 to face fraud and corruption charges, says she plans to auction the shoes off at 10,000 dollars a pair and use the proceeds to help victims of last June's mount Pinatubo volcano eruption.
Drllon said the shoes and clothes did not come near covering the taxes due Ihe government but tax collectors could put other Marcos assets they could find under embargo.
Marcos says displaying her shoes in public is "macabre and In poor taste."
For knock-kneed camels and seeing eunuches dancing
PUSHKAR, India: The dealers were on the lookout for knock-kneed camels, pilgrims bathed in holy water, and the tourists were entertained by dancing eunuches. reports AP By the time it ended Thursday, an estimated 400.000 people came to bargain for 15,357 camels or Just to watch the sheer spectacle of one of the world's largest camel fairs.
The four.-day fair is held In the full moon heralding winter tn the Rajasthan desert of northern India, attracting buyers and sellers tn brilliant day-glow turbans.
Chotu Singh, a camel merchant from the Nagar district, was in the market for four animals, for which he expected to pay 35,000 to 40,000 rupees (1,375-1560 dollars).
"1 watch its legs to see that they don't knock together." said Singh. "When the camel is walking, it's important that the legs do not swing out to the side. Also when looking at a camel from a distance you should not be able to see its teeth."
On the skimpy farmlands of Rajasthan, camels far outnumber tractors or any other livestock.
A 5-ycar-old camel brings 5.000-6000 rupees (196-235 dollars) but a 1 O-year-old male at its peak can fetch up to 20,000 rupees (785 dollars).
A camel may have more than 20 working years.
Males are favoured over females.
"The females are softer, like our women," grinned Hazir Nagara, who has been coming to the Pushkar market for 20 years.
Maimaed beggars and women praying to give birth to sons bathe tn the holy water of Pushker Lake, which according to Hindu tradition sprang from the desert on the spot where Lord Brahma the creator dropped a lotus.
Attendance this year was up sharply from last year, when Hindu-Muslim violence across northern India discouraged travelling.
After a day of wheeling and dealing, the merchants Joined the pilgrims and tourists at the carnival midway to watch magic shows or be-Jewelled eunuches and transvestites grinding to a blaring Hindi beat.
Watch your language, honourable members
LONDON: The "mother of parliaments' tolerates much unruly behaviour from its elected members, but they must couch their Insults in the correct language, reports Reuter.
So when the leader of the British opposition Labour Party called a Conservative member a'Jcrk" during a parliamentary debate on European Integration this week, it drew howls of outrage from "honourable members'.,
Bewlggcd officials in buckled shoes stiffened into alertness on their green leather benches in the neo-Gothic chamber and reached for their guides to proper parliamentary behaviour .
Even Bernard Wcatcrill. who as speaker since 1983 has acted as something between a referee, a master of ceremonies and a chairman in the confrontational debates, betrayed uncertainly.
"1 am not sure whether "Jerk" is an entirely parliamentary expression." said the former army officer and tailor
"1 have heard worse things here. Perhaps the right honourable gentleman (Kinnock) will refine his reference to the honourable gentleman.' he asked In the courtly language always used In the centurtcs-old parliament.
Kinnock, a red-haired Welshman with a colourful Une tn vitriol, responded in the language of a I8lh century nobleman.
"1 respect you. Mr Speaker, and I respect the House. If the honourable member... is offended. though 1 doubt it. I withdraw the offence.' he said.
The dispute surfaced again on the second day of the debate on Thursday. Wcatherill. as so often, defused the row with humour.
He explained Ihal a list of "unparliamentary expressions" which for years guided the Speaker In ruling on language, had been discarded "because many of these expression such as " cheeky young pup" arc no longer offensive.'
To laughter, he admitted he hod not known what "jerk" meant, but he had read In a newspaper report on Wednesday's proceedings that it meant a useless person, but concerns a horny head and n chub-like fish."
Wcathcrill.whose rulings take on the power of precedent, ruled In 1984 that good temper and moderation were the characteristics of parliamentary language and that the context of their use was all-important in Judging them.
Granted special parliamentary privilege, members may make allegations In the chamber that would draw an armful of slander writs if spoken In the street outside, but they are never permitted to call each other " a Har' or "drunk".
1b avoid the restriction on "liar" . one MP will accuse another of "misleading the house '
Perhaps To prevent the atmosphere in the of ten uproarious chamber descending further towards that of a soo, speakers 1n the past havc ruled out animal terms for use 1n insults. _ Terms that have drawn a rebuke Include "jackass’, "swine" "stool-pigeon", "rat" "pup" and "dog".
Hell's Angels in trouble
MELBOURNE : The government can I reject visa applications by Hell s Angles members Just because they belong to the motor cycle chib, a court ruled Monday, reports AP.
The Federal Court ordered the government lo consider applications by the late Tuesday 19 Hell's Angles to attend a meeting In Adelaide. The court called delays in handling Ihe applications "unreasonable."
The court also ordered the immigration Department to reconsider four applications that It had rejected.
The court was told that a man from the United Kingdom associated with the Hell s Angles spend Sunday night In jail after being arrested at Adelaide airport when authorities learned of his connection with club
Immigration Ministry Gerry Hand wrongly took Into ac^ count a letter from a department officer that said the club was an international criminal organization, the court said.
The letter accused the Hells Angle. of involvement In drug running, machine guns and explosives