Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More About NJ Sabotage Message-ID:Date: 11 Aug 89 12:28:25 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Rutgers - The Police State of New Jersey Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 290, message 13 of 13 In article bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: > I didn't say the union was not culpable, I just said I don't know that > they are. > How do you even know there was *any* sabotage? Because some phone > service got disrupted and the phone co blamed it on the strikers? > Maybe, maybe not. > -Barry Shein Well, I do know that there was *some* sabotage. A fiber cable was cut, with a hatchet, with the result that among other things, Rutgers was knocked off Internet for two days. I don't think that NJ Bell would use a hatchet - knowing that they'd have to fix it - if they wanted to make the unions look bad. Mark Smith | "Be careful when looking into the distance, |All Rights 61 Tenafly Road|that you do not miss what is right under your nose."| Reserved Tenafly,NJ 07670-2643|rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith,msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise.