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HEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEY
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HEYHEYhey, hey, hey, it's ATI!HEY
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HEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEYHEY
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issue 44
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November 15, 1989
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Our address: Activist Times, Inc.
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P.O. Box 2501
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Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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= info following brought =
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= on by a need for more =
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= real information =) =
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Numbers Run:
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619-298-4844 CRONOS
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516-922-wine dial a dirty joke.
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516-751-2600 2600 magazine
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201-644-2335 ap newsline for the blind
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202-456-1414 Bush's desk
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203-324-3117 comedy shop newsline
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415-995-2606 Reality Hackers magazine
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619-375-1234 time and temp
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415-923-0900 PEACENET.
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212-966-5000 National Lawyers Guild
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800-833-news National Student News
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Service/ Hunger Campaign
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303-499-7111 Atomic Clock
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k800-999-9999 Covenant House's 9-Line for runaways and their parents to call for
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800-527-5018 Specialized Products Co. Call for catalog!
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201-748-4005 The Red Phone BBS!!!!
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Hi folks! It's time for Prime Anarchist World News!
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Hola, Buena. How goes it? Prime here. I cannot believe we're over 40 issues
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old already.
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Great. Whelp, here's some more PAWN, ok?
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The first receivers of fone calls said, "Ahoy-ahoy", instead of the later
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greeting, "Hello".
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10288 is 10-A-T-T. Neat, huh? 10488 is 10-I-T-T. Fitting. How the (10222)
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MCI signifies is beyond me. They were probably just late arranging an
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assignment.
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Oct. 16th, a guy held up a motel. He stole cash, checks and the
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telephone. He got away, because the desk clerk had no way to call police until
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after he left.
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Caffeine freaks: 2 teabags'll work, extra ground'll work; but a chocolate
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bar dropped in your cup will not. Sure, it'll add caffeine, but you won't be
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happy with the taste. The stuff that rises to the top resembles soggy bread,
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bot to sight and taste. And the stuff left at the bottom after you drink will
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sit at the bottom of your stomach for 75 minutes. Drop in two no-doz, or a
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vivarin, if you must, but make sure there's already something in el stomacho.
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Sing this to the tune of "pattycake" (the old mother goose rhyme?):
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tammy fay, tammy fay,
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bakker's wife.
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pray that he
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doesn't get life.
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Judging from the affadavit (for a phreaker's arrest) printed in issue 41,
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do they really feel safe to assume that an autodialer, a cassette recorder, a
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floppy disc, a modem, a telephone and (or) a computer is a direct sign of
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crime? Holy schmoley, Foley. Sure we've seen these things used and abused. The
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DEVICE is not a threat. Wake up, cops. You're playing the fool.
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AMOS I have never worked with. Is it new? How old? How about someone
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in-the-know (or in-the-think) giving a class on it? Share the wealth, Arouah!!
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Hey "Fucking Texan" (Android Pope) Let's get something clear. Yankees
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are not all bad. And especially not stupid. Just that many of them have been.
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There are good AND bad in all kinds of people. If you resort to generalizations
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like you did in your message, you ARE the "fucking texan" you so resent being
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called.
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The US and NATO forces are definitely working to destabilize countries
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like Albert Fischer's Argentina. It maintains our "high" way of life here in
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the states; but it's extremely dangerous. Very volatile. What you key in on,
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Fischer, is very accurate. This also happens in Texas.
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Radio Shack pays about $70 a month for Mexicans to come help build Tandy
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computers and camcorders. SO WHY DO TX's AND REALISTICtm PRODUCTS STILL COST
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SO @#*@!ing MUCH TO BUY THESE DAYS??? Us Americans are almost criminal for
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even ALLOWING this to continue.
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Nice captures of D-Dial. Let's see ore people sending in stuff they find
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on BBS's, on escalators, in malls, upstairs on the doubledecker bus, or while
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riding an emu, or a buffalo.
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I have a few really good printouts (about a year old) from a chat system
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in East Germany. I'll hafta find them and share. Thing is-- I won't be able to
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get them out of my SDB til December or so. Whatch --for-- it.
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Do you read the New York Slimes, or NewsSpeak magazine? Let's hear what
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mags, papers, rags, or books you all like, dislike, don't care about, etc.
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Well, I have to do it. Sorry. A couple of quake jokes. I know they still
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hurt, so I'll get 'em out of the way now, and move on.
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Everyone's tryin' to figure out if it was the San Andreas fault, or the
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Haymer fault, or what. I don't care whose fault it was, it was devastating.
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The rice-a-roni building burnt down; they had to sell out. Guess who
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bought them? Shake-n-Bake. (Keep your day job!!! -GZ)
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All new--x-rated TV weekly cartoon using clay figurines called gum-me and
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poke-me.
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When asked how old, I usually say, "old enough to know better, but young
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enough to do it anyways."
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Hey, Ramin (213). Speaking about the fone click people -- I picked up the
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receiver the other day and popped a dime in. I dialed the local number I
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wanted.
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"ITI operator", she cuts in. "Would you like normal service, or the
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special service for an additional 35 cents?"
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I told her I couldn't afford the special service, so I settled for normal
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service.
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"Thank you for using ITI", she told me and hung up. Click. That's it.
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Nothing. I lost my dime, never got my call thru, and ran out of money.
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"Blessed are the young, for they are going to inherit the national debt"
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--Hoover.
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Janet Jackson must have the same face painter, and hairstylist as
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Micheal, and his monkey. All three look identical.
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"Pax intrantibus" --Merton. Peace to all who enter.
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Best time to eat pizza is 5:53 in the morning, cold. Canoeing is fun.
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(did I spell that right???)
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I'm going to write a song called "parchese with 7 pieces missing," just
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so the New York Slimes, NewsSpeak, and the Small Street Urinal have to print
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"..and the band played 'parchese with 7 pieces missing.'"
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Found: Left handed pool cue. Brown wood, white pearl inlay. Engraved,
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initials H.A. Call 1-800-eat-shit.
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By the way, last night I called 1-800-eat-shit, and it was busy. So I
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guess it's a popular business now. I still haven't been able to get through.
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I'll post resultz if you try to too.
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Neat. Titanium teeth. If you're afraid your fillings won't outlive you
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like your teeth will; you can have titanium teeth installed. They cost $1500
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bucks each. All it'll cost you for both uppers AND lowers is $8000. "I'll buy
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that for a dollar" --skid roper (who else??)
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Oh well, that's about it for this bit. I will ketch you l'8 r.
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prime.
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alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert
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I just got a mailing from GMHC, a New York organization working to help AIDS
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victims and their families, educate people about AIDS, and more. I'll summarize
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it for you:
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Burroughs Wellcome, producer of the drug AZT known to help AIDS patients, has
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just lowered the price of AZT by 20% to about $6,400 a year.
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But it's still far too costly. Especially since Burroughs Wellcome will NOT
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reveal the cost of producing the drug to ANYONE, not the public, and not even
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Congress.
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Their refusal to disclose the cost of producing the drug or further reduce its
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price is especially unfair, since the Ameerican taxpayers have paid for AZT
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three times.
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First, the US government gave Burroughs Wellcome financial assistance and tax
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credits for research. Then, taxpayers picked up the tab for most of the
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clinical trials for AZT. And now, the federal government is their largest
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customer with Medicaid and other assistance programs. As the 9/15/89 Wall
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Street Journal stated: "AZT's profits are something of a windfall", since
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Burroghs Wellcome "didn't create the compound, it wasn't the first to discover
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its effectiveness against AIDS-type retroviruses, it didn't discover its
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effectiveness against AIDS itself and it didn't conduct the first human tests.
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Much of that work was done by other scientists, some at the National Institute
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of Health with federal funding."
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A 50% price cut would double the number the federal government can help in AZT
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assistance. GMHC asks all concerned people (and you should all be concerned!)
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to:
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1- Call Burroughs Wellcome at 1-800-922-9292 and tell them "Thanks, but it's
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not enough!"
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2- Send GMHC a note asking them to add your name to their petition which will
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be directed to the White House, Congress, the New York congressional
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delegation and Burroughs Wellcome. The petition states:
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"Access to medical care and affordable medicines must be made available for
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HIV-positive people. We are tired of programs which offer too little, too
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late. We want action now!"
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And when you send your note, send a contribution to GMHC if you can.
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Note: I can't find GMHC's address. If you wish to contact them, call New York
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City information (212)555-1212 and ask for the number for Gay Men's Health
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Crisis and call them. They will give you the address to write to.
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-----------------more stuff on AIDS-------------->
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Tens of thousands of Americans have died from AIDS. And today there are
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600,000 KNOWN cases of AIDS. The number of people who are HIV-positive and
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don't know it is probably extremely high.
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The money dedicated to researching a cure for AIDS is less than 1% of the
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total money given by the federal government for medical research.
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About 2,000 babies are born with AIDS each year in New York city alone.
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HBO had an excellent documentary on called "Common Threads: Stories from the
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Quilt" on the air recently. The story centered around a quilt that has over
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15,000 panels, each one dedicated to someone who had died of AIDS, and told
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the specific stories of five AIDS victims who had died: three gay men, a
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former IV drug user who stopped using too late to avoid AIDS, and a 10-yr old
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hemopheliac boy who got the virus through a blood transfusion. The stories
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were very moving, and the entire show presented a lot of facts about AIDS and
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our government's failure to respond to the crisis. If HBO shows this special
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again, do catch it.
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If anyone would like more information about the Names Project Quilt dedicated
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to those who have died of AIDS, the address is: Names Project, PO Box 14573,
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San Francisco, CA 94114. Fone number is 415-863-5511.
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There is a BBS dedicted to providing information about AIDS. It's called the
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AIDS Information BBS, and it has sections providing facts about AIDS,
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statistics about AIDS, infomation about organizations that help AIDS victims,
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legal advice, and more. Call this BBS at 415-626-1246. Sysop is Ben Gardiner.
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Adress is: PO Box 1528, San Francisco, CA, 94101.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Roving Eavesdropper
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Now for a story about three men talking in a shopping mall. Because two of the
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men's names were not known, they are referred to in the story as A and B.
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"Typical Conversation Overheard at a Suburban Mall"
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One day I was sitting at the food court at a shopping mall, one of the
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great meccas of suburban culture. I sat at a table adjacent to the center of
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the mall, with its numerous fountains, benches, winding staircases and mall
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rats (people addicted to hanging out in these malls) of all ages.
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I became interested in a fascinating conversation taking place near me.
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Two guys sat on a bench near me with their backs towards me. They both wore
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ragged t-shirts and jeans, and had long hair. Both of them wore baseball caps
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trned backwards, one of them a Metallica cap. They were talking to another guy
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named Steve, who worked at one of the many food concessions. They were
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conversing about a woman they all knew:
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"Hey, you know that girl Cathy? Theone who hangs out at Joe's Bar?",
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asked A.
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"Uh, which one? What does she look like?", asked B.
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"If you knew her you would KNOW who we're talking about", said Steve with
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a laugh. "She gets, uh, kinda funny when she's drunk."
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"Oh, yeah," said Steve. "I know the one."
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"She gets so damn horny when she's drunk. She was drunk over at Joe's the
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other night and gave me a really big kiss for no reason at all," stated A.
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"She's always there. I don't know who watches her kids while she's
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there," said Steve.
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"How old is she?" asked A.
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"She's thirty-eight. With three kids," said Steve.
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"Yeah, well, whenever she's at that bar she's always hanging all over all
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the guys there. Especially the young guys. When I was in there the other night
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she was hugging and kissing all of them. She knew all their names," said B in
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a disgruntled manner.
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"You've seen her there?" asked A.
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"Yeah. I took her there one night and she was flirting with all the young
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guys. She knew every one of them," said B angrily.
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"She always gets really drunk," added Steve.
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"And then she'll do anyone," said B. "But I don't want to do her. I could
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do her anytime I want, but I don't want to see what she looks like after
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having had three kids."
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"Yeah, I know what you mean," replied A.
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"You know man, I brought her over to meet my friend Roy once. You know,
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the one who's an auto body mechanic?" Steve and A nodded. "Well, he took a
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liking to her and I had to leave her there alone with him! And then he
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actually GAVE her one of his cars to drive around in. I couldn't fucking
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believe it!" exclaimed B.
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"Is that thee Ford I saw her driving a couplee of weeks ago?" asked
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Steve. "That's a nice car."
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"Yeah, that's the one. Now she's driving around in his car picking up
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young guys," grumbled B.
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"Hey I hear her sister and her daughter are the same way," chided Steve.
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"Her daughter's seventeen, right? Too young," mused A, looking down at
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the tile floor.
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"Yeah," answered Steve. "But then again, she's not too much like her
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mother. No one's quite like Cathy..."
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"Hey, I could do Cathy in a minute, man," said B with a wave of his arm.
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"But I just don't want to see what she looks like after having three kids." B
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turned to Steve. "Hey do you know anyone that did her?" he asked Steve.
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Steve shook his head and developed a slight grin.
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"Hey man, why don't you do her this weekend and tell me how it was?"
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asked B, hopefully. Steve's response was another shake of his head and a grin.
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B looked at the floor for a moment and cracked a half-smile. "When she
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was drunk one night at Joe's she almost fell down and I put my arm around her.
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Her waist DID seem kinda slender.. and nice...," His voice trailed off as his
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eyes stared ahead. Steve and A exchanged a smirky glance.
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"She's at this bar a lot," noted A. "Does she have a lot of money to
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drink with?"
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"No. Get the picture?" answered Steve.
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"Yeah, I get it," A responded with a laugh.
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"Hey I think I'll call her later," mused B. "You got her nummber?" he
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asked Steve.
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"Yeah, it's home though," said Steve.
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"Oh, I'll hafta get it from you later," said B as he rose. "You heading
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over to Joe's now?"
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"Yeah," answered Steve, rising.
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"How bout you?" B asked A.
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A stood up and stretched. "Yeah, let's go", he said, slapping B on the
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shoulder.
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Although it certainly couldn't be discerned from their conversation, when
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A and B turned around and faced my direction, their faces showed that they
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were approximately in their earlt thirties.
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The three headed towards the door and walked out into the early autumn
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evening, laughing.
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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:ATI, changing the way people :
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read for over 2 years.
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:ATI, a freedom paper. :
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ATI, a way of life, patriots /
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:ATI, more than just a - -
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newspaper, it's the rag /
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:of justice!!! /
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Notes from Ground Zero.......
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Bush was in NJ and Virginia the friday before Election Day to help out in
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the gubernatorial races in those states. And when Bush came to NJ, he visited
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none other than my town Bloomfield.
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Most of the spectators could not get close to the grandstand, however.
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This was because it was sectioned off with gates, and a ticket had to be
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obtained from the Republican comittee in advance. There were a bunch of
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neo-Nazi Yuppie-type young Rebublicans guarding the entrance to the sectioned-o
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ff area, taking tickets. But they weren't very smart, as I outsmarted them and
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snuck in anyway. Some time later, I encountered a guy I knew in high school
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who I used to argue with about politics. And he was carrying a pro-choice
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sign, to my surprise.
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"Hey man, good to see you're on the right side now!" I exclaimed. "How
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did you get in with that sign? They only allow pro-Republican signs on this
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side."
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"I just walked in," he answered. "No one stopped me."
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"Hey, you can't carry that over here!" shouted one of the yuppie Young
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Republicans. "Get out of here."
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"Well, I see plenty of YOUR signs on this side," I answered.
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"THESE signs," began the right-wing fascist, "are cleared with the Secret
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Service to appear before the President and be photographed by the media. YOUR
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signs are not. They could have subversive messages on them!"
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"Oh come on, that's ridiculous..." I began, but was interrupted by a very
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tall, muscular man in a trench coat who walked swiftly up to my friend and I,
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grabbing us by the arm.
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"All right, out you go," he said, pushing us outside the entrance into
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the crowd on the other side. My friend and I stepped back inside, but he
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pushed us back out again. I was about to ask him what authority he had to
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throw us out, but gave up and joined the pro-choice demonstrators, whose
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numbers were impressive.
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Some of the young Republicans tried to block us by holding their signs in
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a way so that ours could not be seen. But they tired of that, and lowered
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them. A few minutes later, two young men tried to block our signs by actually
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having one climb on the other's shoulders and holding up the American flag.
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Ironic, eh?
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"Anyone got a light?" I asked loudly. The demonstrators laughed.
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Well, anyway, both Republican gubernatorial candidates Bush tried to help
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that day lost. Jim Florio won in NJ, and in Virginia, the first Black governor
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in American history was elected.
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Speaking of the Bushs, I kinda like Barbara Bush. I think she's more, er,
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real than ol' Nancy Reagan, who always had that sick smile pasted on her face
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that looked sooooooo phony. Anyway, here's someting Barbara Bush said that I
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really liked: There was a rumor going around saying that she weighed 135
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pounds (which is impossible). Our First Lady responded to that rumor by
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saying, "I was BORN weighing 135!". All right!
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"Hard Copy" is another yellow-journalistic, exploitation show that's
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aired on CBS. A few weeks ago, they showed color films, that they claimed were
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"home movies" made of Hitler and his close friends, filmed by Eva Braun. They
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looked fake. Then, a few days ago they showed "home movies" of Leona Helmsley.
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Gimme a break.
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Peru - with all the hype about Colombia and the drug cartels, I didn't
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know that actually 60% of the coccaine in the US comes from Peru. Peru is a
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mess. They have a social democratic gov't that's failing, 2 bands of comunist
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guerrillas that control part of the country. And it's claimed that the drug
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lords pay the guerrillas with guns and money to allow them to grow coccaine in
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their territory. (Now THAT'S a disgrace) One of the guerrilla bands is the
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Maoist, hard-line communist Shining Path, which has ties to the Revolutionary
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Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade in the US
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(remember the guy who took the flag-burning case to the Supreme Court? He's a
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member of those organizations). Anyway, now a right-wing dude wants to run for
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president in Peru. Ha. He won't have much luck straightening up the mess if
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he wins.
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Berlin-- we're seeing history in the making. Hey, did you know that each
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first-time E German visitor to W. Germany gets about $55 from the W. German
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government to spend? Good deal! But, the exodus to W. Germany seems to be over
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for now. Most E. Germans ony want to visit the west, citing drugs, homelessness
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problems in W. Germany, and the fact that the pay about 1/10 as much as W.
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Germans do for rent, and the fact that their friends and family is in the East
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as reasons for not emigrating.
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El Salvador -- Are we about to see the guerrillas win the civil war? I
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don't see either side willing to compromise much in a political solution, so I
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would hope that the guerrillas take over and end it already. Many people in
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the US are calling for an end to aid to the Salvadoran government, but being
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that we've been giving them about $1 million per DAY for over 10 years, I
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don't see that happening.
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Well, talk at ya later...
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We're just about out of space, so look for ATI45 real soon!
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Take care and be creative!
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