V.I.P.s flip over mate stripper

Press, 6 October 1987, Page 1

V.I.P.s flip over mate stripper

NZPA-AAP ; Apia Outraged Samoans reached for ashfrays to use as missiles as a male stripper reached for, a flimsy jock-strap, his last remaining item of apparel. The scene was Apia’s first official striptease show, a surprise item at the recent “Miss South Pacific” pageant in Apia. : Now an inquest IS under way as to who allowed the performance before royalty, diplomats, politicians and their wives. The “Samoa Times,” in an editorial, called on the Prime Minister, Vaal Kolone, to find out who was responsible “and sack him.” The unidentified stripper was bare of support, according to the newspaper’s front-page

report of-the Show. -- “One lady Was open to be trying to blow, the act; away:, with her fan While; others? simply slipped down furtherstheir seats and averted tookfag at the unfolding report-said. . The report .said, spedatqrs were reaching forashtraysa* the shipper fiddled with the; string holding up his jock-strap. “He would have been bombarded with ashtrays If he had dared take that ■ thing , according to one spectator; quoted by the “Times.’’ ;>• In its editorial, the “line", said the damage to Western Samoa’s reputation as a Christian country whose motto was “Samoa is founded onGod”, was impossible to estimate because of the Atrip .shbw.:;