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AUTHOR OUTRAGED AT REPORT HE IS PEDOPHILE

Arthur C. Clarke seeks postponement of knighthood

Clarke Clarke

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A British newspaper report that Arthur C. Clarke is a pedophile is false, his spokesman said Monday, and the science fiction writer is consulting lawyers.

"I am outraged by the Sunday Mirror's allegations, and I am seeking legal advise," Clarke said in a brief statement read to reporters by his secretary, Roshan Amarasekhara.

"Mr. Clarke is very upset by the false reports," Amarasekhara added.

Clarke was quoted at length discussing sex with young men in the sensationalist British newspaper's report Sunday, a day before Prince Charles was to fly to Sri Lanka to confer the honorary knighthood Queen Elizabeth granted the author late last year. The prince will also take part in the former British colony's 50th independence anniversary celebrations.

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