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yesterday was...

Monday 16 October 1995 23:02 BST
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A good day for:

Chinese stammerers, with the foundation of the Friendship Association of Stutterers, China's first self-help group for the phonetically challenged.

A bad day for:

Aishe Akif, a Bulgarian fortune-teller, whose cassette-tape of pre-recorded spirit voices was chewed up by her recorder at the crucial moment in a seance.

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