Marge Vindicated!

From: C-reuters@clarinet.com (Reuters)
Subject: Michelangelo's David ruled not obscene
Keywords: urgent
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 5:10:09 PDT

         HONG KONG, Aug 1 (Reuter) - A Hong Kong judge ruled on
Tuesday that Michelangelo's David is not obscene.
         The High Court decision resulted from a case brought by an
English-language newspaper, the Eastern Express, which sought to
quash a ruling by the colony's Obscene Articles Tribunal that a
picture it published of the sculpture was obscene.
         The paper's editor, Michael Chugani, said the judge declared
no jurist would find the statue of a nude David indecent and
referred the case back to the tribunal for a re-ruling.
         ``Hong Kong is set to become the laughing stock of the
world,'' the paper said when it launched the court case.

--jim                   [shockey@primenet.com]