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Aug. 4, 2004 21:16 | Updated Aug. 4, 2004 22:01 New Zealand passport scam takes Canadian twist By HERB KEINON The New Zealand passport flap is thickening, with Canada trying to determine whether one of the Israelis allegedly involved in the scam who managed to leave New Zealand is traveling on a stolen Canadian passport. Canadian Foreign Ministry spokesman Reynald Doiron confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the Canadian police and other federal agencies are investigating whether Ze'ev Barkan, one of the men New Zealand suspects of involvement in the scandal but who has reportedly left the country, is traveling...

Hart faces new abuse allegations By Cara Eastwood rep4@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Retired Wyoming Bishop Joseph Hart was named in a sexual abuse lawsuit Wednesday, along with two other Catholic clergymen who had served with him in Kansas City. The suit adds new accusations to those made in 2002 that Hart vehemently denied. The suit alleges the three Catholic priests molested minors when they worked together from the 1960s to the 1980s. According to the lawsuit, some of the abuse allegedly took place at a lake home north of Kansas City and at church facilities, sometimes...