Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: A Hart Attack
Message-ID: <2149@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 06:26:46 GMT
Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu
Organization: TELECOM Digest
Lines: 16
Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 572, message 2 of 8

Former Senator Gary Hart is stringing telephone wire across the Soviet
Union.  Hart, who is a close personal pal of Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev, is trying to bring the Soviet telephone system into the
fast approaching twenty-first century.

In conjuction with *US WEST*, he is working on setting up fiber optic
lines across the Soviet Union, and international phone lines from
Hamburg to Tokyo.

"Hart and Gorbachev signed a letter of agreement for the phone system
a few days ago," said my source for this news. "And if Hart isn't
getting a nice commission on this deal, he's nuts!."

Da!

Patrick Townson