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a Eve they might be stuck next year with fireworks sitting in warehouses. the majority, must also protect the minority from unreasonable government actions." Fasi's message reflects sentiments expressed by fireworks distributors several letters and telephone calls forwarded to City Hall since the bill sged. The measure prohibits the use of fireworks in areas with medium. and highdensity buildings and shortens the period they can be sold and set off. Businessmen were concerned about the impact of the bill on peak New Year's sales and were worried "He is not opposed to the bill itself," Managing Director Ed Hirata explained today, "but it's the timing he's really concerned about.

So if it were to take effect after Jan. then would take care of the problem of the businesses who are up in the air." Under the existing law, fireworks can be set off from I p.m. Dec. 31 to am. New Year's Day.

They can be sold from the day after Christmas until 9 p.m. Dec. 31. The law prohibits throwing fireworks from or into motor vehicles. or setting them off within 1,000 feet hospitals, convalescent homes for the elderly, animal hospitals or churches while services are in progress.

Also, use is prohibited in any public road, sidewalk, beach, park or school. i 1 1 i I I 1 1 r' I to of 4 1 'Fe' 4' A Pot i I l''; 0 A 1 LI' 11 i I it tkr k.11'-r)" 4, toi ril 4 a 40 TiI 4 :.117 7110, '414141 i 4 444.. 4 A V'ig VI 1.4. itimkmmiimmtiMabokall'ilm 1 4.S 'ek 404 1'1g 1 I 1 I I Councilman Tom Nekota is delivering "by hand" this year at the 1 1 th Christmas is a good time for sign-waving Star-Bulletin Photo by Warren I Ti The I Ammonia Causes Fire Dairies 1(alihi Plant top AMt m-A Altnoylia war-owl4in Morlooy, Uocamost I i Iv ilf al I i to 4001 Po offt II 4011114 C301 Vey es Bill Restrict if Fit By Alan T. Matsuoka ed its Christmas recess today, could said changing the city's ordinance so ol Star-Bulletin Writer call a special session and attempt to soon before New Year's Day "will tl override the veto before New Year's, create chaos for businesses who are i Mayor Frank Fasi today vetoed a key members last week said they involved in the sale of fireworks" bill which would have restricted the would not try such a move.

and could lead to substantial finan- use of fireworks on New Year's Eve, The measure passed Nov. 30 by a cial losses amounting to "several ir saying the City Council waited too 6-3 margin and six votes are needed hundred thousands of dollars." lc long before passing it. to override, but several of the votes The mayor's action means the in support are seen as weak. Mem- "YOUR LONG delay in making a city's existing ordinance will be in hers decided to leave the final deci- decision on this matter has created fi effect when the holiday arrives two sion to Fasi. much confusion among wholesalers weeks from now and Oahu residents Today was the deadline for Fasi to and retailers of fireworks," the 0 will be permitted to set off fireworks act on the measure.

mayor wrote. "And although they 0 on all parts of the Island as usual. In a veto message sent to Council are a minority, I feel that govern- a Although the Council, which start- Chairman Rudy Pacarro today, Fasi ment, in acting in the best interests IN 1 Punched iiii 1 I After Stopping Pair A police officer reportedly was A police report on the beatings punched in the eye at 6:30 p.m. yes- notes that the older suspect has been terday by one of two men he stopped convicted of robbery and that a I 1 question at Fern Elementary fully-loaded pistol was found on the 00,4, 4 School, 1121 Middle St. floor of a car involved in the inci- .4 4 4 At A The men escaped after one injured dents.

i 'officer Mervin Asamura, 30. Another police officer injured in ,1 an unrelated confrontation at Pablo 4 Homes Saturday night has Rope Reported ---1 been released from Queen's Medical 1 Center. An 18-year-old woman who said ila He is Jonathon Almodova, 24. she accepted a ride from a motorist I '74 i Almodova's partner, Grant Loo. 23, at a bus stop at School and Rose 1Lk.k taken unconscious to Queen's streets at 6:30 a.m.

Friday told po- i 7, A i Saturday after he and Almodova lice she later was threatened at gun. .) were injured by several men they point, handcuffed, punched, burned i 7 7i, i were trying to question. Loo since with cigarette butts and raped. has regained consciousness. She said she was forced to lie on 4 :4 :0 4 Loo was in serious condition after the floor of the car and was assault- 4 reportedly being struck on the head ed on the grounds of a school, which repeatedly with his own flashlight.

she believes was in Windward Oahu. t--- A 19-year-old man has been arrest- She told police she does not know i .4 ted for investigation of attempted the exact location because she was (Err 1 5, in Loo's case. A '26-year- not released from the car until it had 0 i -4 sold man has been arrested for inves- been at several locations. tigation in the Almodova incident. She said she called her boyfriend 7 rt to'N 4 after she was freed.

He notified po- 1 1 4 lice, 1 LI Ut Alea Man Tourists Robbed Shot in Eye; .4 44( 1 Two male Japanese tourists told -o police they were robbed of $245 and 3 Arrested 1,200 yen by a gunman and his com- pam'on, a woman with long, blond CHEAPER THAN STAMPSCity Col Three men, aged 47, 39 and hair. ing holiday greetings to constituents "I The 37, have been arrested by po- alleged robbery occurred at Avenue freeway on-romp. He says Chr 10:40 a.m. yesterday after the man lice officers who are investigat- waving even if there isn't an election. and the woman, each about 20 years ing a shooting outside an Ewa old, forced their way into the pair's R.

Roll. Beach bar early yesterday in which Larry Brighton, 26 of Waikiki hotel room. The victims then were bound and gagged. Mee was shot in the eye. The robbers reportedly cut tele- I ea A Brighton was taken to phone cords in the hotel room before Queen's Hospital where his they fled the area in a car believed cling conon is improving.

a to have been driven by another man. spokesman said. Police said Brighton appar- There have been no arrests in the case. ently was shot just after mid- night outside Ducki's Silver at Foremosi Spur at 91-2112 Fort Weaver Road alter he and the suspects went outside the bar to settle Police Trap Successful An ammonia leak at the Foremost hi an argument. Dairies plant on Kamehameha High- Two men, ages 24 and 20, have way in Kalihi led to an electrical After the shooting, witnesses said, three men fled in a car been arrested for allegedly burglar- short circuit, a small fire and a rup- izing a car that police set up as a tured ammonia gas line early today, that police stopped about 15 minutes later on the nearby decoy at Euhald Beach Park near fire officials said.

freeway. Kahu a The men were arrested about ku. Firemen were still at the plant at Police said a handgun found mid-morning to "blow out" the 10:30 a.m. ammonia gas inside the industrial in the car may have been the legedly broke open the car Sunday after 'they al- locked one used in the shooting. processing area which houses' the trunk and took $250 in traveler's The 47-year-old is from Kane- checks a camera a purse and other ammonia tanks.

ohe, the 39-year-old from Kai- One fireman, Joseph Reed, was in- tr items worth a total of $700. jured when the liquified ammonia, si lua and the 37-year-old from ap olice officers who set the trap Ewa Beach. used at the plant to maintain freez- say they witnessed the burglary. ers, seeped through his pants and Tourist to Republic of liC By Helen Altonn the trip she was notified that it had land. about 1,334 miles south of been canceled because of a possible Honolulu, is in the Line Islands.

Star-Bulletin Writer airline strike. Miles' ticket said "Kiritimati," 1 Honolulu resident Dorothy Miles which she later learned means HOWEVER, SHE told Island Rain- recently was visiting the village of Christmas in the Gilbertese Ian- bow Airtours, the agency handling Banana on Christmas Island and the flight, that she was anxious to guage. I was startled to find that several of photograph the fairy terns on Christ- MILES RETIRED in 1973 as an 1 the children were terrified of her mas Island and it wouldn't matter if information specialist and news edi- while others giggled. a strike occurred and she was tor at the University of Hawaii and I "They had never seen white-skin- stranded there. has devoted her time to a study of I ned people." she said.

They arranged for me to go. but I fairy terns, keeping watch on a new Republic of Kiribati when she Miles was the first tourist to the didn't know that nobody else was small ohana of terns in Kapiolani ng (fr the society)," she said. Park. 1 went to Christmas Island Nov. 26 to -1M The only others on the airplane She wrote a book on her observa- Dec.

4. were some Gilbertese residents and tions entitled Manu 0 Ku," the Ha- But she didn't know that until she an English land surveyor who has waiian name for the white tern. boarded Air Tungaru's Boeing 727 been on Christmas Island seven "Anyone who loves nature would I and "looked around and there wasn't months surveying it. love Christmas Island because of the I anybody there." "You are the first tourist to Christ- bird and marine life," Miles said in She said members of the Audubon Society were offered an opportunity mas Island," the surveyor, Myra an interview describing her trip. 4 in early November to see Christmas Walton informed Miles.

She was met by Patrick Lawrence, Island, a wildlife sanctuary support- Coincidentally, Miles noted that the development officer on the Is- 1 ed by the World Wildlife Fund in the new country of Kiribati (pro- told few persons had land, w. her cooperation with the Kiribati govern- nounced Kiribas) gained its inde- been privileged to observe the bird- I 1 ment. pendence from England on July 12, life on the isolated atoll. I Ten seats were available for a her 70th birthday. Kiribati hopes to capitalize on its i group tour of society members on The republic includes the Phoenix rare natural beauty and resources the Air Tungaru plane leased from and Line Island groups and the Gil- with development of a tourism Air Nauru.

bert Islands. The capital of Tarawa industry to replace the revenue lost Miles said after she signed up for is in the Gilbert group. Christmas Is- with the end of its phosphate indus- ---1' As 1 I er. ''S VI r''' r----rr i ek lit' i 7 A-. I 0 1 1 1 (..., .4 i 1, ,,4,, is, 1 At 1 le- 1 Ar 4,1, i N'N, 't ,..41.

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The mayor's action means the city's existing ordinance will be in effect when the holiday arrives two weeks from now and Oahu residents will be permitted to set off fireworks on all parts of the Island as usual. Although the Council, which start iPoliceman Punched After Stopping Pair A police officer reportedly was punched in the eye at 6:30 p.m. yesterday by one of two men he stopped question at Fern Elementary School, 1121 Middle St. The men escaped after one injured "iofficer Mervin Asamura, 30. Another police officer injured in an unrelated confrontation at Pablo Valley Homes Saturday night has been released from Queen's Medical Center.

He is Jonathon Almodova, 24. partner; Grant Lou. 23. taken unconscious to Queen's Saturday after he and Almodova were injured by several men they were trying to question. Loo since has regained consciousness.

Loo was in serious condition after reportedly being struck on the head repeatedly with his own flashlight. A 19-year-old man has been arrestted for investigation of attempted 'homicide in Loo's case. A 26-year, old man has been arrested for in the Almodova incident. Alea Man Shot in Eye; 3 Arrested Three men, aged 47, 39 and 37, have been arrested by police officers who are investigating a shooting outside an Ewa Beach bar early yesterday in which Larry Brighton, 26, of Aiea was shot in the eye. Brighton was taken to Queen's Hospital where his condition is improving.

a spokesman said. Police said Brighton apparently was shot just after mid. night outside Ducki's Silver Spur at 91-2112 Fort Weaver Road alter he and the suspects went outside the bar to settle an argument. After the shooting. witnesses said, three men fled in a car that police stopped about 15 minutes later on the nearby freeway.

Police said a handgun found in the car may have been the one used in the shooting. The 47-year-old is from Kaneohe, the 39-year-old from Kailua and the 37-year-old from Ewa Beach. First Tourist to Republic of By Helen Altonn Star-Bulletin Writer Honolulu resident Dorothy Miles recently was visiting the village of Banana on Christmas Island and was startled to find that several of the children were terrified of her while others giggled. "They had never seen white-skinned people." she said. Miles was the first tourist to the new Republic of Kiribati when she went to Christmas Island Nov.

26 to Dec. 4. But she didn't know that until she boarded Air Tungaru's Boeing 727 and "looked around and there wasn't anybody there." She said members of the Audubon Society were offered an opportunity in early November to see Christmas Island, a wildlife sanctuary supported by the World Wildlife Fund in cooperation with the Kiribati government. Ten seats were available for a group tour of sotiety members on the Air Tungaru plane leased from Air Nauru. Miles said after she signed up for gin 1,0 4 I ot toi-' eA '1 t-, LONDON CHOIRChildren of London Village present cs concert ed its Christmas recess today, could call a special session and attempt to override the veto before New Year's, key members last week said they would not try such a move.

The measure passed Nov. 30 by a 6-3 margin and six votes are needed to override, but several of the votes In support are seen as weak. Members decided to leave the final decision to Fasi. Today was the deadline for Fasi to act on the measure. In a veto message sent to Council Chairman Rudy Pacarro today, Fasi A police report on the beatings notes that the older suspect has been convicted of robbery and that a fully-loaded pistol was found on the floor of a car involved in the incidents.

Rope Reported An 18-year-old woman who said she accepted a ride from a motorist at a bus stop at School and Rose streets at 6:30 a.m. Friday told police she later was threatened at gun. point, handcuffed, punched, burned with cigarette butts and raped. She said she was forced to lie on the floor of the car and was assaulted on the grounds of a school, which she believes was in Windward Oahu. She told police she does not know the exact location because she was not released from the car until it had been at several locations.

She said she called her boyfriend after she was freed. lie notified police, Tourists Robbed Two male Japanese tourists told police they were robbed of $245 and 1,200 yen by a gunman and his companion, a woman with long, blond hair. The alleged robbery occurred at 10:40 a.m. yesterday after the man and the woman, each about 20 years old, forced their way into the pair's Waikiki hotel room. The victims then were bound and gagged.

The robbers reportedly cut telephone cords in the hotel room before they fled the area in a car believed to have been driven by another man. There have been no arrests in the case. Police Trap Successful Two men, ages 24 and 20, have been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a car that police set up as a decoy at Euhald Beach Park near Kahuku. The men were arrested about 10:30 a.m. Sunday after they allegedly broke open the car's locked trunk and took $250 in traveler's checks, a camera, a purse and other items worth a total of $700.

Police officers who set the trap say they witnessed the burglary. the trip she was notified that it had been canceled because of a possible airline strike. HOWEVER, SHE told Island Rainbow Airtours, the agency handling the flight, that she was anxious to photograph the fairy terns on Christmas Island and it wouldn't matter if a strike occurred and she was stranded there. "They arranged for me to go, but I didn't know that nobody else was going (from the society)," she said. The only others on the airplane were some Gilbertese residents and an English land surveyor who has been on Christmas Island seven months surveying it.

"You are the first tourist to Christmas Island," the surveyor, Myra Walton, informed Miles. Coincidentally, Miles noted that the new country of Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas) gained its independence from England on July 12, her 70th birthday. The republic includes the Phoenix and Line Island groups and the Gilbert Islands. The capital of Tarawa is in the Gilbert group. Christmas Is 1 riAl Nice Ye, .4 'till'', .1 Idt 1 Ilt Restrict said changing the city's ordinance so soon before New Year's Day "will create chaos for businesses who are involved in the sale of fireworks" and could lead to substantial financial losses amounting to "several hundred thousands of dollars." "YOUR LONG delay in making a decision on this matter has created much confusion among wholesalers and retailers of fireworks," the mayor wrote.

"And although they are a minority, I feel that government, in acting in the best interests 0100K 111( 1 I 4 01,4 0100 4 0, 4 -4. .,...,1 1 17(7). I. I I II ik i I 717171 1, i. i t- 5.1 if 3 1 ,....61 ----Nt-N rt 1 i 1 Li live, 4 4 4, 11 4.4...4,1611:AL CHEAPER THAN STAMPSCity holiday greetings to constituents Avenue freeway on-romp.

He says even if there isn't an election. R. Roll. Leaking at Foremost I A AI An ammonia leak at the Foremost Dairies plant on Kamehameha Highway in Kalihi led to an electrical short circuit, a small fire and a ruptured ammonia gas line early today, fire officials said. Firemen were still at the plant at mid-morning to "blow out" the ammonia gas inside the industrial processing area which houses the ammonia tanks.

One fireman, Joseph Reed, was injured when the liquified ammonia, used at the plant to maintain freezers, seeped through his pants and land, about 1,334 miles south of Honolulu, is in the Line Islands. Miles' ticket said "Kiritimati," which she later learned means Christmas in the Gilbertese language. MILES RETIRED in 1973 as an information specialist and news editor at the University of Hawaii and has devoted her time to a study of fairy terns, keeping watch on a small ohana of terns in Kapiolani Park. She wrote a book on her observations entitled Manu 0 Ku," the Hawaiian name for the white tern. "Anyone who loves nature would love Christmas Island because of the bird and marine life," Miles said in an interview describing her trip.

She was met by Patrick Lawrence, the development officer on the Island, who told her few persons had been privileged to observe the bird, life on the isolated atoll. Kiribati hopes to capitalize on its rare natural beauty and resources with development of a tourism industry to replace the revenue lost with the end of its phosphate indus 1,4444,444444410444, 4 At, lift for their Honolulu visitor. of in pa Fasi also mentioned Police department criticism that the Council's bill would be diffficult to enforce. THE DEPARTMENT initiated discussion on the issue in March when it proposed a ban on fireworks except by permit. Fasi today said he continues to support that measure.

The Council's compromise version, reached after months debate and discussion, he said, "does not go far enough in controlling fireworks activity." But in the last paragraph of his message, the mayor said he would "Welcome" a "unanimous rejection" of his veto after the New Year's holiday. Hawaii Kalihi Man, 21 Dies in House' Fire A 2I-year-old man died at about 3 a.m. today when fire destroyed the upper half of a home at 1538 Gulick Ave. in Ka lihi. The victim was identified is Ver.

non R. Baloran, who lived upstairs the house with three other per. sons. Six other persons lived downstairs. There were no other injuries although fireman Kenneth Cazinha of the Kuakini fire station suffered a wrenched back.

Fifteen firemen from Kuakini, Kalihi and Kaalihi Uka stations fought the blaze for three hours. It was reported at 2:30 a.m. and was not extinguished until 5:30 Baloran, who was taken to St. Francis Hospital, reporteely died of smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire and the amount of property damage have not yet been determined.

Man Who Fled 1 Murder Scene Dies A man who police said shot him. self as he fled the scene of a fatal shooting Thursday morning has died in Queen's Hospital. According to Freitas, a small amount of escaping ammonia gas formed condensation on an electrical line, causing the line to short circuit. Freitas said a "small fire" occurred. Two companies responded to the 3:21 am, alarm and firemen, wearing gas masks, extinguished the fire.

All gas valves were shut down and firemen set up air blowers to rid the building of the gas. Spokesmen for Foremost Dairies Hawaii Ltd. could not be reached immediately. boat and you've got fish." And the birds described in Cook's journal are still there, "as if time had stood still," she said. She was thrilled to see a fairy tern flying one night against a sky "so clear I could see clusters of stars I had never seen before without binoc- ulars." She also saw what Cook described as "a small land bird like a hedge sparrow." It is the Christmas Island warbler, the only indigenous land bird on the Island.

She said the warbler and the other 33 species of birds in the atoll are so unused to humans that it is possible to get a close look at them. "The lovely white fairy terns flew in droves to meet us when our little launch was beached on Cook Island, and followed us as we walked, hovering above our heads." BUT SHE SAID the beautiful beaches are blighted by huge rusted machines and derelict buildings left behind by the British and Americans after nuclear tests there in the 1950s and 60s. She said Britain and the United States should help Kiribati clean up the junk and she plans to write to congressmen to see what she can do about it. She it also distressed by malformed birds found on the Island, which she said might reflect genetic- damage caused by the H-bomb tests and radiation damage. She noted that the flash of the bombs blinded millions of birds and great colonies were exterminated because they couldn't see to eat.

However, a scientific survey in 1975 found that there is less radioactivity there than in most major American cities, so people shouldn't be afraid to go down," she said. Miles said there are only seven Caucasians living on Christmas Island. They manage the plantation and hotel and work in administrative positions for the Kiribati government. THE OTHER residents are all Gilbertese. And there are only two old people on the Island.

she said. About half of the residents are children. English is taught in the three schools, which go up to the eighth grade. Fish and coconuts are the only available local foods. Other items are flown in now, but Miles said the people survived in the past without ('p it 2 of I 1 I I I.

3 ee. i 4 burned his anIde. Reed was treated at the Pawaa clinic at the police station and released. No other injuries were reported, and fire officials said the leaking gas did not pose a hazard to nearby residents of the plant at 2277 Kamehameha Highway. DAMAGES TO THE ammonia tank and the electrical panel which short-circuited were, estimated at $30,000 by Kalihi-Kai fire Capt.

Val Freitas. try on Ocean Island. "But not the Hawaii kind of tourism," Lawrence emphasized to Miles, ISLAND RAINBOW Airtours will begin weekly tours to Christmas Island starting Jan. 9 with a group of fishermen and wildlife enthusiasts. However, the tours will be limited to 10 persons to match the availability of transportation and wildlife guides.

"It's only a three-hour flight," Miles said, "but you go back in time to 200 years ago when Capt. James Cook discovered what he thought was a small, barren Island, but reported in his log: 'There is indeed, abundance of birds and Cook discovered the Island on Christmas Day, 1777. Miles said the Christmas Island airport reminded her of Honolulu tiirport when she first arrived here In 1953. Many of the some 1,000 Gilbertese residents turned out to greet her with colorful head garlands and entertained her throughout her trip. felt like visiting royalty," she said.

SHE STAYED in the Captain Cook Hotel, which was built by the Japanese for personnel of its former satellite tracking station there. She said it is located on a desolate beach 15 miles from a village. It has 24 double rooms (costing $30 a night for two persons) with all conveniences except telephones and televisions. Miles said she was usually the only one in the dining room, "so I got lots of attention." She said there are no telephones on the Island. The villages have windmills to pump water, and the hotel generates its own electricity.

She said the people live in three villages Banana, Poland and London. There is another village called Paris which is not occupied. The entire atoll is a copra plantation and everything is government-owned, in'cluding the houses and vehicles, she said. Christmas Island is the largest coral atoll in the Pacific a 256- square-mile complex with hundreds of lagoons and dozens of small islets. IT IS LARGER than all of the other Islands in Kiribati combined, Miles said.

"I found it to be really beautiful. There are something like 500 lagoons with crystal clear water to swim "Fishing is fabulous there. All you have to do is drag a line behind a I 1 in Briefs William Henry Allen, 43, died at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Police said Allen was in an Iolani Avenue apartment when Dai Chee Yuen, 48, was slain there.

Yuen's body was found by firemen responding to a fire in the apartment shortly after shots were heard by neighbors. Allen shot himself, police said. when officers stopped his car as he attempted to flee from the scene. Police Identify Hit-Run Victim A 34-year-old motorcyclist who was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Pali Highway early yesterday has been identified as Marcea Gail Thompson of 2431 University Ave. Police are seeking a car that struck her motorcycle about 12:30 a.m.

They said that she was thrown to the pavement and then hit hit by two other cars. The drivers of those cars did not leave the scene. The accident occurred in the' Honolulubound lanes about a third of a mile above Waokanaka Street. FCC Okays Sale ovi elkeinnial 11 of Channel 13 Federal Communications Commission has approved the sale of KIKUTV, Channel 13, to Mid. Pacific Television Associates, a general partnership involving local businessmen and Asahi National Broadcasting Co.

of Japan. The hui will take control of the station in February, according to Sam Okinaga, chairman of the new owners' management committee. Mid-Pacific Television Associates consists of Hawaii-Nippon Communications Associates Inc. and Transpacific Television, the Asahi subsidiary. The group announced in June that it had purchased the station from Richard Eaton of Bethesda, for $2.7 million.

The sale was conditional pending federal approval which was granted Nov. 28. The station broadcasts predominantly Japanese programs. Welcome 4, it 1 I. 4o im 14.

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fresh fruit and vegetables by drinking a toddy known throughout the Gilbert chain as moimoito. They attach coconut bowls or bottles to coconut trees to gather the juice which is rick in Vitamin C. She said it is fed to newborn babies and is used instead of yeast for baking bread. It is also boiled down to a sugary syrup used in drinks. And when it becomes fermented, it is their source of alcohol.

Miles tried to do her Christmas shopping there. "I bought three fans all there was on the whole Island." She also brought back some Gilbertese swords, placemats and baskets, but she said few tourism items are available. She said the people hope to develop textile design as a new craft and she plans to send them paints and designs to assist with the industry. For those interested in the new round-trip excursions to Christmas Island from Honolulu, she noted that a passport is required and Australian money is used there. fi rlIT-ItUn VICTIM A 1AIyeb ea slA MflittS101.1TAIi&i S.th" tk third et.

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