/ 22 February 2001

WORK UP AN APPETITE WITH THESE SANDWICHES

EGYPTIAN authorities have seized sandwiches and oriental pastries filled with 1 100 Viagra anti-impotence pills from the luggage of two Syrians. Viagra has been legal in Egypt since December 1999 and can only be sold by prescription, but black-market dealers sell it at exorbitant prices. Customs officials found 600 pills in 12 sandwiches brought in by a Syrian businessman and another 500 pills in a box of oriental pastries carried by another Syrian on the same flight. – AFP

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