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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Liberty Lobby Lawsuit
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 23:12:39 EDT
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In article <1326@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:

>I just heard last night that the Liberty Lobby, a neo-fascist organization
>that purportedly put up a large sum of money to anyone who could prove
>the existence of the Holocaust (hoping that no one would come forward to
>stand up to such a boorish claim, thus "proving" their point that it never
>happened), got its just desserts.

>A judge ordered Liberty Lobby to pay a Holocaust survivor $90,000 as a
>fulfillment of their "outstanding challenge", and apparently they were 
>forced by the judge to publicly accept and acknowledge the fact that the
>Holocaust did occur.

>They hoped that we would all find the claim so disgusting that we would
>all ignore it.  Personally I'm glad someone chose not to.

>(Could someone elaborate on the sketchy details I acquired?)

That's pretty much the story I heard.

Charley Wingate