Cable briefs
Homes fraud Twenty-nine people were sentenced to eight months jail for making fraudulent applications for homes* intended for victims of the 1980 Naples earthquake.. The trial followed an examination of documents filed with applications for 28,000 homes built for families whose houses were destroyed in the disaster. — Naples. '
Pope’s birthday The Papal headquarters was flooded with birthday greetings as Pope John Paul II turned 67, but the Pontiff spent a normal working day. Pope John Paul observes his "name day” on November 4 rather than his birthday. —Vatican City. s. Kiss with a kick An Italian woman was
arrested after apparently trying to pass her lover cocaine^with a passionate kiss In a Rome courtroom. Rosa Cioffi, aged 30, walked up to her boyfriend and kissed him on the mouth as he entered the dock to hear charges : Of: drugs trafficking. She then rushed out of the Court She was detained bn suspicion after the prosecutor noticed she had a capsule between her lips. —Rome.
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