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001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19
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1$If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
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2$************************* INSTALLED: 16 SEP 89 ***************************
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3$Welcome to BWMS II (BackWater Message System II) Mike Day System operator
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4$**************************************************************************
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5$GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6$ PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7$BWMS II was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS II is a privately
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8$owned and operated system which is currently open for use by the general
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9$public. No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the
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10$system is privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all
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11$messages which I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the
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12$system, it will be periodically purged of messages (only 999 lines of data
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13$can be saved). To leave a message, type 'ENTER'. Use ctrl/C to get out
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14$the ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering
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15$the message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to
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16$replace the line. To exit from the system, type 'BYE' then hang up.
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17$Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18$**************************************************************************
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002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/16/89 19:39 Msg:4369 Call:24003 Lines:5
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20 Only a fool fights in a burning house - Old Klingon proverb
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21 *********** BWMS - eight years of service to the modeming public *********
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22 One century of archives have gone. We now face a whole new century.
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23 **************************************************************************
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003=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 09/16/89 20:12 Msg:4370 Call:24004 Lines:8
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25 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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26 Wahoo! This is getting to be a trend. On the TOP for two disks in a row!
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27 Hey, the view from up here is great! You can see for a thousand lines!
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28 Look! Over there, in the distance! I #think# I see a news entry. Oh well,
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29 Oh well, if Exxon can do it to Alaska, they can do iit to Backwater.
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31 Any aquatic animal life present here on Pyrrix Aaal has been warned.
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32 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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004=Usr:366 berney dunn 09/16/89 22:40 Msg:4371 Call:24008 Lines:6
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33 According to my CRC Handbook, Earth's semimajor axis of orbit is about 1.50 *
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34 10 E 8 kilometers, Jupiter's is about 7.78 *10E8 k's, or about 5.19 times as
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35 far out; the inverse square law says sunlight at J is 26.9 times dimmer. Solar
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36 power is considered usable out to about Mars, 2.28 *10E8 k's, where sunlight is
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37 2.31 times dimmer than here. We get about 1 kilowatt per square meter (above
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38 atmosphere), a good photoelectric cell recovers about 8 percent of that, with
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005=Usr:366 berney dunn 09/16/89 22:47 Msg:4372 Call:24009 Lines:23
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39 new prototypes about twice that, or far below good enough for Jupiter orbit.
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40 In any case, to redesign now would put the probe out into the next century.
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41 As far as plutonium being a deadly poison, or even as the claims read "the
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42 deadliest poison on earth", if falls far short. Radiation is cumulative, so a
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43 radioactive substance can be described by the time multiplied by the quantity
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44 that will kill you, for plutonium a good estimate says 20 micrograms will take
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45 about 100 years to kill you. If you take 1 pound, split it up 5 billion ways,
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46 1 dose per person, you get 200 times less than that, so if nothing else
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47 intervenes, it should kill everyone in about 20,000 years. I don't grseatly
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48 fear soething that will take 10 times as long as all recorded history to kill
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49 me. By comparison, that 20 micrograms, if it was say South American frog
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50 poison, would kill in minutes. Cyanide at that level would kill a small child.
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51
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52 On a lighter level, what do you think a "higher civilization" would do to us
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53 when we make contact, that is when they land here? Do you think they would
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54 greet us as equals 'welcome to the brotherhood of spacers', treat us like the
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55 ant at a picnic 'please pass the Raid', or perhaps put us in zoos, or keep us
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56 as pets, or would they even know we are here?
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57 If I opt for the pet theory, it is because we, that is all human cultures,
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58 keep pets, so, maybe??, all thinking species do (other species sometimes seem
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59 to, also), and the qualities that make a good pet pretty well describe humans.
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60 Disease resistance, gregariousness, carnivorous, (but not too hungry), etc.
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61 .......................................B.A.D. ...........................
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006=Usr:272 Talos 09/17/89 00:16 Msg:4373 Call:24012 Lines:37
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70 <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><
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71 So thi sis the future? Ah well. If someone would have told me 10 years ago
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72 that I'd be sending message by computer over my telephone I would've just
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73 stared at them because I was on medication at that time.
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74 I had the toughest time driving home tonight. I was driving down eigth and I
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75 had to get to 1st, and I was thinking "What side street do I need to take to
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76 get from 8th to 1st?" Then I remembered Einstein postulating that eventually
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77 parralell lines meet. So I'm coming back on the Jersey Turnpike and my mom said
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78 "You missed the exit, back up!" I said "Mom, you don't back up on a Super high-
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79 way, there's three big lanes, more than enough to make a U-turn like you're
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80 supposed to." My car doesn't steer well anyway. I put a lock on the steering
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81 wheel, but I lost the key. Now I can only drive in a straight line. And if I
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82 want to make a turn I have to go partway into the intersection and turn off the
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83 lights and wait for someone to sideswipe me.
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84 I called the mechanic and said my car starts but it doesn't move. He saieck
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85 the trans. So I said to my brother "Take off the dress and help me with this
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86 thing!" I called this other mechanic and said "I was going down this really
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87 steep hill and I went to slam on the brakes and they didn't work." He said "It
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88 sounds like you lost a lot of fluid." I said, "Well, who wouldn't?"
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89 I took my cousin to the park. I go to the playground a lot to watch the kids
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90 jump up and down and scream, cause they don't know I'm using blanks. Well, it's
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91 good excercise anyway.
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92 He says "Push me on the swing!" so I push him and he says "Hard!" So I
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93 push him again and he says "Give me a real push ya wimp!" So I back up 50 feet
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94 and run. I push him and he says "Give me a REAL push, ya PANSY!" So I back up
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95 the buick. He got out of the way, and so should I.
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96 Thank you for beeing my friend.
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97 Talos Valheru
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98 <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>
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007=Usr:322 Stray Cat 09/17/89 07:48 Msg:4374 Call:24017 Lines:8
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99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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101@Got some cards last night and came up with revolution for work; heaven/lake
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102 got some cards last night... same up with firelake/work; heavenlake>windthun-
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103 der/you; windlake>windheaven/city; heavenwater>firewater/h;windwind>windfire/
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104 mom. Real interesting the way it works.
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008=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/17/89 17:52 Msg:4375 Call:24027 Lines:6
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107 &*&*&*&*'s
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108 I hear the sound of silence. Come out, Come out wherever you are!
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110 An Astral Dreamer
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111 &*&*&*&*'s
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009=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 09/17/89 22:10 Msg:4376 Call:24032 Lines:4
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113 *%_#@)(%!)_(%)_(%)_@~(%$_@~+()%_@)_+!)$_+_)$@(%_@_+$%_)@(%)@_(%_)@(%)#_$(%)_$#@
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114 Mike: Did you get your PAK file? It want over to percy this weekend. If not,
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115 bug your local unix sysadmin! :-)
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116 @*$_@#$)_@*$)_*$)_@$_@(#$)_@*)_@$)_@$( L'homme sans Parity $*@!#)_$!_@)$*_!)@($
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010=Usr:29 The Bard 09/18/89 19:59 Msg:4377 Call:24048 Lines:5
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117 Is there any simple way to get the ANSI text here to be *bright* rather than
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118 dim? I did it once, but have no idea how!
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119 (since my system is set up fort a blue background, I can't read blue text
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120 unless it is *bright* blue.... :-)
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121 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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123 Bard, The system desn't specifically set to high or low intensity. So if
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124 you can set your display to high intensity it should remain that way.
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125 If you can get it to echo <esc>[1m where <esc> is the Ascii Escape code,
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126 that will cause your display to go into bright mode if it responds to the
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127 ansi codes. Alternately, set the display up the way you want it before yo
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128 call BWMS. BWMS doesn't ever reset the screen, so any mode like that you set
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129 will remain in effect.
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130 BTW, with COPYLINK it's a piece of cake, just go to the command line and
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012=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/18/89 22:21 Msg:4379 Call:24051 Lines:8
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131 type: PRINT ESC "[1m"
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132 ***********************************************************************
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133 LSP: (gee, sounds like a drug...) No, the PAcKage hasn't arived yet.
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134 I think this shortcut is turning out to be the long way around...
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135 Laser printer isn't working, yesterday it was doing a good job of
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136 spitting out blank paper, today it won't even do that. Sigh...
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137 But then for the price, what can I expect, perfection? <grin>
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138 *********************************************************************
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013=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/19/89 01:22 Msg:4381 Call:24059 Lines:87
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139 696969696969
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140 18-SEP-1989 20:26 Actor Zimbalist testifies at PTL trial; IRS agent dismissed
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141 By JUNE PRESTON
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142 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) -- Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. testified Monday that the
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143 PTL board he served on for five years was a rubber stamp for the wishes of
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144 Bakker and other ministry leaders.
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145 "It was called the board of directors but it did not function as a board
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146 usually does, which is as a regulatory body," Zimbalist said. "It was a board o
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147 affirmation only. I never assumed I was acting as a director of that
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148 organization because the board didn't do that."
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149 Late in the day the government presented another star witness, Bakker himsel
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150 as most people knew him, on videotape offering the deal of a lifetime,
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151 partnerships at PTL's Heritage Grand Hotel.
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152 The partnerships are the heart and soul of the government's case against
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153 Bakker, who is on trial on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 12
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154 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
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155 Prosecutors say the television preacher fleeced his flock with a classic
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156 pyramid scheme, taking in $158 million from people who typically gave him $1,00
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157 apiece in return for a promise of three nights' lodging each year for at PTL's
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158 South Carolina resort.
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159 Bakker was silent as the first composite video rolled, a 1984 clip promoting
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160 partnerships in PTL's Heritage Grand Hotel, which was then under construction.
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161 He said God had given him a vision and the devil was battling to take it away.
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162 "The devil tried to put a fever on me yesterday, but the Lord healed me and
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163 now I'm feeling like a race horse, just raring to go," Bakker said on the tape.
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164 "The devil's really mad about this, but I don't care -- I'm glad when the devil
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165 gets mad."
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166 Zimbalist, tanned and wearing glasses below a furrowed brow and a mane of
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167 white hair, said he did not recall approving six-figure bonuses for Bakker, his
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168 wife, Tammy Faye, and other ministry leaders.
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169 The actor, who smiled broadly and winked at Bakker as he left the courtoom,
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170 also joined other former board members intestifying he was not aware PTL was
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171 drowning in red ink at the same time the Bakkers allegedly took millions in
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172 bonuses.
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173 "I assumed there was enough money at PTL," he said. "It was not an estate to
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174 run itself at all, but if it had been completed, it could have run on its own.
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175 The income of PTL was a very loose thing. Mr. Bakker was always able to go on
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176 the air and plead for money. It was not a finite thing."
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177 But Zimbalist, questioned by prosecutor Jerry Miller, played down the
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178 government's allegations that Bakker oversold lifetime partnerships to PTL
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179 supporters and misappropriated the proceeds.
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180 "The funds may not have been spent as designated but I don't see it as the
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181 great malfeasance you wish me to, Mr. Miller, because it was always possible to
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182 raise more money," he said.
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183 Zimbalist, who said he joined the board in January 1981 at Bakker's urging,
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184 said he finally became aware of the ministry's financial troubles about five
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185 years later when he recorded cassette tapes for PTL and the man who made the
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186 tapes, a good friend, did not get paid.
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187 "I recorded the Bible on cassettes," Zimbalist said. "These tapes were made
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188 available to PTL as a money-raising tool. I didn't want any royalties and
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189 wouldn't have accepted it anyway.
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190 "There were several reasons why I left the board," he added. "One was becaus
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191 the person producing these tapes was a close friend. Second, I was not at ease
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192 as a board member. And third, a philosophical change took place in my life. I
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193 began to move away from that area of religious practice, possibly because of
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194 what I saw at PTL. I changed my feeling."
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195 After attending a half-dozen meetings over a five-year period, Zimbalist, wh
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196 gained fame portraying the lead character in the television series "The FBI,"
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197 resigned from the board in January 1986.
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198 The prosecution's attempt to call its next witness, IRS examiner Larry
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199 Howlett, brought an objection from Bakker's lawyers, who said the government wa
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200 attempting to bring details of a separate civil proceeding against Bakker into
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201 the criminal trial.
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202 In the civil case, heard as part of PTL's bankruptcy proceedings, now-retire
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203 Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds imposed a $6.6 million judgment against the
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204 Bakkers on grounds of excessive compensation and what he found to be Bakker's
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205 mismanagement of the ministry.
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206 Prosecutor Deborah Smith told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter the
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207 government wanted to call Howlett to prove "that as early as 1982, Mr. Bakker
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208 was warned repeatedly that with his excessive salaries, he endangered the
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209 tax-exempt status of his ministry."
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210 "He manipulated the board of directors by withholding financial information,
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211 she continued. "He took excessive bonuses. The bankruptcy of PTL has certainly
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212 been an issue in this case."
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213 But Bakker co-counsel Harold Bender argued that the two matters should be
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214 kept separate.
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215 "I submit what (the prosecutors) are trying to do is much more prejudicial
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216 than what they have done to date," Bender said. "They are trying to get on
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217 evidence the tax matter. I ask that your honor not allow this into evidence."
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218 Potter sustained the defense objection and dismissed Howlett as a witness.
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219 Bakker's trial on 24 counts of fraud and cons
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220 piracy has had several delays,
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221 most notably when the evangelist was committed to a federal institution for a
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222 psychiatric evaluation. He was found competent to continue.
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223 If convicted on all charges, Bakker could receive prison terms totaling 120
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224 years.
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014=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/19/89 01:36 Msg:4382 Call:24060 Lines:100
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226 MEANWHILE, continuing on the religous/legal front:
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228 13-SEP-1989 22:43 Sex church files civil rights suit
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229 LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- A couple convicted last week on prostitution charges
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230 stemming from the sexual rituals at their church sued the police chief and city
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231 attorney Wednesday, alleging their civil rights were violated.
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232 Mary Ellen Tracy, who is known as Sabrina, high priestess of the Church of
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233 the Most High Goddess, was convicted Friday of two counts of prostitution. She
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234 and her husband, Will, the high priest, were both convicted of operating a hous
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235 of prostitution.
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236 The Canyon Country couple said their religion requires sexual rituals of its
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237 members, who donated cash to the church.
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238 The Tracys said an undercover police officer lied to gain admission and
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239 instruction in the church's ritual, but refused to perform a "dedication" ritua
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240 -- oral sex -- on Mary Ellen Tracy.
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241 As soon as he left, eight police officers searched the church's Hollywood
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242 rectory, seized their cash and records, punched them both and called Mary Ellen
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243 "a whore," the Tracys said.
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244 In their lawsuit against Police Chief Daryl Gates and City Attorney James
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245 Hahn, Tracy said a search last April of the rectory, their treatment by the
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246 police and their conviction on prostitution charges constituted the creation of
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247 an official state religion in violation of their constitutional rights.
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248 He said he would seek an order from U.S. District Judge William M. Byrne on
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249 Monday allowing the church to operate exempt from state laws banning sex for
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250 money.
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251
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252 On the "drug war" front:
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253 CONTAMINATED FOOD SERVED:-9/18/89
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254 The investigative committee that watches over federal regulatory agencies
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255 will hear evidence on imported foods inspections, revealing contaminated foods
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256 were innocently eaten. Many got sick. Food and Drug Administration
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257 Commissioner Frank Young, still reeling from the generic drug attacks, blames
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258 the lack of inspections on lack of funds.
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259
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260 FDA FAULTS EXAMINED:
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261 Faulty procedures for reporting medical device failures have led to
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262 injuries, according to a federal investigative panel. Details will be heard by
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263 the Food and Drug Administration this fall. A possible cover-up between the
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264 FDA and Seimens Medical Systems Inc. will also be investigated. The firm makes
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265 an ultrasound machine that allegedly doesn't discover fetal deformaties.
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266
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267 NO SUPPORT FOR INSPECTIONS:-9/18/8
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268 Despite recognizing a need for better seafood inspection, the Bush
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269 administration told a House panel Friday it cannot support proposed
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270 legislation calling for mandatory, comprehensive inspections of fin fish and
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271 shellfish. Congress is considering three bills designed to initiate a
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272 mandatory seafood inspection program.
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273 New proposals before Congress concerning seafood inspection include on-
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274 call inspectors, increased routine monitoring of fish at processing plants,
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275 more testing of shellfish for chemical contamination and more federal efforts
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276 to curtail harvesting and distribution of shellfish from closed and
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277 contaminated waters, according to Friday reports.
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278 At Friday's hearing by the House Health and Environment Subcommittee,
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279 officials of the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of
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280 Agriculture each said their respective agency is best to handle proposed
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281 seafood inspection programs. If such inspections become mandatory by law,
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282 Congress must decide which federal agency -the FDA or the Agriculture - should
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283 take on the task.
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284 President George Bush, commenting to reporters in Spokane, said: "Let them
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285 eat cake -- I mean, imported fish. We have more important things to do with
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286 the taxpayers money, such as causing the prices of illegal drugs to rise to the
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287 point that only we overly-rich Republicans will be able to afford crack."
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288
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289 COCAINE PRICES SOAR IN U.S.:-9/18/89
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290 The U.S. cocaine capitals - Los Angeles and Miami - are reporting changes
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291 in the drug flow and price, threatening a rise in crime. Cocaine activity on
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292 the streets is declining in Miami, but steady in L.A. A kilo of cocaine in
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293 Miami has gone from $11,000 to $18,000 in eight weeks; in Los Angeles, it's
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294 jumped from $10,000 to as high as $23,000 in six months, officials say.
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295 The more you snort, the more "they" make. The wider the "drug war" expands
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296 the more "they" make. No wonder the United States government was dealing coke
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297 to finance the Contras (and who knows what else). Maybe there's a way out of
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298 the federal deficit hole here. Hire the Medellin cartel and Noriega's boys
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299 to work for the US treasury dept. Solve a couple problems at once. As Lee
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300 Atwater, leader of the National Republican Committee said: "We don't care, we
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301 don't have to, we're Republicans."
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302
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303 FORD CITED AS MOST PROBLEMATIC:-9/18/89
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304 Thirty-seven percent of 117 automotive fleet managers said Fords broke
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305 down most often, a survey by the Runzheimer firm says. Twenty-six percent
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306 named Dodge, and 18 percent said Chevrolets. Taurus and Tempo were the Ford
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307 models cited most often. For Dodge, it was the Diplomat and for Chevrolet, the
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308 Caprice. Oldsmobile was named most problematic by 7 percent, Chrysler by 4
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309 percent.
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311 696969696969696969
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313 B.A.D. - What is the source for your claims about Plutonium? Do you really
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314 believe the Nuclear industry's "facts" and statistics about safety and the
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315 toxicity of Nuclear matter? Don't you feel their credibility is somewhat
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316 questionable in light of all that has happend in the history of Nuclear
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317 development in this country? The point of the fuss over Galileo is: "Why
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318 take such a risk?" If it was anything else, you would no doubt agree that
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319 1 in 2500 or 1 in 25 odds of a catastrophic explosion in the Shuttle is not
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320 worth the risk. But then you probably feel a nuclear power plant, or
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321 radioactice waste dump site should be built in your backyard? Why not launch
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322 Galileo with a more dependable missle? Why not re-think your technical hubris?
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323 Plutonium IS the most toxic substance on earth. The minutest quantity inhaled,
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324 or on your skin will kill you. In a long, agonizing, terrible death. Is that
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325 what you wish for all of the people on the earth if there is an accident?
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015=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/19/89 10:40 Msg:4383 Call:24076 Lines:17
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326 &*&*&*&*'s
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327 There ain't no alternitive. I'm not getting off of this planet, but I'd like
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328 to see my kids having the option. And the only way for that to happen is
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329 for us to explore and exploit space. We're living in our own excrement right
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330 now, and its only a matter of time before it gets so toxic that we can't live.
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331 In some areas of the world it already is.
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332
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333 Everything is a risk. I believe that 1. this is worth it. and 2. (And this
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334 may sound strange coming from me, as I tend to be way out in left field.)
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335 You average liberal (Much like your average conservative.) Will believe
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336 anything the 'party' leaders feed them. An eploration of the facts is in
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337 order, and those presented by both sides are suspect.
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338
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339 An Astral Dreamer
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340 &*&*&*&*'s (Tired of people making emigration to the USSR the only option
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341 if one wants to get anywhere outside of the earths atmosphere.)
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342
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344 News Person: You are a jerk. Not only do you continue to upload rehashed news
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345 articles from other sources, but when you upload garbage, you don't even
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346 clean up after yourself! Gee, thanks for all those lines about the PTL trial
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347 that were barely legible, quickly followed by a "proper" upload of the same
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348 file. I know Backwater has a cistern-op, but that doesn't mean it's for you
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349 to use like a bathroom that you don't even clean up after you use it. If you
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350 insist, and it appears that you do, on uploading these incessant articles, at
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351 least delete your mistakes.
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017=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 09/19/89 16:17 Msg:4385 Call:24082 Lines:7
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354 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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355 Well, it appears that it is time for another episode in the story. I have
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356 fallen down in my duty here of late. I will rectify it soon, as I no
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357 longer have to worry about the new position. Someone else has it. Waah!
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358 Now everybody feel sorry for Friar........OK, I feel better now.
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359 Will post this week or week-end, I really promise.
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360 [][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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018=Usr:394 Rayall the Pirat 09/19/89 18:38 Msg:4386 Call:24083 Lines:2
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361 ARRRRR!
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362 NOTHING IN TH' SEA SURPRISES ME!
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019=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/19/89 18:49 Msg:4387 Call:24084 Lines:5
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363 **************************************************************************
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364 Anyone out there have access to service manuals for an NCR 6416 laser
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365 printer? I need one, but NCR won't sell it to me because I'm not an
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366 "authorized service center" sigh...
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367 ******************************* CM ****************************************
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020=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 09/19/89 18:54 Msg:4388 Call:24084 Lines:6
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368 Ralph Steadman: Could you please hold down the new entries to under 100
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369 lines? There is a reason why there is a limit to a maximum of 100 lines per
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370 session. I had allowed the ability to call back up and continue to enter
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371 for people who needed to finish off an entry, but please don't abuse it.
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372 Thank you.
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373 ************************** CISTOP MIKEY **********************************
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021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/20/89 21:37 Msg:4389 Call:24108 Lines:3
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374
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375 Is this hibernation time?
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022=Usr:366 berney dunn 09/20/89 23:34 Msg:4390 Call:24110 Lines:37
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377 ................................................................
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378 I get my data on plutonium from the truly huge data base of facts that exist
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379 on the subject. (There is also a almost as large base of junk, too.) The
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380 specific dose mentioned 20 micrograms, was in reference to a list in an article
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381 (it's been sevral years, so I can't say now in which magazine) listing some of
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382 the deadlier poisons. About 20 of them are believed to be fatal to 50% of
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383 average humans with a dose of less than 20 mikes (not cistop mikes). Pu is
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384 certainly not one of them. The hazard of radioactive substances is inversely
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385 proportional to the half life, as the things with shorter half lives give off
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386 more radiation in a shorter period of time. Pu does concentrate in the bones,
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387 which makes it slightly more dangerous than say rdioactive sodium, which
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388 collest mainly in muscle. If muscle dies, you just replace it, but when bone
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389 marrow dies, you lose red blood cells ( and white cells, too, tho less). In
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390 Either case, radaition deaths are about propotional to dosage if the dose is
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391 lower than the 'clinical dose' that causes immediate sickness. Radium, for
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392 example is far more dangerous because its shorter half life causes it to emit
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393 radiation faster. Pu on the skin is essentially harmless, it washes right off.
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394 As for the question 'why not launch Galileo on a safer missile?', there is no
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395 safer missile, but in any case the risk to human life is immeasurably small.
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396 By the way, where do you get your so called facts? Many nuclear uses are
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397 military, which can afford accurate measurements, which have been made. The
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398 early tests are long since in the public domain. On the other hand, most food
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399 hazards are unmeasured. However, we do know that mustard, horseradish, and
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400 common black pepper are carcinogenic. As well as peanuts. Or, in fact just
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401 about anything that has been carefully enough tested. Very few things have
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402 been. No money in it, and no potential for military uses, either. As for
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403 our rapidly poinsoning ourselves, it is obvious we are, just look at how long
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404 poeple live: late Roman times, about 29 years average, civil war times, about
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405 49 years, now, due to the poisons, only about 79 years. thanks, but I'll take
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406 the food additives that prevent decay (and thus food poisoning).
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407 Though, I suppose you might qualify as one who takes no risks unnecesarily,
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408 so if you don't smoke, drink, eat peanuts, or drive a car, burn wood for heat,
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409 or do anything else dangerous go ahead and throw the first stone. By the way,
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410 I am concerned by the unnecessary risk you pose to me if you drive and smoke,
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411 the combination is much more dangerous to your fellow persons than NASA'a
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412 most deadly stunt.
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413 ....................................B.A.D.................................
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023=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 09/21/89 01:17 Msg:4391 Call:24114 Lines:58
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414
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415
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416 {+}{+}{+}{+}
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417
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418 SOME LINES FOR OUR TIMES
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419
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420 People want a miracle
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421 They say "O Lord, can't you see us?
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422 We're trying to make a livin' down here
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423 And keep the children fed"
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424 But, from little dark motel rooms
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425 To "Six Flags over Jesus"
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426 "How are the mighty fallen"
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427 So the Bible said
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428
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429 (From "Little Tin God" by Don Henley)
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430
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431 Quoting from the scriptures
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432 With patriotic tears
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433 We got the same old men
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434 With the same old fears
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435 Standing at attention
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436 Wrapped in stars and stripes
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437 They hear the phantom drummers
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438 And the nonexistent pipes
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439 These days the buck stops nowhere
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440 No one takes the blame
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441 But evil is still evil
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442 In anybody's name
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443
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444 (From "If Dirt Were Dollars" by Don Henley)
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445
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446 Now it's take and take and takeover, takeover
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447 It's all take and never give
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448 All these trumped up towers
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449 They're just golden showers
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450 Where are people supposed to live?
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451 You can arm yourself and alarm yourself
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452 But there's nowhere you can run
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453 'Cause a man with a briefcase
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454 can steal more money than any man with a gun
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455 You don't have to ask permission
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456 To take something from another man
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457 You cross a lawyer with the Godfather
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458 Make an offer that you can't understand
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459
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460 (From "Gimme What You Got" by Don Henley)
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461
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462 Time flies like the wind
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463 Fruit flies like bananas
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464
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465 (From the wall of the men's room at the Leaky Roof Tavern)
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466
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467 -+|[ ThingFish ]|+-
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468
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470 {+}{+}{+}{+}
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471
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024=Usr:394 Rayall the Pirat 09/21/89 19:39 Msg:4392 Call:24124 Lines:1
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472 A TAVERN? ARR!
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025=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/21/89 22:58 Msg:4393 Call:24127 Lines:17
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473 &*&*&*&*'s
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474 (If you see a ^I before this you need to change your setup so that
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475 it actually sends tabs rather then ^I. For more details type 'help' at
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476 the command prompt.)
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477
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478 Now, on to other things. I'm working on a few stories, and hope
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479 to have somthing ready for posting in a week or two. I like to either be
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480 finished or well under way before posting, as it lessens or eliminates the
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481 chance that I will lose interest and leave everybody hanging.
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482
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483 And now a quote. "Quit my job down at the carwash, didn't have to
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484 write no note that reads 'The checks in the mail, and I'll see you in church
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485 , and don't you ever change.'"
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486 'They Might be Giants. (John FlansBurgh & John Linnell.)'
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487
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488 An Astral Dreamer
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489 &*&*&*&*'s
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026=Usr:398 DELTA FIVE 09/22/89 14:35 Msg:4394 Call:24134 Lines:18
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490 [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] [*=*] [*=[*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA
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491 The setting sun slipping below the glassy horizon gave a kaleidoscopic look to
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492 the gently swelling sea. On the beach, two men sat before a small fire absently
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493 watching the swaying shadows cast by the fingerlike palm trees.
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494 One of the two men, of obvious military bearing, poked at the embers with a
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495 stick, and looked at the other. "You're absolutely sure it was McKane?" he aske
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496 d, a barely concealed sigh escaping his lips as he spoke.
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497 "No doubt about it, General. He was positively identified by two of the
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498 Albanians men"
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499 "Well, here we go again", replied the stocky man with the bullet shaped head.
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500 A few minutes later a Lear jet with no markings soared across the deepening pur
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501 ple sky, a wispy black trail of smoke behind ...
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502 [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] [*=*] [*=[*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] DELTA
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503
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504 save
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505 help
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506 ex
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507 ?
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027=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/22/89 18:52 Msg:4395 Call:24138 Lines:100
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508 696969696969 My apologies to CISTOP...no Abuse intended......
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509 COURT FAVORS EXXON:-9/8/89
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510 The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska denied
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511 Thursday petitions for discovery filed by private plaintiffs
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512 regarding the inadvertent erasure of some backup computer
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513 tapes relating to the Valdez oil spill, Exxon Co. said. The
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514 decision was in favor of Exxon, which has said from the
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515 beginning that the tapes were never designed to retain
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516 documents.
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517 Exxon Corp. abruptly halted its program to rescue wildlife
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518 from the Alaska oil spill, angering U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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519 officials and environmentalists who said the migratory bird
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520 season is just beginning. Exxon - responsible for the March
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521 spill, the USA's worst - previously said it would halt spill
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522 cleanup operations Sept. 15. The toll so far: 34,044 dead
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523 birds and 993 sea otters. APn 09/13/89 By RITA BEAMISH
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524 Associated Press Writer
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525 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dan Quayle and
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526 Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner will visit Alaska next
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527 week to check on progress being made in cleaning up the Exxon
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528 oil spill as the company gears down its efforts for the
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529 winter, officials said Wednesday.
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530 The visit, coming as Quayle heads to Asia for 12 days, is
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531 intended to refocus attention on the nation's worst oil spill.
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532 A grounded Exxon tanker last March dumped 11 million gallons
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533 of oil along the state's shoreline.
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534 Quayle will be "briefed on the situation up there. We hope
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535 to meet with some concerned citizens," as well as Coast Guard
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536 and state officials during the 2 1/2 hour stopover at
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537 Elmendorf Air Force Base, said the vice president's press
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538 secretary, David Beckwith. He said that it was undecided
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539 whether Quayle would meet with Exxon officials, but that he
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540 was "extremely interested in the company's views."
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541 Exxon has disagreed with state and federal officials
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542 throughout the course of the clean-up on the adequacy of the
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543 company's efforts.
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544 "There's still a good deal of uncertainty about the future
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545 of the clean-up program. We hope there's less uncertainty
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546 after we leave," said Beckwith.
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547 The Alaskan stop as Quayle flies to Korea, Japan, the
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548 Philippines and Malaysia.
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549 President Bush had hoped to visit Alaska as part of a
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550 western swing early next week, but the White House scrapped
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551 those plans.
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552 Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Wednesday that
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553 Bush's September travel schedule was too busy, and that the
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554 Alaskan weather turns too inclement to schedule the trip
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555 before next spring.
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556 However, other sources who requested anonymity had said
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557 earlier that administration officials convinced Bush it would
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558 not be politically beneficial to refocus attention on the
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559 spill, after initial criticism that he took too long to get
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560 the federal government involved in the clean-up.
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561 Asked about the administration position on the amount of
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562 oil still not cleaned up, Fitzwater said "I don't think we can
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563 characterize that situation. We're running into bad weather up
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564 there and we'll have to see how things look in the fall in
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565 terms of the spill clean-up."
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566 Quayle and Skinner, who will not be going on the rest of
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567 Quayle's trip, will receive briefings from the clean-up
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568 coordinator, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Clyde Robbins, and others
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569 on the progress of cleaning up the March 24 spill from the
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570 Exxon Valdez tanker.
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571 The Monday visit comes a week after an announcement by
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572 Alaska state officials that they will continue the clean-up on
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573 a limited scale when Exxon pulls out the last of its work
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574 crews Friday from the fouled coastline of Prince William Sound
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575 and the Gulf of Alaska.
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576 A spokesman for Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper said details of
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577 the state's follow up were being worked out but that the
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578 governor and state Department of Environmental Conservation
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579 were expected to agree on a light, manual clean-up effort,
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580 plus research and development during the dark and stormy
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581 winter months.
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582 The state is interested in various clean-up technques that
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583 inventers have proposed from coastal towns tainted by the spill.
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584 The governor's office said the state would expect Exxon to
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585 pay for any clean-up costs it incurred.
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586 Exxon estimates its expenses for the summer clean-up at
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587 more than $1.2 billion.
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588 ALCOHOL POLICY SET FOR OIL CREW:-9/14/89
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589 Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. in Anchorage, Alaska, refused
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590 16 crew members aboard vessels who had higher blood alcohol
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591 levels than .04, the U.S. Coast Guard's highest level for
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592 operating a commercial vessel. The firm set up the policy June
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593 1 because of the March 24 Valdez oil spill. The USS Valdez
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594 captain was proven to be intoxicated during the accident. BUSH
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595 ALASKAN TRIP CANCELED:-9/20/89
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596 President Bush was scheduled to visit the Alaskan Prince
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597 William Sound where the Exxon Valdez spilled Sept. 18, but his
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598 trip was indefinitely canceled Exxon stopped its cleanup Sept.
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599 15 because of winter. Many environmentalist believe that the
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600 job could have been done on a limited basis. Laws and lawsuits
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601 are pending to insure Exxon finishes the cleanup. EXXON
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602 TESTING ALASKAN WELL:-9/20/89
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603 Exxon plans to drill a $30 million test well at Point
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604 Thompson in the Alaskan artic to help determine the size of
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605 the well. The tract near Kaktovik, Alaska, might contain 300
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606 million barrels of gas liquids and 5 trillion cubic feet of
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607 natural gas.
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028=Usr:26 Mohammed Wassir 09/23/89 07:48 Msg:4396 Call:24150 Lines:9
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608 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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609
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610 McKane? Hmmm... the name sounds familiar. This is certainly
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611 more interesting than rehashed news.
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612
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613 Mohammed Wassir
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614 <The Albanian Firebrand>
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615
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616 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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029=Usr:29 The Bard 09/23/89 12:59 Msg:4397 Call:24155 Lines:11
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617 Anyone who is worried about the release of plutonium from Galileo's
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618 RTG's has to first explain why we aren't all dead. There have been much larger
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619 amounts released during the atomic tests in the 50's and 60's. For that matter,
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620 remember the H-bombs lost in Spain. On one of them the explosive charges
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621 detonated on impact. Since the bomb wasn't armed, all that happen was that the
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622 plutonium was scattered around. This meant that it required a bit of cleanup.
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623 Nobody died.
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624
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625 If *anybody* ever deserved the term "anti-nuke fanatic", the people fueling
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626 this fuss over the RTG's do!
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627 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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030=Usr:401 Robert Armstrong 09/23/89 20:55 Msg:4398 Call:24164 Lines:10
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628 NB: Plutonium is the most deadly "Heavy metal" toxin in the known world
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629 , not RADIOACTIVE toxin. The dose you have quoted is aprox. correct for a
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630 person of 100 Kg in mass. ( From your friend and mine, the REED library)
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631 Will the person needing a NEC laser printer manual please call 684-7110
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632 and ask for Robert A. (That's Computerland but you all won't hold it against
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633 me please) I can try to order on for you.
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634 And so, when did we change over to an all news station?
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635 TTYL,
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636 Robert A.
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637 Aka. ORION
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031=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/23/89 21:48 Msg:4399 Call:24165 Lines:6
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638 &*&*&*&*'s
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639 I suspect it happened when we all stopped participating.
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640
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641 An Astral Dreamer
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642 &*&*&*&*'s
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643
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032=Usr:13 voyeur 09/24/89 00:31 Msg:4400 Call:24169 Lines:2
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644 All too true, Astral Dreamer.
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645
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033=Usr:402 DELTA.FIVE SHANN 09/24/89 02:27 Msg:4401 Call:24170 Lines:11
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646
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647 Well, Backwater has changed in the two years that I hve been away. Where are
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648 the stories of mice and men? Of villains and heros (Like that irrascible but
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649 lovable DELTA FIVE)? Of Bards and Dreamtouchers, of Men without parity and
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650 Promethians without bounds? Of racoons and glowing ruby crystals and friendly
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651 Albanians? (How are you, Wassir, my old friend?)
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652 Whatever happened to any or every one? ala Dylan, they are indeed a changin.
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653 Well, for what it is worth, I am back.
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654 [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*] [*=*]
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655
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656 en
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034=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 09/24/89 15:08 Msg:4402 Call:24175 Lines:11
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657 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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658 Delta Five: As for those who may seem to have vanished, my experience tells me
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659 that many never left, and are simply watching from the dark corners of the
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660 Terrim Inn on Pyrrix A'aaal.
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662 As for anyone still here from the original cast, I'm still here, albiet
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663 in a different form. Perhaps, someday, I may explain the transition from
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664 lapine to man, if I ever *do* decide to haul my namesake out of the closet,
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665 but for now I'm busily chronicalling the Cloaked Man's efforts to locate Friar,
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666 on Pyrrix A'aaal, for whatever insidiousplans he's still got up his sleeves.
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667 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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035=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/24/89 16:53 Msg:4403 Call:24176 Lines:7
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668 &*&*&*&*'s
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669 Lurking. (Never write a border when you don`t really have anything to say,
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670 the muse is apt to flee from you forever for such affrontary.)
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671
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672 An Astral Dreamer
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673 &*&*&*&*'s
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674
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036=Usr:33 Mike Stanfill 09/24/89 20:07 Msg:4404 Call:24184 Lines:5
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675 _____
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676 _ __/#)
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677 _ __n --n n (#/
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678 / ~~~ ~~~ \/
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679 lurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurklurk/___/____\__\
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037=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 09/24/89 20:18 Msg:4405 Call:24185 Lines:24
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680 $*&)@(*%)(!%*)!($*%)(@%*_)$(%_)%$@)!_$%*#)%@_)%(@#)_$#)(*^%#)_^)_()_@!%*#)%~*@%
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681 Delta V: When we communicated via secure land-line the other day, I knew your
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682 intentions on reopening the McKane file, but I had no idea you would swing in
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683 to action so quickly.
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684
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685 I am glad to see you have not lost your lust for adventure, mon ami. While
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686 we weren't always aligned on exactly the same thin line, we were always
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687 heading in the same general direction - the death of that vile scum known
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688 as McKane.
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689
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690 These last two years at the Tropez school have been consuming on both a
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691 physical and mental level. I yearn for the excitement and the danger of
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692 old.
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693
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694 You remember Fellows, don't you? He did recover from the wounds he suffered
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695 in Las Vegas, but he has lost the old flame that needs to burn so bright in
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696 all of us. He works a desk job in intelligence now. Of course he excels at
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697 it, but I can see in his eyes the emptiness. He lost something in the
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698 desert, and perhaps only another mission will bring that something back.
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699
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700 Write back via courier or via land line, and we shall discuss old times
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701 and new once more. I smell something in the air, the stench of an old
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702 enemy...
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703 *@)_#*_@*)_#%)@*)_%*#)%#$)_%*)_$* L'homme sans Parity %*@)_#*%_)#*%_)#$(%$)_#%%
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704 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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705 Oooooh! My brain felt like it had been trampled upon, then tossed over
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706 a tall cliff. I took stock of my body parts. Hands, arms, shoulders.
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707 Yup. Feets, ankles, legs? Yup. Torso? You. I already knew the head was
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708 there, even if it wasn't entirely intact.
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709 The last thing I remember was hurrying after a new face at the inn, and she
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710 seemed to be so familiar, and yet she was so frightened. I must help her.
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711
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712 The pool. She mentioned the pool. Waves of darkness started to flow over me.
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713 No! I must fight against them. And I should probably seek cover against th
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714 those who had knocked me unconcious for so long.
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715
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716 I crawled and stumbled into a stand of trees, and reached into my bag for a
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717 quick sandwich. I brought forth a golden goblet instead, and I just stared at
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718 it...
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719
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720 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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721 Milch-
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722 Two full file boxes, and two years to go. is .DEV from the new system
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723 development?
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724 Friar
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725 [][][][][][]
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039=Usr:4 Milchar 09/25/89 11:26 Msg:4407 Call:24199 Lines:8
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726 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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727 Friar: The *.DEV archives came from the "test bed" BWMS II, which ran on
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728 a back door system connected to BWMS I. Which explains all of the references
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729 to that mysterious back door, and what was behind it, and why noises of
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730 construction were heard if you listened carefully. It was used to test
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731 the commands and also to communicate privately to the other authors about
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732 known bugs.
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733 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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734 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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735 Friar: Hmmmm. Knocked into a cliff? A question... Is this a reference
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736 to the Coaked Man? Or did you just decide to cancel that entry from ever
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737 taking place? I ask because, if it WAS a reference, then you must realize
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738 that the Cloaked Man had you at gunpoint, or whateverpoint from the device he
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739 possessed.
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740 If not, I'd like to know, so that I can leap out of your continuity cycle.
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741 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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041=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/25/89 16:44 Msg:4409 Call:24204 Lines:1
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742 696969696969 re "hashed" news ...
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042=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 09/25/89 16:45 Msg:4410 Call:24205 Lines:95
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743 WASHINGTON (SEPT. 22/89) UPI - The administration
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744 acknowledged Friday that it lured a suspected narcotics dealer
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745 to a park across from the White House so that it could buy
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746 President Bush a cocaine prop for his televised anti-drug
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747 speech.
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748 White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the
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749 undercover "drug sting" operation by the Drug Enforcement
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750 Administration dramatized Bush's statement that drugs are
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751 being sold virtually everywhere.
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752 "We went to the DEA and asked them if they would do a sting
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753 in front of the White House to show how easy it was,"
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754 Fitzwater said in confirming a report first carried by The
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755 Washington Post.
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756 Disclosure of the orchestrated drug purchase, in which
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757 there were no arrests, drew criticism from Capitol Hill and
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758 the American Civil Liberities Union.
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759 Sen. John Breaux, D-La., said the suspected pusher, a
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760 teenager who initially complained he didn't even know where
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761 the White House was, had been drawn to nearby Lafayette
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762 Square for a "photo opportunity."
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763 "Is this a drug war or is this only theatrics?" Breaux
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764 asked. "Is the administration really serious in fighting drugs
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765 with DEA agents, or with speechwriters?"
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766
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767
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768 Colleen O'Connor, an ACLU director in New York City, said,
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769 "This is another example of the false P.R. tactics that this
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770 administration and the previous one are so fond of." She also
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771 said, "The purpose of the DEA is to catch drug dealers, not to
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772 obtain props for speeches."
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773
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774
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775 Bush, in his nationally televised anti-drug speech on Sept.
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776 5, announced his new war on narcotics and held up a plastic
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777 bag of crack cocaine that agents claim to have purchased from
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778 the suspected dealer.
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779 "This is crack cocaine," Bush said, adding it was "seized a
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780 few days ago in a park across the street from the White
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781 House."
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782 In making the purchase, which was not a seizure, the agents
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783 set up what appears to be the agency's first undercover crack
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784 buy in Lafayette Square, the Post said, quoting officials
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785 familiar with the case.
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786 DEA spokesman William Alden maintained, however, that there
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787 had been earlier drug-investigations in the park, situated
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788 across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, and said it
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789 is routine for undercover agents to select sites for drug
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790 buys.
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791 He also confirmed that when first contacted by an
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792 undercover DEA agent posing as a buyer, the teenage suspect
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793 asked the whereabouts of the White House.
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794 "Where the (expletive) is the White House," the teenager
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795 said in a conversation secretly taped by the DEA, Alden said.
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796 Alden said that the teenager had been the target of a
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797 three-month investigation and had sold crack to agents on
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798 three previous occasions in other parts of the city.
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799 He also said that undercover agents had been in
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800 "negotiations with him for a much bigger buy." But now,
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801 because of the publicity, efforts to build a bigger case have
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802 stopped and the agency plans to arrest the suspect soon.
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803
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804 O'Connor was unsympathetic to the DEA's plight. She said,
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805 "They shouldn't be creating situations that are newsworthy in
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806 themselves ... a political scam."
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807
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808
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809 The idea of the cocaine prop first surfaced this August at
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810 Bush's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. White House
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811 communications director David Demarest asked Cabinet Affairs
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812 Secretary David Bates to contact the Justice Department about
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813 getting the drugs for Bush's speech.
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814 The Justice Department was told to find crack that fit the
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815 description in the speech, but not to go out and arrest
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816 someone just for the speech, administration aides told the
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817 Post.
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818 Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Select
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819 Committee on Narcotics Control and Abuse, and a frequent
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820 critic of White House drug-fighting efforts, seemed unmoved
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821 by this case.
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822 "Since it was a legal bust ... he doesn't feel particularly
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823 disturbed if this is the way the president wants to make his
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824 point," a spokesman said.
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825
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826
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827 Breaux complained, however, the entire matter was
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828 unnecessary. He said, "The problem is so bad, reality speaks
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829 much louder than staged events."
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830
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831
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832 Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee, commented,
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833 as he ordered another shot of whiskey, "You have to remember we're
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834 Republicans, we don't deal with reality, we deal in drugs."
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835
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836 696969696969696969
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837
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838 ----------------======================>>>>>>>> T.R.
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839 OOOFFFFF. Here I get in trouble with time again and come back to find
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840 the news on. So, here goes everything, Is there any chearful news out there?
|
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841 or am I just Dreaming that it was a sunny day.
|
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842 And did you know that time is a fluid. Anything left for long enough
|
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843 will disolve in time.
|
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844 And speaking of muses, didn't one live here? Hello? Hello?
|
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845 Oh, well. Back to being lost in time.
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846 (bamf.)
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847 <<<<<<<<<<<<=========================----------------------T.R.
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044=Usr:322 Stray Cat 09/26/89 06:30 Msg:4412 Call:24217 Lines:9
|
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848 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~califorica dreamin'
|
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849
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850 You were just dreaming ... it was somewhat muggy but not sunny. Rather
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851 ugly I thought with everything so dry and all.
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852
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853 LHSP - rattlin' her cage has not produced a reply this time. wassup?? hehe
|
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854
|
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855 ...and I'm sick again today ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~think I'll go to the doctor ...
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856
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857 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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858 Zephyr- The reference was to the cloaked man and whatever device he had.
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859 I did not mean to imply that I had actually been over a cliff, just that
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860 I felt that way. I assumed that the cloaked man shot me with something and
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861 then left me. For dead, or to summon help in carrying me or what, I don't
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862 know. Yoou could be hiding behind a rock to see what I do next, or just
|
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863 taking a leak. Your part comes up now. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
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864 Friar
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865 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][][][][][][][][]
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|
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867 Well, then, in THAT case...
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868
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871 The Cloaked Man watched his victim tumbling down the hillside to the
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872 hard stone below. Smiling, he placed the rod that he had carried back into
|
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873 his pack, and then palmed the thin, hazy line... the weapon that he had used
|
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874 against his adversary.
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875 Standing at the crest of the hill, the Cloaked Man could not help a slight
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876 feeling of satisfaction that crept into his very being. Now, here, after all
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877 his years of chasing this being across the very universe,
|
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878 the trail had finally led him to his goal. He had located the Friar.
|
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879 At last, at long last, the end of his Great Trial had begunm and his mission
|
|
880 could finally be put to rest.
|
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881 A small band around the Cloaked Man's thin wrist beeped quietly. Without
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|
882 contemplating his actions in the slightest, the Cloaked Man pointed the hazy
|
|
883 rod at the place where the Friar had been standing and pulled the trigger.
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|
884 That done, he placed the line into a holster at his side.
|
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885 Out of the corner of a silver eye, he noticed that his victim was
|
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886 just beginning to stir. The Cloaked Man's smile vanished, and he darted
|
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887 behind a large boulder that stood at the center of the top of the hill.
|
|
888 His confidence wavered momentarily. He had caught this being by surprise when
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|
889 he had first appeared to him, allowing him an easy target. But his Mentors
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890 had shown him the horror that this Friar had created, the stark destruction,
|
|
891 and now this terrible scourge of life itself was to face him. He looked down
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892 at his holster. A bead of white light was moving slowly upwards on a graph,
|
|
893 and had reached the halfway point.
|
|
894 The Cloaked Man cursed, realizing that his weapon had not yet fully
|
|
895 recharged. He glanced up at the horizon and saw the Stone Triangle pulsating
|
|
896 in the moonlight, as surely the dampher on his power generator as he was that
|
|
897 Friar was the one he sought.
|
|
898 The Cloaked Man eased out from behind the boulder cautiously, and peered
|
|
899 at the place where the Friar had come to rest.
|
|
900 His victim was still there, mst certainly. But his motions were
|
|
901 concealed, both by the angle of vision and by the green fog that filtered
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|
902 across the ground.
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|
903 The Cloaked Man reached into his pack and removed a long, silver dagger
|
|
904 that glimmered in the ample light of the three moons. If he couldn't use
|
|
905 the cutting edge of technology here, he could still use a cutting edge.
|
|
906 Friar turned, suddenly,gripping some object and holding it aloft.
|
|
907 The Cloaked Ma gasped, his dagger falling from his trembling hands to
|
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908 the ground. "The Quantier...!" he whispered. "How can he...?" He steeled
|
|
909 himself. With bitter determination, he strode down the hill. "Now
|
|
910 close the paradox." he whispered.
|
|
911 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
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912 &*&*&*&*'s
|
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913 We are nearing the end of the disk. Only another 80 or so lines to
|
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914 go. But what to fill them with? Only you know for sure.
|
|
915
|
|
916 An Astral Dreamer
|
|
917 &*&*&*&*'s
|
|
918
|
|
048=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 09/28/89 15:44 Msg:4416 Call:24267 Lines:1
|
|
919 THREE DAYS AND NO NEW ENTRIES! SWING LOW, SWEET MUSES!
|
|
049=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 09/28/89 19:56 Msg:4417 Call:24272 Lines:11
|
|
920
|
|
921 KKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | The Plot Thickens.. The Audience Sickens.......
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922
|
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923 H'lo all,
|
|
924 What's with everyone here? Where has everyone gone? Is everyone
|
|
925 somewhere else having fun without me? Why wasn't I invited? C'mon
|
|
926 people, I'm having a paranoid anxiety attack here! Post or it'll get
|
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927 worse.
|
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928
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930 KKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Line Noise Plays Hell With Emulation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
050=Usr:401 Robert Armstrong 09/28/89 20:41 Msg:4418 Call:24273 Lines:16
|
|
931 -------------------=======================>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>T.R.
|
|
932 But paranoia is very instructive.
|
|
933 And if everyone is out having fun it's without both of us.
|
|
934 AD, I live with a Muse, should I try to coax some inspiration out of her.
|
|
935 and are all Muses female? I'm not to shure about the species....
|
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936 Well, I believe that it is time to find some young aspiring writer or
|
|
937 two and turn them lose here. Does anybody have a preference of material?
|
|
938 Say, SF (hard or soft), Western, Mystry, Horror, Romance ....
|
|
939 Please forward all suggestions to T.R. and I'll try to find some
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|
940 new matterial for yarns to spin.
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941
|
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942 for;
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943 Twas brilig in the slithy toves,
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944
|
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945 so long for now.
|
|
946 T.R.<<<<<<<<<<===========================-------------------------
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051=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 09/29/89 17:53 Msg:4419 Call:24290 Lines:13
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947 &*&*&*&*'s
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948 T.R. Any sort of material would be nice.
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949 On the subject of muses, I suspect they are all female. Probably
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950 because of the mythologh as I understand it.
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951 It is best to take insperation werever you can, as it is a
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952 very shy sort of a thing, and seldom nocks more then once.
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953 Enough of my bable, lets see somebody finish this disk off. BTW,
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954 I'll be out of touch till monday. Moving. hope to see a new disk by then.
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955 I'll be soundly dissapointed otherwise.
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956
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957 An Astral Dreamer[D
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958 &*&*&*&*'s
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959
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052=Usr:394 Rayall the Pirat 09/29/89 18:29 Msg:4420 Call:24291 Lines:1
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960 Whiskey! Whiskey! Whiskey everywhere! Arr! *Hick* *Thud*.
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053=Usr:4 Milchar 09/29/89 23:02 Msg:4421 Call:24295 Lines:6
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961 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
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962 Greetings. My, life has been interesting recently. With more to come!
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963 What was that curse? "May you live in interesting times!"
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964 Celene shall be Off The Air for a few days while my laboratory undergoes
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965 a space/time shift; so, until then,
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966 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++++++ Movin' up in da world +++
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054=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 10/01/89 10:12 Msg:4422 Call:24320 Lines:1
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967 More rehashed news. Blech! 69 to you too.
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055=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 10/01/89 17:50 Msg:4423 Call:24324 Lines:1
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968 And a Hearty 96, and a 42!!
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056=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 10/02/89 12:58 Msg:4424 Call:24341 Lines:8
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969 &*&*&*&*'s
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970 Great, I'm impressed. 3 days and ten lines. Don't strain yourselves. Maybe
|
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971 its about time I found someplace else to hang out. BRING BACK THE NEWS,
|
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972 almost nobody else seems to care.
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973
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974 (You know who.)
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975 &*&*&*&*'s
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976
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977 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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978 I looked at the goblet, then I was distracted by a glint of light from
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979 the hillside. It was a person coming down the side of the hill, with
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980 a dagger in his hand. At that moment, he saw the goblet, and stopped
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981 cold.
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982 I thought it might be his, and motioned to him with it. An intense fire
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983 bolt leapt from the bowl of the cup in the direction I was pointing it.
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984
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985 Foooooom!!!!!
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986
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987 A tree to the left of the man (?) exploded in flames, and he stopped and
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988 dropped to the ground. I saw him look at an object attached to his belt
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989 and curse roundly.
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990 I was somewhat startled, having meant the man no harm. Then a thought
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991 occured to me, maybe he was the man who had hit me on the head and
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992 shoved me off of the cliff. Was that him?
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993
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994 "Who are you?" I shouted, pointing the bowl of the strange goblet towards
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995 the side of the hill above his head. "What do you want?" I tried to act
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996 menacing, but I really didn't know how to operate the goblet, if it was
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997 indeed a weapon.
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998 Then another thought. What had become of the woman I followed???
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999 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Friar [][][][][] OK, new disk time. [][][]
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