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From: jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG])
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Subject: Dwarf-Tossing Condemned
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 18:24:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 18:24:55 1985
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[Taken from the Globe and Mail, Toronto's National Newspaper, Sept. 14, 1985.
 Reprinted without permission.]

			  DWARF-TOSSING
			    CONDEMNED

STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- An Italian Communist deputy yesterday asked the
European Parliament to condemn dwarf-tossing competitions.

Vera Squarcialupi said the assembly must "condemn most strongly the
commercial exploitation of dwarfs."

She said that the competitions involve "throwing a person of restricted
growth, i.e. a dwarf, as far as possible, and that this is done by
particularly robust men."

She said in a draft resolution that Australian organizers of such
competitions are recruiting dwarfs in Europe for an upcoming international
championship.

The Australian Government, she said, must "be urged to ban it."


					Jim Tubman
					University of Waterloo


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