Mickey Mouse for Rio debut

RIO DE JANEIRO - Mickey Mouse will make his debut at the Rio Carnival parade next year, but there will be no chance of his cartoon…

RIO DE JANEIRO - Mickey Mouse will make his debut at the Rio Carnival parade next year, but there will be no chance of his cartoon girlfriend Minnie making a bare breasted appearance, a Disney executive said yesterday.

A samba school will be allowed to use Disney's trade mark cartoon characters to celebrate 25 years of the Walt Disney World theme park in Orlando, Fla. - so long as all the women dancers accompanying the parade keep their sequined clothes on.

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