Good book begat a bad debt

Thursday 20 July 1995 23:02 BST

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Good book begat a bad debt

Buenos Aires - Argentine court officials confiscated an unemployed man's furniture and a pizza oven he was using to support his three young children after he could not meet payments on a bible. Hector Arce said he tried to return the bible three times. He lost his public service job last year soon after being persuaded to buy the expensively-bound bible by a door-to-door salesman.

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