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From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith)
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Subject: NYTel Still On Strike and Vandalism
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Date: 30 Sep 89 01:33:07 GMT
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	Just in case you forgot that NYTel is still on strike and that
vandalism is still going on, I heard on the radio a couple of days ago
of another incident involving some underground cables being cut on
Long Island, depriving about 4000 customers of phone service.  NYTel
has raised their reward for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of vandals to $100,000.

	Then again, maybe it had nothing to do with the strike --
Metro North (Amtrack commuter service into Grand Central Terminal)
reports continuing problems with people stealing the copper cables
used for their low-voltage signal lines (there is a big black market
in stolen copper, be it stolen cables or copper plumbing stripped from
abandoned buildings).

Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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