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SUBJECT: UFO SIGHTINGS ENGLAND FILE: UFO1524
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SOURCE: The Times DATE: 23 April 1990
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Italian UFO
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Rome - Thousands of Italians, including four pilots, saw a giant fireball
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and huge mass of blinding, white light speeding silently across the sky at
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the weekend one of Italy's most impressive UFO sightings.
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(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1990
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SOURCE: The Times DATE: 19 April 1990
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Baffling rise in close encounters of the Hungarian kind; UFOs
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By Gabriel Ronay
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IN THIS spring of hope and democratic renewal, the thoughts of Hungarians
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appear to be turning to UFOs. The number and variety of sightings of
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unidentified flying objects has forced the state-run Urania Observatory to
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set up a special unit for the logging of reports, among them one fairly
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close encounter of the third kind.
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According to the Centre for the Gathering of UFO Phenomena, opened in
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January in the northern town of Eger, some of the hundreds of reported UFO
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sightings follow well-known patterns. These include high-flying planes,
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Earth satellites, meteorites, meteorological balloons, and bright stars
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mistaken for UFOs. But others do not fit these well-explored sources of UFO
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mania. Several of the baffling sightings, some involving Hungarian Army
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personnel, have been found by the Centre to be more than optical illusions
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and worthy of scientific investigation.
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Mrs Judit Vass, of the Centre, singled out a series of inexplicable
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events, involving UFO sightings and an apparent encounter with giant
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extra-terrestrial creatures, at Tarnaszentmaria army barracks. These
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continued for about a month and were duly logged by the Army.
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According to the testimony of the entire unit, the UFO intrusion began on
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the night of October 20 last year with an eerie noise which increased in
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volume every 20 seconds or so. Then one of the guards noticed three shiny
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round objects preceded by a beam of light. After a while these disappeared
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over the forest behind the barracks.
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On November 20, soldiers on guard duty noticed a cloud of red mist in the
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sky with curious flashing lights inside it, followed by a UFO, shaped like
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the planet Saturn, which floated over the barracks and disappeared over the
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forest. Two of the guards reported that they were illuminated briefly with
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a powerful beam of light which made them sick. Later that night Private
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Lajos Dioszegi spotted 10ft tall figures in the forest clearing facing the
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barracks. ``They were moving as if they were chess pieces,'' he stated.
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``All the animals in the barracks pigs, sheep and dogs became frantic.''
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Mrs Vass said that among the many sightings awaiting evaluation was the
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report of a driver from the village of Lajosmizse who suddenly became aware
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of a ``flying light phenomenon'' going parallel with his car, then above
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it. It was so powerful it illuminated a 50-yard stretch either side of the
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road. When he came to a bend he braked, but his car continued on the road
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at the same speed and cornered at a 90-degree angle without skidding. The
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driver felt that ``some external power'' kept his car on the road as he had
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lost control. It lasted for another 200 yards then ceased.
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Mrs Vass said that, while there may well be perfectly rational
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explanations for some of the reports, ``we cannot ignore the inexplicable
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phenomena reported to us''.
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It is a curious coincidence that the number of UFO sightings in the
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Soviet Union in recent years appeared to increase as the country's economic
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and political problems mounted. But most Hungarians seem to be looking to
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the International Monetary Fund for salvation, not to extra-terrestrial
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beings.
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(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1990
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SOURCE: The Times DATE: 16 August 1991
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Storm in a saucer;Leading Article
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Oscar Wilde once remarked that a map of the world which did not contain
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Utopia was not worth glancing at. Whatever made him think that Utopia was
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to be found on this planet, or even in this finite universe? For
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intelligence capable of defeating the second law of thermodynamics, man
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must look to outer space. Fortunately, that need involve no more than a
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journey to Sheffield.
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The International UFO Congress, which assembled there yesterday,
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proclaims itself the scientific heart of a growth industry. Gone are the
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days when politely veiled derision greeted Sir Eric Gairy, erstwhile prime
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minister of Grenada, when he brought this important subject to the
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attention of the United Nations. In Belgium, where not a week has gone by
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for the past 18 months without a sighting, the Belgian air force has been
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scrambled on nine occasions with the full approval of its
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commander-in-chief. No less a figure than President Gorbachev now insists
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that ``the phenomenon does exist and must be treated seriously''.
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Or so Soviet newspapers report; and if he really intends to run for
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popular election, Mr Gorbachev would be insane to issue a denial. Ever
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since 1989, when a UFO was reported over Voronezh, aliens seem to have been
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massing in force in the Soviet Union. The media bristle with advice to
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women, considered more likely to be abducted than men. The Soviet Academy
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of Sciences, which would surely have no truck with mere hysteria, has
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launched a new journal, Social Sciences and Modernity, which promises to
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publish ``dialogues with the Cosmic Mind''.
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The coincidence of UFO sightings and the collapse of communism is not
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confined to the Soviet Union. So persistent are sightings in Hungary, where
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an entire army unit testified last year to the appearance at its barracks
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in Tarnaszentmaria of a Saturn-shaped UFO inhabited by 10-foot-tall beings,
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that the Urania observatory has set up a special unit to log reports. In
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Mongolia, nomads are meeting them everywhere.
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Sociologists say that the current craze for the supernatural in the
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decommunising world is part of a quest for some new faith which may either
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be KGB disinformation or put about by the aliens themselves. For it is
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apparent that the Kremlin's last, best hope of retaining superpower status
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is an alliance with extraterrestrial forces. This gives a new dimension to
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Smiley country. What credence should be attached to geological and
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meteorological ``explanations'', never mind attempts to attribute these
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phenomena to meteorites, earth satellites or even weather balloons? Have
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innocents in Wiltshire, who report that the makers of crop circles speak
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Sumerian, unwittingly uncovered the KGB's extraterrestrial spy-ring?
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As usual, the Americans have been the first to break the conspiracy of
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silence. A new book has at last provided the only convincing explanation of
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the Kennedy assassination: he was about to spill the beans on UFOs. Has the
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editor of Florida Home and Garden who told the UFO congress about her
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abduction by aliens performed a public service? Is it high time for debate
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on UFOs as a vital issue of national security to enter the public arena?
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Perhaps...not.
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(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1991
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SOURCE: The Times DATE: 04 April 1991
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Professor brings the UFO down to earth;John Earnshaw
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UNIDENTIFIED flying objects are bunk, a physicist from the Queen's
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University Belfast told a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in
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Armagh last night.
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John Earnshaw said that 90 per cent of all UFO sightings could easily be
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explained. Some were astronomical objects such as the Moon, Venus, meteors,
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halos around the Sun and Moon, and mirages. Aircraft and weather balloons
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were also culprits.
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The other 10 per cent, he said, fell into three categories; hoaxes;
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things that people do not remember properly; and uncommon natural
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phenomena. There was no need to invent beings from outer space to explain
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any of them. Professor Earnshaw spoke as the latest reports of UFOs came
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from Maracaibo, Venezuela, where five glowing objects were sighted on
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Tuesday.
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If such objects were really extraterrestrials, Professor Earnshaw said,
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it was hard to imagine how they would reach Earth. The nearest planets that
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could harbour life lay far beyond the Sun.
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(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1991
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SOURCE: The Times DATE: 16 August 1991
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Extraterrestrial scoop comes down to earth
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Peter Davenport
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THE invitation could not have been clearer: ``Press cards to be shown and
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no one from the Sport newspapers will be allowed entrance to the press
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conference,'' it said.
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As an exercise in censorship, it was probably understandable. A
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publication that specialises in such exclusives as the sighting of a
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missing second world war bomber on the Moon is not the sort of journal to
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be welcomed warmly among a gathering of those who take the world of UFOs
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and visitations by alien creatures very seriously.
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On the other hand, the editor of Florida Home and Garden found herself
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the centre of attention at the press conference to launch the Sixth
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International UFO Congress, which is being held in the down-to-earth city
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of Sheffield this weekend.
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For once, Ms Kathryn Howard found herself on the other side of the
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notebook. Twenty-two years after an experience in which she claims to have
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been abducted by aliens and transported high above the Earth in a
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spacecraft, she had finally, she said, decided the time was right to go
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public with her story.
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Ms Howard, sometime singer and yoga teacher, said yesterday that her
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experience happened in 1969 near a small village in southern Sweden, where
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she was then living. She recalled being inside an object ``like a large
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beer barrel, itself inside a larger vessel'', restrained by her wrists and
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ankles and able to view the Earth through a circular window beneath her
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feet.
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Since then, she had seen what may have been alien figures, 10ft high
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silhouettes, three times. It had all left her with a greater feeling for
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the human race, she said, as well as the power to heal.
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But why is she presenting her story now? ``Well, I feel the timing is
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right, and I feel a trust in the people around me here, and I feel safe and
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secure in telling it.''
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Ms Howard is undoubtedly a coup for the organisers of the congress, which
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will have more than 260 international delegates and speakers, covering all
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aspects of ``Ufology'', from sightings of flying saucers and the creation
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of corn circles to alleged abductions and visitations by aliens.
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However, staging a conference on UFOs in the traditional news ``silly
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season'' of August may not be the wisest of moves. Readers of the Sport
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newspapers may well be denied coverage of the conference, but it remains to
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be seen how the readership of Florida Home and Garden receives its editor's
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``out of this world'' exclusive.
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(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1991
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