Through narrow streets of Riga one day last fortnight rushed excited Latvians to see what was going on at the old Cathedral of St. Mary. There a man half stood, half dangled, his left hand spiked to the Cathedral's heavy oak door. Brandishing a hammer in his free hand, the man was shouting: "I want to save the world from a new world war by this crucifixion!" Police pried the nail out with the hammer, took the man to a hospital.
No U. S. peace lover attempted public auto-crucifixion last week, but in Manhattan...
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