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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan's joke
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 16:05:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 16:05:09 1984
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	The San Franciscio Chronicle today (oct. 3, 1984) 
had an article titled "A Scary Footnote To Reagan's Joke About Russia".

	Tokyo

	    One afternoon in August, according to well in-
	formed sources here, the Soviet Far Eastern 
	headquarters suddenly dispached a message that
	said: "We now embark on military action against
	the U.S. forces.:

The message was canceled 30 minutes later, the longest time a message
of this sort had gone uncancled.  It was apparently in retaliation
for Reagan's joke.