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From: slepokuo@cadvision.com (Orest Slepokura)
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In article , ci882@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
(Rubin Friedman) wrote:

> What I wonder is why you enjoy all this so much?  Getting back at the
> arrogant JOOs?
> 

"Wonder" all you like, Rubin. I do some wondering myself sometimes. 

For example, I'm wondering why you refer to "the arrogant JOOs" [sic]. Is
this ["JOOs"] the Jewish analogue for the N-word? Why not use the proper
spelling? 
Or is it intended as a kind of satire? 

I'm also wondering where you get the notion that there's something to
"enjoy" in all this? 

The Jewish Thought Police [read: Rabbi Cooper and the Wiesenthal Center]
wants to control the paramaters of debate on matters pertaining to the
Holocaust. Of course, where Zundel and Holocaust revisionists are
concerned, Cooper and other Holocaust monopolists like Sabina Citron would
rather there not be any debate at all.

Apparently, Cooper and Citron don't seem to share McVay's confidence that
the revisionists can be openly challenged, debated, intellectually
disarmed, and sent packing. On the other hand, McVay is plainly eager to
go head to head with Zundel. A strong sign he feels confident that with
the aces he's holding that Zundel can be easily trumped! 
 
People who cherish their freedom are naturally alarmed by the spectre of
looming censorship. So they are fighting back. Which is why mirror sites
to the Zundelsite are being set up by libertarians all over the Net. This
is a spontaneous grassroots movement sired, however unintentionally, by
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles. More
than anyone, Rabbi Cooper is helping to turn Ernst Zundel into a
libertarian icon. This is what students of English literature call irony. 

Orest Slepokura  

> "Love work; despise power for power's sake; and don't get too close to the
> government" - Ethics of the Fathers

BTW, I like your quote. It's a good one. Impressive that so much wisdom
can be packaged in just 15 words...

OS


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In article , brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) wrote:

> This does not surprise me, I really can't understand the motives of
> the Wiesenthal Center here.
> 
> Actions like theirs, and that of DT, seek only to give great publicity
> to Zundel and his ilk.  They have probably brought more hits to his
> web site then he could ever have possibly gotten on his own.  They could
> hardly help Zundel more if they were working for him.
> 

___________________________________________

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has certainly helped to publicize Zundel's
website. Like many other Jewish organizations that have gone after Zundel,
it, too, has provided Zundel with millions of dollars' worth of free
publicity.

In Canada, because of a couple of thought-crimes trials held in the 1980s,
in which Zundel was charged under the antiquated "false news" law, he has
become a household name. His name is now routinely bannered in newspaper
headlines, for example. 

His name-recognition is very high; Zundel is known throughout the land as
the very personification of Holocaust revisionism.

As for the Zundelsite being busy--you're right. It's jammed tight
nowadays, sort of like Times Square on New Year's Eve.

I think we can safely predict that Jewish attempts to muzzle Zundel will
continue s always, and that Zundel himself will continue to reap a bumper
crop of free publicity.

Talk about some strange Karma, eh?

__________________________________________ 



 
> Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.        
info@clari.net
> The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,160,000 paid sbscrbrs.) 
http://www.clari.net/brad/


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From: slepokuo@cadvision.com (Orest Slepokura)
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The Deschênes Report tabled on December 30, 1986, contained the results of
the Commission of Inquiry on Nazi War Criminals in Canada. 

The commission owed its existence of a rumour started by Sol Littman,
Canadian representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, to
the effect that Dr. Joseph Mengele had once applied for a visa from Buenos
Aires to enter Canada. There was a also suggestion that Mengele may even
have set foot in Canada.

Contained in the report is a description of how the rumour was first
floated and its predictable impact.  This is it:

_____________________________ 

                The Deschênes Report [pp. 67-68]: The Mengele Affair

The opening paragraph of Minute-of-Council 1985-348 states:

WHEREAS concern has been expressed about the possibility that Joseph
Mengele, an alleged Nazi war criminal, may have entered or attempted to
enter Canada;

Two weeks before the passage of this Minute there had indeed been a public
outcry following the publication on 23 January 1985 of an article over the
signature of "Ralph Blumenthal, the _New York Times_." The article was
captioned: "Records indicate Mengele sought Canadian visa".  The third
paragraph read:

          Other records indicate that Mengele applied to the Canadian
          Embassy in Buenos Aires for a Canadian visa in 1962 under a
          pseudonym and that the Canadians informed American intelligence
          officials of the attempt. 

One month earlier Mr. Sol Littman, Canadian representative of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, had written to the Prime Minister of Canada a letter
where he unequivocally affirmed:

         The documents we received on Mengele, who has been the object
         of world-wide search since the close of WW II, produced two 
         shocking pieces of information.

         (...)

         2) Mengele, employing the alias of Dr. Joseph Menke, applied to
         the Canadian embassy in Buenos Aires for admission to Canada
         as a landed immigrant in late May or early June, 1962.

The relation between Littman's letter and Blumenthal's article is
established. In the course of an interview with Commission counsel in New
York, Blumenthal stated "that it was Mr. Sol Littman to whom he had been
directed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, who introduced the
element of an application by Mengele to come to Canada from Buenos Aires".

Littman confirmed: "I am reasonably sure that most of the information that
Mr. Blumenthal printed came directly from me."

In his testimony before the Commission in December 1985, Littman conceded
his paternity of the assertion of the facts concerning Mengele:

Q. [Gordon Whitehall]I see.  Let us just take a look for a moment, if we
may, at your letter of December the 29th, Exhibit 154. In that letter,
sir, you assert as a fact that Mengele, employing the alias of Dr. Josef
Menke, applied to the Canadian embassy in Buenos Aires for admission to
Canada as a landed immigrant.

Now I ask you, sir, whether or not--whether that assertion of fact, did it
come from the documents, did it come from the Immigration Officer or did
it come from Corporal Yetter?

A. [Sol Littman] The assertion of fact, Mr. Whitehall, is mine.

Q. [Gordon Whitehall] The assertion of fact is yours?

A. [Littman] Yes.

And to describe the basis of his assertion of facts, Littman could find no
better words than "speculation"; "impression"; "possibility"; and
"hypothesis".

[end of excerpt from The Deschênes Report]
____________________________________

On page 81 of the Deschênes Report it is further made clear that on the
basis of nothing more than "speculation,  impression, possibility, and
hypothesis,"  Littman offered a version of events for public consumption
as though it was factual and solidly documented.  

What is even more telltale is that Littman had been warned by one of his
sources that it would unwise to do so: "Littman was, therefore, put on
notice that, in view of the paucity of available information, it was
dangerous to make the assumptions with which he was playing."  He chose
instead to disregard the warning.

On page 82, the Deschenes Report comes to the following conclusion
regarding Littman, the Wiesenthal Center maven, and his inglorious role in
the Mengele Affair:

__________________________________

There is no documentary evidence whatsoever of an attempt by Dr. Joseph
Mengele to seek admission to Canada from Buenos Aires in 1962.

The affirmation has come from Mr. Sol Littman, and from him alone.

The documents which were then available to him related to a security
request from Canada, not an immigration check from Germany, and do not
bear out the theory of Mengele's visa application in Buenos Aires.

The advice which Litman solicited (whether it were from one or two people)
did not support his assumptions, but put him on notice about their
fragility.

As stated at the outset, all the Littman could rely on was "speculation,
impression, possibility, hypothesis".  Yet he chose to transmute them into
statements of fact which he publicized, with the results that are now
known.

This is a case where not a shred of evidence has been tendered to support
Mr. Littman's statement to the Prime Minister of Canada on 20 December
1984, or Mr. Ralph Blumenthal's article in the _New York Times_ on  23
January 1985.

Indeed Mr. Littman has stated before the Commission:

Well, let me put it this way.  We have accepted the fact that Mengele did
not come to Canada and, in all likelihood, never applied to come over to
Canada. We had no difficulty accepting that.

[end of excerpt from The Deschênes Report]

___________________________________

To paraphrase Littman, he likewise seemed to have "had no difficulty"
saying the opposite had been true.

Orest Slepokura


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From:         THE 1986 DESCHENES REPORT of the Commisssion of Inquiry 
                         into Nazi War Criminals in Canada 

                          CASE NO. 190 [pp. 391-392]
    

    This family's surname was brought to the attention of the Commission by
> > Mr. David Matas [Senior Counsel, Bnai B'rith Canada], whose source of
> > information was an anonymous letter claiming the family came from a
> > foreign country and deserved investigation because they were "recluses".
> > There was no specific allegation of involvement in war crimes made against
> > this family. Mr. Matas advised that this family was reportedly residing in
> > Canada.
> > 
> > The Commission requested the departments of Employment and Immigration,
> > the Secretary of State and External Affairs to conduct checks to ascertain
> > whether a person with a similar name had entered Canada or applied for
> > citizenship or a passport. The Commission also conducted CPIC and MVB
> > searches against the family's surname. All the above searches produced
> > negative responses.
> > 
> > After a thorugh investigation of the address submitted to the Commission
> > and of the family residing there, the Commission found no persons of an
> > age that could conceivably have participated in World War II war crimes.
> > The mother and father were born in 1942 and 1940 respectively, their
> > children obviously some time later, and both sets of grandparents reside
> > in a foreign country and have never entered Canada.
> > 
> > The Commission confirmed that the Berlin Document Center needed more
> > details to complete its name search.
> > 
> > On the basis of the foregoing, it is recommended that the file on the
> > subject be closed. 
> > 
> > [end of profile of Case No. 190]

_____________________

How the Deschenes Report came to be is telltale, to say the least.

In 1985, one Sol Littman, the Candian representative of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, made the claim the Dr. Josef Mengele had
once tried to apply for a visa for emigrate to Canada. 

That having been said, Littman went on to proclaim that his discovery
relative to Dr, Mengele's alleged intention to settle in Canada, which was
pure hogwash by the way, furthermore implied that "about 500" other Nazi
war criminals were actually within the country, whose "last-known address
and, in most cases descriptions of alleged crimes" were, Sol Littman
insisted, known to him [The Toronto Star, April 26, 1985].

A few days later, Littman put the number of alleged Nazi war criminals
living in Canada at four times 500. Littman: "...at least 2,000 of them
still live here" [The Windsor Star, April 30, 1985].

In fact, in the 10 years since the Deschenes Report was first published
[December 30, 1986], there has been, as I said earlier, only one
individual, a Dutch collaborator, who was deported from Canada back to
Holland. No one has ever been convicted of war crimes since then. The
proverbial labouring mountain that was the Deschenes Commission gave birth
to a mouse.

Other than a Jacob Luitjens, no one, as I said, has been convicted of war
crimes under Canada's new war crimes law, which has been on the books
since the fall of 1987. Here in Canada, as in England, the hunt for
alleged Nazi war criminals turned out to have been much ado about nothing.
Or rather, a PR exercise for the Holocaust lobby; at taxpayers' expense,
of course!

However, the media, as you'll appreciate, hyped the story about Mengele
trying to possibly get into Canada. Especially Ralph Blumenthal in an
article in The New York Times which kicked-started the 8-month-long
Mengele hysteria.

Whereupon, understandably alarmed by news of "the possibility that ...
Mengele, an alleged Nazi war criminal, may have entered or attempted to
enter Canada," and by Littman's "concern that other persons responsible
for wae crimes...are currently resident in Canada," Justice Minister, John
Crosbie, obediently announced the formation of the Commission of Inquiry
on [Nazi] War Criminals to be presided over by Justice Jules Deschenes.
And that's how the Deschenes Commission came to be.

Then, eight months after the establishment of the Commission, before the
500 or 2,000 war criminals "known" to Littman had been summoned to
testify, Littman was asked to produce the evidence upon which he based his
allegation that Mengele had made an abortive attempt to enter Canada 23
years earlier. It turns out that Littman's "evidence" was nothing more
than wild speculation.

See: there'd been a visa application made in 1962 by a West German citizen
named Joseph Menke [actually the man's real name happened to be George
Menk] to emigrate to Canada. Littman said he "got the impression" from the
document that it was about an immigration application from Mengele [The
Toronto Globe and Mail, December 5, 1985]. 

In the words of the Deschenes Report [p. 69]: "Like a pyramid standing
unsteadily on its apex, the whole story developed out of a tip given to
the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in January 1962 by an informant whose
identity, concealed at the time, appears to have been lost. According to
this informant, one Menke, living in Southern Ontario, was no other than
Dr. Josef Mengele."

Littman took these flimsy beginnings and weaved and hyped his bogus tale.
The news media, on the scent of what appeared at first blush to be a
sensational story, and a docile, compliant Canadian government, pandering
to the extremely influential Jewish lobby, did the rest.

Result: a stupid waste of taxpayers' money; an exercise in futility; not
to mention plenty of bad feelings between Jews and different ethnic
communities. Note that the entire process was kicked-started--in the words
of the Deschenes Report--by "an anonymous letter."  

Franz Kafka would have felt at home in Canada.
 
Orest Slepokura


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                The Deschênes Report: Numerological Fantasies

The Commission of Inquiry into Nazi War Criminals in Canada headed by
Justice Jules Deschênes investigated over 800 individuals during the life
of the Commission in the mid-1980s. The results of these investigations
are contained in a study now know simply as the Deschênes Report. The
966-page report was released on December 30, 1986.

The inquiry into Nazi war criminals was kicked-started by two allegations,
both demonstrably false, made by Sol Littman, Canadian representative of
the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles. 

One of Littman's allegations had it that from Buenos Aires in 1962 Dr.
Josef Mengele had applied for a visa  to emigrate to Canada; it was also
suggested that Dr. Mengele may even have set foot in Canada.

Littman's second allegation was that between 2,000 and 3,000 Nazi war
criminals were living in Canada; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal himself
claimed there 6000 Nazi war criminals in Canada. In the decade since, only
one man, a Nazi collaborator, has been deported to Holland from Canada. No
Canadian, since the report was published, has been successfully prosecuted
as a Nazi war criminal. 

In the chapter titled "War Criminals in Canada?" the Commission examined
the many allegations that had been made over a period of 15 years (1971 to
1986) about the precise number of Nazi war criminals that might be found
living out the rest of their lives on Canadian territory. 

Nothing better illustrates the old saw about "lies" and  "damned lies"
being confounded with "statistics" than a careful reading of the study the
Deschênes Report made of this question. 

Here is a verbatim rendering of the relevant pages [pp.245-249] from the
Deschênes Report.
_____________________________
                              WAR CRIMINALS IN CANADA?

1) _Their alleged number_

Over the years various sources, more or less closely related to the matter
at hand, have thrown out for public consumption figures allegedly
representing the number of war criminals who had found refuge in Canada.
The high level reached by some of those figures, together with the wide
discrepancy between them, contributed to create both revulsion and
interrogation. The sensational allegations concerning Dr. Mengele's
connection with Canada were the straw that broke the camel's back: the
matter had to be clarified once and for all.

This Commission of Inquiry was entrusted with the task, which it was
required to perform within a mercilessly short time frame.

                             ____________________

The Commission has made an inventory of the statements published in recent
years on the number of war criminals in Canada; this has at once shown how
ambiguous those figures can be. One example will suffice to illustrate
this point.

Both in his brief before the Commission and in his report to the Solicitor
General, Mr. Sol Littman has ventured the figure 3,000. However, care must
be taken in reading the text where that figure appears. In both documents,
Mr. Littman does not refer simply--and clearly--to war criminals: he
speaks of "war criminals and war-time collaborators". Now, there is more
than a slight difference between the two categories: war criminals were
collaborators, but surely not all collaborators qualify as war criminals.
So a figure which pretends to mix both classes of unsavory characters into
a single total may be quite misleading when one thinks of war criminals as
such. Yet no distinction has been made by Mr. Littman, and the Commission
entertains no doubt that his figure of 3,000 applies, in the public mind,
to war criminals and war criminals alone. This is the unfortunate result
of loose language and somewhat careless public statements.

Now the Commission does not pretend to have carried out an exhaustive
review of the figures quoted from time to time as to war criminals in
Canada. Nevertheless, a schedule of the relevant statements which it has
collected, should help put the problem in focus.

The Commission has compiled 31 statements uttered from 1971 through 1986:
by coincidence the earliest and the latest ones come from the same source,
Mr. Simon Wiesenthal. The Commission has arranged two different
presentations: the first one by order of dates, the second one by
increasing numbers of alleged suspects.
                             _________________________

_Ist Schedule_

_Statements in chronological order_

                                                 _Alleged number of war
                                                 criminals living in Canada_

1971, 19 May    Simon Wiesenthal      Toronto Star     Several hundred
1975, 26 Dec.   Unidentified groups   Montreal Gazette   Over 50
1976, 1 Dec.    Michael Hanusiak      Toronto Star      At least 50
1977, 11 Nov.   Ian Adams             Weekend magazine    800
1979, 6 March   Robert Kaplan         House of Commons   Over one dozen
1979, 6 March   Maurice Dupras        House of Commons     Some 15
1979, 25 March  Olivia Ward           Toronto Star       Over 1,000
1980, 28 April  Meir Halevi           Globe and Mail     200
1981, January   Interdepartmental     Report to          50-100
                Committee             Government
1981, 24 Feb.   Sabina Citron         Globe and Mail     1,000
1981, 29 May    Abraham Cooper        Regina Leader-Post 1,000
1981, 13 July   Irwin Cotler          Ottawa Citizen      At least 100
1981, 15 Sept.  Adalbert Rueckerl     Vancouver Sun       500-1,000
1982, 18 June   David Matas           Toronto Star        50-60
1982, 12 Oct.   Charles Kremer        Windsor Star        Over 2,000
1982, 6 Nov.    Dept. of Justice      Toronto Star        Handful
1982, 6 Nov.    RCMP                  Toronto Star        80-100
1982, 6 Nov.    Irwin Cotler          Toronto Star        75-100
1983, 13 April  Robert Kaplan         Toronto Sun         Over 100
1983, 13 April  Irwin Cotler          La Presse           Maybe 1,000
1983, 5 July   Jewish Defence League  Globe and Mail      Maybe 1,000
1983, 21 July    Adalbert Ruerckerl   Globe and Mail      1,000
1983, 21 Nov. Solicitor General Dept. Globe and Mail      100
1983, 21 Nov.    Edward Grenspan      Globe and Mail      2,000
1984, 24 Jan.    Sol Littman          London Free Press   2,000
1984, 8 Nov.     Sol Littman          Toronto Star        3,000
1985, 16 Jan.    Simon Adler          London Free Press   1,000
1985, 25 Jan.    Sol Littman          Toronto Star        3,000
1985, 7 Feb.     John C. Crosbie      House of Commons    Relatively few
1985, 23 Aug.    Sol Littman          Report to Solicitor 2,000-3,000
                                           General
1986,16 May      Simon Wiesenthal     New York Daily News  6,000

The above schedule shows that the issue of war criminals really came into
the limelight in Canada in the early 1980s and that, since the beginning
of 1983, the figures quoted by outside intervenors never fell below 1,000.

                             ______________________

_2nd Schedule_

_Statements in increasing order of figures_

                                                     _Alleged number of war
                                                criminals living in Canada_

1982, 6 Nov.   Dept of Justice     Toronto Star        Handful
1985, 7 Feb.   John C. Crosbie     House of Commons    Relatively few
1979, 6 March  Robert Kaplan       House of Commons    Over one dozen
1979, 6 March  Maurice Dupras      House of Commons    Some 15
1976, 1 Dec.   Michael Hanusiak    Toronto Star        At least 50
1975, 26 Dec.  Unidentified groups Montreal Gazette   Over 50
1982, 18 June  David Matas         Toronto Star       50-60
1981, January  Interdepartmental   Report to government 50-100
                  Commitee
1982, 6 Nov.   Irwin Cotler        Toronto Star         75-100
1982, 6 Nov.   RCMP                Toronto Star         80-100
1983, 21 Nov.  Solicitor General   Globe and Mail       100
                  Department
1981, 13 July   Irwin Coltler       Ottawa Citizen       At least 100
1983, 14 March  Robert Kaplan       Toronto Sun          Over 100
1980, 28 April  Meir Halevi         Globe and Mail       200
1971, 19 May    Simon Wiesenthal    Toronto Star         Several hundred
1977, 11 Nov.   Ian Adams           Weekend Magazine     800
1981, 15 Sept.  Adalbert Rueckerl   Vancouver Sun        500-1,000
1983, 13 April  Irwin Cotler        La Presse            Maybe 1,000
1983, 5 July  Jewish Defence League Globe and Mail       Maybe 1,000
1981, 24 Feb.   Sabina Citron       Globe and Mail       1,000
1981, 29 May    Abraham Cooper      Regina Leader-Post   1,000
1983, 21 July   Adalbert Rueckerl   Globe and Mail       1,000
1985, 16 Jan.   Simon Adler         London Free Press    1,000
1979, 25 March  Olivia Ward         Toronto Star         Over 1,000
1983, 21 Nov.   Edward Greenspan    Globe and Mail       2,000
1984, 24 Jan.   Sol Littman         London Free Press    2,000
1982, 12 Oct.   Charles Kremer      Windsor Star         Over 2,000
1985, 23 Aug.   Sol Liitman    Report to Solicitor General  2-3,000
1984, 8 Nov.    Sol Littman         Toronto Star          3,000
1985, 25 Jan.   Sol Littman         Toronto Star          3,000
1986, 16 May    Simon Wiesenthal    New York Daily News   6,000

Here one sees the dramatic increase in the figures which, in most if not
all cases, are only estimates and, more probably, guesses. They fall into
two broad categories: 100 and below, 1,000 and over. For the moment, the
Commission will not pass judgment on those figures, other than to note
that the discrepancies between them are blatant; and so must be their
various degrees of reliability.

There the matter rested when this Commission was set up.

The story has been told earlier of the collection of the names of suspects
>from  various sources and the compilation of the Commission's Master List
which reached a total of 774 names. This total falls far below the higher
figures asserted publiclu from time to time over the years; it shows
crudely no less than a 400 per cent exaggeration by the proponents of
those figures, even leaving aside Wiesenthal's latest statement of 6,000.
Yet a detailed examination of each of those cases was bound to bring about
a further dramatic decrease in the number of real war criminals; for many
of them, the allegations on the surface could not bear scrutiny. A single
example: the denunciation as war criminals of a couple bearing a German
name, living in a secluded place under the protection of two black dogs
and offering old European furniture for sale (cases 179 and 180).

The Commission accordingly _FINDS_ that:

54- Between 1971 and 1986, public statements by outside interveners
concerning alleged war criminals residing in Canada have spread
increasingly large and grossly exaggerated figures as to their estimated
number.

55- Even leaving aside the figure of 6,000 ventured in 1986 by Mr. Simon
Wiesenthal, and before a detailed examination of each of the cases
appearing on the Commission's Master List, this list already shows no less
than a 400 per cent over-estimate by the proponents of those figures.

[end of exerpt]

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Unable to secure a single conviction in the ten years that have elapsed
since the Deschênes Report was released, the Government of Canada is now
seeking to deport a small handful of suspected Nazi war criminals, using
the American OSI approach. 

The suspects, now elderly men in their late 70s and early 80s, are
insisting, however, that they be tried as a few other unsuccessful cases
before them were; namely, under the 1987 made-in-Canada war-crimes-law.
They want due process.

But all Canadian authorities are after is giving them the heave-ho. It's
their way of saying that the 10-year-long hunt for Nazi war criminals in
Canada has not been a total farce, a complete fiasco. 

Ideally, the Government of Canada would at like to show that its labouring
Nazi-hunting mountain at least gave birth to a mouse.

Orest Slepokura

-- 

What sort of truth is it that needs protection?  - Auberon Waugh

The London Daily Telegraph, May 9, 1992

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