Loose cannons

Wednesday, February 7, 1996 - 11:00

Reliable

"The SS were confirmed anticommunists, and the Americans felt they could be relied on to fight against the Russians." — Wilhelm Hoettl, one of a group of Austrian Nazis SS personnel recruited by the US in 1947 to act as underground resistance against any Soviet invasion.

Dangers of office

"Ginseng will be of no help." — Russian psychic and defeated MP Anatoly Kashpirovsky, warning he will cause impotence in anyone who tries to evict him from his Moscow flat, which is supposed to go to another parliamentarian.

Let's vote now, then

"Mr Keating said that no policy speech during the five-week campaign would be more important than his youth statement." — Sydney Morning Herald, January 30.

Now you know

"For goodness sake, we are human, both of us." — The retiring NSW governor, Rear-Admiral Peter Sinclair, on disagreements between himself and Premier Bob Carr.

From GLW issue 218