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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Olympic flame?
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 03:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  6 03:04:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs    May  5 23:04:00 1984

For the  purpose of review  I'll  quote part of an AP  article  from our
local paper...

> NEW YORK (AP) - The Olympic  flame will pass  through  the hands of more
> than  4000  torchbearers  after  it  leaves  New  York on  Tuesday  on a
> 9000-mile odyssey through 33 states to the games in Los Angeles.
> 
> "The route will take the flame through every possible environment in the
> United  States,"  said ____ _____, the ____  director.  "It will go over
> mountains,  through  deserts, across rivers, along oceans and through 41
> of the nation's largest cities.  It will also go to more than 1000 small
> communities."

I think the author's facts are suspect.  Surely  net.flame  goes to more
than 41 major  cities and 1000 small ones.  There must be more than 4000
people reading it,  considering  that 4001 post to it.  And what is this
"Olympic"  stuff?  I haven't seen any flames about the Olympics here yet
(did I miss an article recently posted in New York?).  Finally, as every
net.usenix readers know, the next games are in Salt Lake City, not LA.

		:-)OO
		  OO

-- from the confused and ink-smudged fingertips of
   Alan Silverstein, official net.reader of the 
   `date +%y | numtoroman` Olympic follies