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Swedes guard Christmas goat from vandals
Dec 3, 2006

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat - the victim of Sweden's most violent yule tradition - will survive unscathed.

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