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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 15
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(Part 2)
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Released September 21, 1987
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Featuring:
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Exposition / Author's Note (sr 9\20;30-48)
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UNIX System Newsletter (i.wld 9\6;71)
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Fiber Optics In The Home (bs.wk 9\11;83)
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More Global Clout For MCI (bs.wk 9\14;118)
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Horse-Racing Fanatics Bet Via Modem (bs.wk 9\14;131)
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The IBM-MCI Partnership Fanally Takes Off (bs.wk 9\20;154)
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Syndicate Report Brief Notes (digest 9\17;175)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition: TSR
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided
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through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as
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Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments
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on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and
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given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). --
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All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the
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article as the information provider(s), or writer(s).
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TSR Transfer Line I 612 829-8509 ------ TSR Transfer Line II 612 829-8508
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TSR Newsline 612 829-8503
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Author's Note: TSR
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Hello and WELCOME to 'Part 2' of The Syndicate Report Transmittal #15/2.
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Part 2 was brought on for many reasons. The amount of news this month, and the
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latter part of August brought a lot of extra articles and the such. I'd like
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to thank people for submitting news/articles, it helps.
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I've also set up another VMS system. This is not dial direct such
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as the above VMS's. The number is 612-831-0888. When you hear the female
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instructions voice, simply dial: 404. You will then hear my voice with
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instructions on leaving name and number etc. Retrieval of messages is 90%
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faster on this VMS since there is an online pager built in. So if there is a
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need to contact me quick, leave your message with contacting informatin and
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the VMS will page me and transmit your message. Use this only for emergency
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type situations. The pager can be turned off by me. -Thank you.
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Personal Comment: As most of you know, LOD/H is publishing Technical
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Journals. I recommend reading and storing the Tech. Journals for they prove to
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be good for past and future reference. LOD/H Technical Journals may be
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downloaded from any of the various systems reviewed at the end of this Report.
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UNIX SYSTEM NEWSLETTER: TSR
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Usr/Group, the International Association fo Unix Systems Users, began
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publishing a beweekly newsletter last month to cover the Unix Systems
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Marketplace.
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The Usr/Digest summarizes product introductions and enhancements,
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corporate announcements, industry projections, and other time-sensative events
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that relate specifically to the Unix OS.
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FIBER OPTICS IN THE HOME: TSR
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Like many real estate developers, packaged-goods poineer Jeno F.
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Paulucci, the founder of both Jeno's Inc. and Chung King, is betting big on
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newfangled telecommunications system. He thinks tha fiber-optic cable will
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help him lure businesses to what he envisions as a 3,500 acre, $1 billion "city
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of the future" just outside Orlando. (Sounds like my type of city -- but not
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along with the newfangled security systems.) But in a new twist, Paulucci's
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Heathrow Development Co. is teaming up with Southern Bell and Northen Telcom to
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take fiber optic-cable one step further than it has gone before -- directly
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into the subscribers' homes.
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Eventually, that partnership will allow the first 250 residents moving
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into Heathrow next year to enjoy the benefits of cable TV, movie rentals,
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security and energy-management systems, computerized data, and phone service
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through a single telecommunications line.
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Other U.S. phone companies also are plunging into residential trials
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with optical-cable. American Telephone & Telegraph and southwestern Bell are
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teaming up on a pilot project involving 100 homes in Leewood, Kan., while GTE
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has request regulatory aproval to wire more than 5,000 homes in Cerritos,
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outside Los Angeles.
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"These are the first serious experiments in the U.S.," says John P.
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Ryna, manager of the fiber-optics group at Electronicast Corp., a San Mateo
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(Calif.) markey resercher. Ryan thinks the home market for fiber-optics
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technology is poised to take off early in the next decade. He figures some
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900$ million worth of fiber-otic cable and equipment wil be sold to regional
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phone comanies this year, though almost exclusively for business applications.
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But by 1995, Ryan anticipates residential sales could account for 75% of a
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market worth some 4$ billion. "Ultimately, these trials will drive the
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technilogy," he says. "It's where the exonomics will be sorted out."
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MORE GLOBAL CLOUT FOR MCI: TSR
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It was the right deal at the right price. MCI Communications Corp.
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announced on Sept. 3 that it wil buy telex giant RCA Global Communications
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Inc. from General Electric Co. for 160$ million. While newer communications
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services are supplanting telex, MIC seems to have gotten a bargain. It picked
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up a crack engineering staff and a host of medium-size business customers.
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But the biggest value may be Globecom's world presence: MCI's share of the
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international data transmission business will jump to about 45% from roughly
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20%, giving MCI more clout in future negotiations with foreign governments.
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HORSE-RACING FANATICS BET VIA MODEM: TSR
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More then 360,000 horse-racing fanatics have special accounts for
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placing telephone bets with the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. But on busy race
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days the phone lines get jammed -- even with 1,600 operators on duty. To
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cope, the Hong Kong Club is buying. handheld portable betting terminals, so
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members can bypass the operators and post their bets, via modem, directly to
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the club's computer network. The "portabet" terminals were developed jointly
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by Kiel Corp. in Amherst, N.H., and Varitronix Ltd. of Hong Kong, which will
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be the actual manufacturing. After a test period next spring, the Jockey Club
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hopes to offer the units to as many as 100,000 bettors for less than 100$
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each.
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Allowing outsiders to dial directly to the compuer will present
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hazards. No doubt some horse-happy hackers will try to place bets from their
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own comptuers, evesdrop on expert bettors, alter bets, or otherwise tap into
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the 7$ million that flows in dialy via phone bets. To foil them, the Jockey
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Club has dired several other U.S. companies, including San Diego's
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International Totalizator Systems, to develop security far more tamperproof
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than any home-banking system no in use.
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THE IBM-MCI PARTNERSHIP FINALLY TAKES OFF: TSR
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When International Business Machines Corp. bought a 16% share of MCI
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Communications Corp. in early. in early 1986, it looked as if American
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Telephone & Telegraph Co. was in for some tough competition. Its chief rival
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in the long-distance business had teamed up with the leading computer maker,
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and together they were pithcing network services to major corporations. But
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they never seemed to get anywhere -- until now.
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On Sept. 1 the MCI-IBM team landed its first big customer: United
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Airlines Inc. The contract, valued at more then 10$ million, will increase
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MCI's share of United's long-distance phone business to 20% from 5%, the
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airline says. AT&T will stil provide the rest. IBM's contribution is NetView,
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a system that will let United route its own voice and data traffic -- both
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internally and to the MCI network. This gives United control of what was done
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by an outside carrier. United, a longtime IBM customer, was also one of the
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first to place big orders for IBM's 9370 minicomputers and PS/2 personal
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computers.
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SYNDICATE REPORT BRIEF NOTES: TSR
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A computer hacker was apprehended recently for gaining access to
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Pacific Northwestern Bell data banks, with information he gathered by raiding
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dumpters outside CO buildings. The incident promptly reminded PNB Officials
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to remind employees to put discarded records that contain priotary information
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in boxes destine for shedding.
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:::::::::::::::::Information Provided by Silent Assault 612:::::::::::::::::
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MCI is planning to replace the 5 Digit Access Code Ports with cards and
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advanced digit coding. Rumor length is 8 digits. The move was brought upon
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by excessive fraud. MCI plans to have the new format effective by the end of
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the year 1988.
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::::::::::::::::::::::::Information Provider Unknown::::::::::::::::::::::::
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WARNING -- For Hackers of State University New York/St. Francis.
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Security has been stepped up recently, according to NY Times. Apparently,
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New York State Police caught Lebanon Terrorists using the mainframe to do
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illegal dealings. Officials have been scanning the accounts for content. 1
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of the 3 Terrorists went by the name of Haidar Dhanas. An Electrical
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Engineering Dept. Chairman stated, "Given the security system around here I
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am not very suprised that someone used our Labs at will."
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Officials also recovered information on stolen military hardware,
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15,000$ worth of video recorders, TVs, and microwaves apparently being
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bought with stolen credit cards.
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:::::::::::::::::::::Information Provided by Chameleion:::::::::::::::::::::
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Those of you that don't know, I've produced a new file. It was released
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on September 7th '87. The file was titled: 3rd Party Fraud and Voice Mail
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Systems. Since Voice Mail Systems are becoming so common, there had to be
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another advantage to them, rather than leaving message remotely with PWs/Codes
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and the like. This file introduces you to another use for VMS's. I'm thinking
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of setting out a 'Part 2' for the 3rd Party Fraud/VMS file, since new ideas and
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developments on VMS's have recently came to my attention. Expect Part 2. and
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Enjoy The Syndicate Report. -The Sensei / TSR
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301 Area -- Freeworld // Private is an official Syndicate Report sponsor
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BBS. The system operator is Major Havoc, and CoOp is Disk Jockey. The system
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runs from 300 to 9600 Baud. It has a remote AE line also in the 301 Area, ran
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by The Rodent. Both systems offer the best in professional telecommunications.
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Phrack Inc. Newsletters, LOD/H Technical Journals, Misc. Philes, and complete
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TeleCom SubBoards are also featured on Freeworld // Private.
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Freeworld // Private, see below \ Freeworld // Transfer System :: 301-337-2194
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TSR will accept additional sponsor/support Systems. If you have an
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interest in the Report, and wish to provide support to TSR -- Leave your BBS
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number and any other information to TSR VMS Lines listed above.
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Brewery 314-394-8259 : Freeworld // 301-668-7657 : Lunatic Labs 612-645-7132
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Realm of Reality 612-420-6486 : Osuny* 914-725-4060 : Exec. Inn 915-581-5145
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 15
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(Part 2)
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by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released September 21st, 1987
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