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yesterday was...

Monday 26 February 1996 19:02 EST
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A good day for:

Swiss banks, for whom the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, has asked for divine assistance in a specially composed prayer: "May the Lord enlighten... the Swiss banks, that they might... preserve the... laws of confidentiality, trust and basic decency."

A bad day for:

Nude Christians, as the first Christian Nudist Conference opened at the Whispering Pines Resort, California, with a poem that began: "Here we are sitting together in the nude, some folks in society exclaim to us, how rude!"

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