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From: sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ken  Sheppardson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.173736.4110@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 17:37:36 GMT
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>I can't back it up, but it just sounds wrong.  Everything you'd expect to
>hear is in there.  The whole thing smacks of the kind of conspiracy you'd
>expect in tabloids like the Weekly World News.  

  For those of you who aren't familiar with this fine publication, here are
  a few of the headlines from the issue in question:

    "Chilling account of doomed astronauts' final minutes...Never before
     published!...LAST WORDS OF CHALLENGER CREW!...At last! The secret tape
     NASA doesn't want you to hear" -- Front Cover

    "Saddam's toilet booby-trapped: PO'd plumbers rig Iraqi palace potty to
     blow up when he sits down" -- Inside front cover

    "PRO WRESTLER TALKED BUSH INTO SENDING TROOPS TO SAUDI ARABIA!...Is Ric
     Flair running the White House ?...'Kick Saddam Hussein's butt,' Nature
     Boy tells President" -- pg. 1

    "I went to bed with Saddam...XXX-rated starlet woos Iraqi for peace--
     but romance turns sour...'He's covered with hair!'"

    "I had a baby thanks to VOODOO!"

    "Space aliens want our wiskey, water, and women!"

    "Dying man's bizarre last request -- car parts catalog !"

  ...I think you get the picture. I'll stick to AW&ST, thanks.

   
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