roper@chinet.UUCP (Bill Roper) (02/01/86)
From the Chicago Tribune, 1/31/86: Reports that the U.S. Coast Guard had been warned not to touch part of the shuttle's debris "confirm reports that have filtered into the press to the effect that the Challenger carried new secret explosives that were to have been tested in zero gravity," Tass quoted Gus Hall, head of the U.S. Communist Party, as saying. "There is no news in Isvestia, and no truth in Pravda." Scum. -- Bill Roper, ihnp4!chinet!roper
clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (02/03/86)
> > From the Chicago Tribune, 1/31/86: > > Reports that the U.S. Coast Guard had been warned not to touch part of > the shuttle's debris "confirm reports that have filtered into the press to > the effect that the Challenger carried new secret explosives that were to > have been tested in zero gravity," Tass quoted Gus Hall, head of the U.S. > Communist Party, as saying. > > "There is no news in Isvestia, and no truth in Pravda." > > Scum. Why don't you blast the idiots who started the rumour? How else are the Soviets supposed to respond to something stupid like that? In fact, some of the US media are saying the same thing! Besides: 1) The main Soviet reporting of the disaster was reported to be quite different. They reported the facts of the disaster, without once making their usual comments about the Shuttle Program being "primarily military". Further, they played some Glen Miller as a memorial - a great sign of respect used only rarely. (eg: King's and Kennedy's death, or the plane crash that killed the girl who wrote the letter to Gorbachev (sorry, I forget her name)) 2) The Soviets (according to a report my wife heard) are going to be naming two craters on Venus after the two women on Challenger. Not too bad, considering the current state of relations. -- Chris Lewis, UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!clewis BELL: (416)-475-8980 ext. 321