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In March a Washington state physicians agency filed charges of unprofessional conduct against county coroner Dexter Amend of Spokane. He’d allegedly halted the cremation of an AIDS victim to demand an autopsy of the rectum, and in another case had asked the mother of a 16-year-old girl who was shot to death whether the girl had ever been sodomized by gang members. And in May the county coroner in Tacoma, Washington, was fired for encouraging his staff to joke about corpses’ sex organs and for allowing photographs of prominent persons’ corpses to be circulated around the office.
Cultural Diversity
In April a court in China’s Hebei province found Qi Minggin, 61, guilty of making 180 long-distance calls on his employer’s telephone and sentenced him to life in prison.
Bill Levinger, a congressional candidate in the Idaho primary, appeared on a public-affairs TV show in April. He stripped down to his underwear, offered the host $5,000 for a kiss, and played with a toy elephant and rolls of $100 bills.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration by Shawn Belschwender.
