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"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Wednesday, July 17, 2002
SPAIN ERECTS RABAT-PROOF FENCE The confrontation between Spain and Morocco over a sprig of parsley in the Mediterranean intensified today when elite Spanish assault troops reoccupied the disputed islet of Perejil (parsley in Spanish) dislodged the six Moroccan troops guarding an observation post that had been established a week earlier after Moroccan frontier police had raised the country’s flag there and then proceeded to build a fence around the small rocky outpost (about the size of a football field).
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