NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 30 Jan 1996 - Special issue
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Topics in this special issue:
1. WWW> World News-DAILY
2. WWW> Direct Marketing--DAILY
3. K12> Challenger Updates
4. K12> February Bulletin board - Black History
5. WWW> Internet History
6. WWW> IRS-TeleFile
7. K12> Sutton-on-Sea County Primary School Web Site
8. WWW> Tennis Server Web Site Brings Home the "Awesker"
9. K12> 9-12 Introduction to Timber
10. WWW> Clemson Football
11. WWW> Committee of 300
12. WWW> Build-A-Card
13. WWW> Right is Right!
14. LISTS> E-Bloid
15. K12> Bearman's Site! - 6 year old creation
16. WWW> Lions Club in Oslo, Norway
17. WWW> NEWS -Audio- Radio Slovenia News
18. K12> SIDCOT SCHOOL - UK
19. K12> Black History Websites
20. WWW> ExNet Icons
21. WWW> Maryland House Republican Caucus
22. WWW> Site-tation
23. WWW> Las Vegas Metropolitian Police Department
24. WWW> Russian News
25. WWW> CNN/Time AllPolitics
26. MISC> White House Summaries
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:57:27 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> World News-DAILY
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:37:03 -0400
From: "Liz W. Tompkins" <l...@kersur.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: INDEX> World News-DAILY
Item: World News Index
Url: http://toad.stack.urc.tue.nl/~haroldkl/index.html
Contains links to daily news providers on the internet,
spanning the entire globe, in a uniquely clickable
worldwide map.
Submitted by: Liz Tompkins (l...@kersur.net)
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:57:31 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Direct Marketing--DAILY
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:42:21 -0400
From: "Liz W. Tompkins" <l...@kersur.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: NEWS> Direct Marketing--DAILY
Item: Direct Marketing News
Url: http://www.dmnews.com/
Daily update of what's new in direct marketing.
Includes Lists/Dbases, Web Digest for Marketers,
Telemarketing, Online Marketing, Hi-Tech Marketing
& much more.
Submitted by: Liz Tompkins (l...@kersur.net)
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:00:52 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> Challenger Updates
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:37:41 -0400
From: sklo...@vanatech.com (Susan Klopfer)
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: Challenger Updates
For info on the Challenger disaster, visit The Challenger
Accident Home Page by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/spp/51L.html
Students in Bloomfield, Mo., have organized a memorial to the crew on their
Web page
http://bloomfield.k12.mo.us
For personal comments by the late physicist Richard Feynman who was
commissioned to investigate the accident
http://www.astro.nwu.edu:80/lentz/space/feynman-report.html
Submitted by Susan Klopfer
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:00:57 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> February Bulletin board - Black History
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:28:05 -0500
From: Peter Milbury <pmil...@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>
Subject: Re: GEN: February Bulletin board
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_...@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
February is National Black History Month.
If you would like to see what the Internet has to offer, check out the
Chico High School Helpful Bookmarks Page.
http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/libr/webres/helpful.html
We have assembled a number of effective resources to celebrate online.
Peter Milbury, Librarian pmil...@ericir.syr.edu
<A HREF="http://wombat.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~pmilbury/lib.html">
Peter Milbury's School Library & School Librarian Web Pages</A>
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Chico High School, Chico, California 95926 Voice: 916-891-3036
Co-owner of LM_NET: "gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/11/Listservs/LM_NET"
Serving 5,000+ In the School Library Media Community, Worldwide
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:01 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Internet History
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:03:29 -0600
From: Michele Missner <miss...@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Re: your mail
To: Multiple recipients of list BESTWEB <BES...@TREARNPC.EGE.EDU.TR>
To find up to date information about the Internet, try:
http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html. There is
a complete history put up by the Internet Society and present
statistics. Michele
Michele Missner
Appleton High School West
610 N. Badger
Appleton, wi 54914
voice (414) 832-4162 (business)
730-0768 (home)
fax (414) 832-6239
Bitnet - missnerm@oshkoshw
Internet - miss...@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:08 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> IRS-TeleFile
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:47:13 -0400
From: "Liz W. Tompkins" <l...@kersur.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: web SOURCE> IRS-TeleFile
Item: IRS - TeleFile
Url: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/basic/elec_svs/telefile.html
At this site, the IRS explains all the details on how to
file your tax form via the telephone this year. Also
includes:
Tax Stats | Tax Info For You | Tax Info For Business
Electronic Services| Taxpayer Help & Ed | Tax Regs In English
IRS Newsstand | Forms & Pubs | What's Hot | Meet The Commissioner
Comments & Help | Site Tree
Submitted by: Liz Tompkins (l...@kersur.net)
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:04 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> Sutton-on-Sea County Primary School Web Site
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:43:34 +0000
From: Chris Flanagan <seag...@enterprise.net>
Subject: Sutton-on-Sea County Primary School Web Site
Courtesy of Enterprise PLC, we now have a presence on the Web:
http://homepages.enterprise.net/seagulls
The site is still embryonic at the moment, but at least we've made a
start! We hope it will develop into something which you will find both
informative and fun. Please let us know your opinion (we won't be
offended by honesty - we want to learn!)
Thanks
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Chris Flanagan,Headteacher | Tel & Fax: 01507 441319
Sutton-on-Sea CP School | Email: seag...@enterprise.net
Station Road, Sutton-on-Sea, Lincs | http://homepages.enterprise.net/seagulls
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:12 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Tennis Server Web Site Brings Home the "Awesker"
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:53:15 -0600
From: rh...@tenagra.com (richard hoy)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Cliff Kurtzman, The Tenagra Corporation
phone: 713.480.6300, e-mail: cliff.k...@tenagra.com
Richard Hoy, The Tenagra Corporation
phone: 713.480.6300, e-mail: rh...@tenagra.com
Tennis Server Web Site Brings Home the "Awesker"
Voted Awesome Sports Site of the Year by Internet Population
(HOUSTON, TX - January 29, 1996) -- The Tennis Server - a world-wide web
site devoted to the game of tennis - received the "Awesker" Friday for
Awesome Sports Site of 1996.
The "Awesker" award is based on the number of votes cast by visitors to
Awesome Sports (http://www.awesomesports.com) - a site for showcasing
sports-related world-wide web sites.
The Tennis Server is located on the World-Wide Web at
http://www.tennisserver.com
The Tennis Server received 49 percent of the vote among the seven sports
sites eligible for this year's award. The other nominees for "Awesome
Sports Site of the Year" were:
AudioNet -- http://www.audionet.com
FASTBALL! -- http://www.fastball.com
iGOLf -- http://www.igolf.com
Interactive Internet Sports -- http://grove.ufl.edu/~mattk/iis
Maui Windsurfing Report -- http://maui.net/~mauiwind/MWR/mwr.html
John Skilton's Baseball Links -- http://ssnet.com/~skilton/baseball.html
Awesome Sports allows visitors to rate a new sports site every week. The
highest rated site in a month is granted the title "Awesome Sports Site of
Month" and automatically nominated for the "Awesome Sports Site of the
Year" competition.
The Tennis Server was selected "Awesome Sports Site of the Month" in August
of 1995.
Interestingly, "big name" sites such as ESPN SportsZone, the NBA Official
Site, Sports Illustrated and the NFL Official Site, were featured in the
weekly showcase, but none received ratings high enough to win the monthly
competitions.
The Tennis Server is a publication of The Tenagra Corporation
(http://arganet.tenagra.com/).
First launched in August of 1994, the Tennis Server now greets 3,000
visitors each day, encouraging them to "GO TO THE 'NET for Tennis
Information and Equipment." With visitors logged from 89 countries, total
Tennis Server file accesses number over 4.3 million. Tennis Server
INTERACTIVE, the site's free e-mail newsletter, reaches more than 8,800
tennis enthusiasts on a monthly basis.
Some of the site's features include regular tournament and tennis news
updates as well as exclusive columns by "Tennis Magazine" senior writer
David Higdon, sports psychologist John F. Murray, and USPTA Pro John Mills.
"Awesome Sport Site of the Year" is sponsored by The Multimedia Marketing
Group (http://www.mmgco.com/) in Portland, Oregon [Contact John Audette,
503-635-7506]. The Group specializes in providing consulting services to
companies interested in using technology to increase the effectiveness of
their marketing and communications.
Founded in 1993, The Tenagra Corporation (http://arganet.tenagra.com/) is a
Houston, Texas company providing Internet marketing, public relations,
consulting and web site development services.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:17 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> 9-12 Introduction to Timber
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:06:39 -0800
From: Ajit Manku <ama...@minet.gov.mb.ca>
Project Title: Introduction to Timber
Date: Start date: Feb 14, 1996 End date March 22, 1996
Purpose:
The purpose of the project is to exchange information on types of lumber and
its origin.
Subject: Woodworking
Grade: 9 -12
Summary:
By via email the students will communicate with students around the world to
obtain information about where the various species of timber are grown.
Number of participants: 15 students
Project Coordinator: Ajit Manku
Winnipegosis Elementary School
P.O. Box 120
Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada
Tele: 204 656 4550
email: ama...@minet.gov.mb.ca
How to register: Please email at: ama...@minet.gov.mb.ca and send the
following information.
Your full name:
Your email address:
Your School:
Your school division/district:
School address:
school voice phone:
Grade(s) taught:
Subject(s):
Time-line: Project will begin on February 14, 1996 and will finish on March
22, 1996.
Complete project outline:
The student will communicate with students around the world via email to
obtain answers to questions like:
1. What kind of climate in the country?
2. What types of forest are grown?
3. How the raw timber is transferred to processing area (mills)?
4. What are the classification of trees?
5. What are the characteristics of trees like hardwood or softwood, colour,
handtool working, nailability, finishes, etc)?
6. What kind of products are made from wood like plywood, veneer, fuelwood,
sawdust, furniture?
Schools that participate in the project will receive a compilation on
information received and put on our home page
http://parkland.assiniboinec.mb.ca/~duckmtn
Ajit Manku
Industrial Arts Teacher/Assisist Computer Coordinator
Winnipegosis Elementary School
P.O. Box 120
Winnipegosis, Manitoba
Canada R0L 2G0
Tel:(voice) 204 656 4550
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:22 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Clemson Football
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:07:45 -0600
From: bsc...@hubcap.clemson.edu
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~tcrumpt/index.html
THE best College Football site on the web. It has trivia, discussion,
surveys and more. News about Tiger Football is updated daily. Java applets
add even more to this excellent page which is constantly changing.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:26 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Committee of 300
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:23:51 -0600
From: m...@maxonline.com
The Committee of 300 is the all-volunteer support group for the Toyota Grand
Prix of Long Beach. Site features the contestants and online voting for Miss
Toyota Grand Prix.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:29 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Build-A-Card
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:27:58 -0600
From: m...@maxonline.com
Does your significant other berate you for spending too much time online?
Make amends by creating a web Valentine's Day card for him or her.
Build-A-Card lets you create a customized card and send its URL via e-mail
to your recipient. It's a free service of Maximized Online. Remember, Feb.
14 is Valentine's Day.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:32 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Right is Right!
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:28:29 -0600
From: cf...@usa.pipeline.com
http://www.angelfire.com/free/right.html
Republican politics. Conservative, right wing politics. For 40 years,
Republicans were maligned and misquoted. Don't be misled about what it
means to be a Republican. I am a Republican because I believe...
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:36 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: LISTS> E-Bloid
From: jeff...@comnet2.ksc.net.th (Jeffrey Baumgartner)
Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:42:58 GMT
CyberStar is a sensational new E-Bloid of virtual truth and near news from
around the world. Subscribe by sending e-mail to majo...@databack.com
and include "subscribe cyberstar" in the message.
Jeffrey Baumgartner jeff...@ksc.net.th
JPB Creative Co, Ltd http://www.databack.com/~jpb
Fax: +66 2 319 7708 ---------------------------------
Tel: +66 2 319 9502 Creative Marketing Communications
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:01:39 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> Bearman's Site! - 6 year old creation
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:36:17 -0600
From: skim...@aol.com
This is a REALLY great homepage created by a 6 year old! Check it out!
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:30:52 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Lions Club in Oslo, Norway
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:06:05
To: mid
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Lions Club in Oslo, Norway
Approved: psia
Received: from plains.nodak.edu
*** From Net-Happenings Moderator ***
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:11:21 -0600
From: lilj...@telepost.no
http://home.sol.no/liljedal/lion1.htm
These are the WEB pages of Lions Club Oslo Frogner in Norway. We are proud
to be the first Norwegian Lions Club on the Internet.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:30:55 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> NEWS -Audio- Radio Slovenia News
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:45:13 -0400
From: James Porteous <ah...@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: web NEWS -Audio- Radio Slovenia News
Item: Radio Slovenia News (In Slovene) -
Mpeg2 audio compressed version
Notes:
Radio Slovenia News
News Broadcast of Radio Slovenia, daily updated (about 30 minutes sound
- approx 7 Mb).
If you are in the USA, please use the CMU mirror of this document at
http://gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu/radio/, pointing to the local copy of the
audio file.
Since the encoding is not done in real time at the moment, the audio
file is made available about 45 minutes after the finished broadcast and
the American mirror is updated from 10 to 30 minutes after
that.
James.
____________________________________________________________________________
James Porteous ah...@torfree.net Toronto Ontario Canada
http://www.io.org/~jamesp/
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:31:00 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> SIDCOT SCHOOL - UK
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 13:01:57 -0600
From: r...@dial.pipex.com
http://www.darch.co.uk/schools/s/sidcot/index.html
Independent UK Boarding School- Sidcot School. 410 pupil co-educational
school situated in North Somerset with%09extensive special facilities
including International Centre providing language support for non-native
speakers.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:31:03 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: K12> Black History Websites
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 14:52:31 EST
From: KIDSPHERE Mailing List <kids...@vms.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:20:12 -0600
From: tam...@interaccess.com (Greg Freedman)
Subject: Black History Websites
I have put together a page with relevent links to African American culture
and history. Check it out at
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~tamsgaf/aapage.htm
Feel free to peruse the rest of my home page it is filled with many
education related goodies.
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Greg A. Freedman *** Teachers Academy for Math and Science in Chicago ***
tam...@interaccess.com *** http://homepage.interaccess.com/~tamsgaf/ ***
"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom....
Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the
threads of the net which we throw around ourselves." Swami
Vivekananda
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:31:07 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> ExNet Icons
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:47:58 -0600
From: in...@exnet.com
http://www2.exnet.com/img/free/index.html
ExNet has made available a page of downloadable icons for free personal and
commercial use. These icons are related to ExNet's On-line magazines on
computing, law, science and technology, science fiction, sport and the
unexplained.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:31:11 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Maryland House Republican Caucus
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 19:17:36 -0600
From: ars...@clark.net
A service of the Maryland House Republican Caucus to keep its constituents
informed.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:43:07 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Site-tation
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:20:02 -0600
From: lt...@attmail.com
http://www.abanet.org/lawlink/site-tation.html
A legal oriented site or mailing list of the week. Site-tation is
sponsored by the Legal Technology Resource Center of the American Bar
Association.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:43:02 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Las Vegas Metropolitian Police Department
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:09:18 -0600
From: webm...@co.clark.nv.us
http://www.co.clark.nv.us/ccnv/metro/police.htm
Las Vegas Metropolitian Police Department's own web page. Learn about
Crime prevention, Secret Witness, Metro's staff, and local Heroes.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:43:15 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> Russian News
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:51:53 -0400
From: sklo...@vanatech.com (Susan Klopfer)
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: Russian news
List of Russian newspapers and magazines on the Internet. Latest news and
highlights.
http://www.hibo.no/stud/sh4/media.html
Submitted by Susan Klofper
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:43:20 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: WWW> CNN/Time AllPolitics
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:11:35 -0400
From: Mario Profaca <mpro...@public.srce.hr>
To: Multiple recipients of list <inet...@nstn.ca>
Subject: WWW> CNN/Time AllPolitics
Item: CNN/Time AllPolitics web site
Cable News Network, Inc. and Time Inc. New Media launched
today full-service CNN/Time AllPolitics web site dedicated to
politics in the digital age.
"Candidates. Computers. Campaigns. That's AllPolitics"...
Contents:
Best Bytes, Top Story, Results Of The Virtual Primary, Can Clinton Win?
E-mail From The Trail, Can't Pick A GOP Horse? We'll Find One For You
Reinventing America
It's Not Only A Game, Back In TIME, Welcome to AllPolitics
Don't forget to vote in the Virtual Primary, Visit Other Sites:
Home Page, News, Issues, Campaignland, Candidates, Intelligence
In Focus, Pulse, Contents
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:43:11 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <sac...@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: MISC> White House Summaries
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:48:14 GMT
Subject: WH-SUMMARY> White Summaries for January 25, 1996
To: Multiple recipients of the list <wh-su...@reeusda.gov>
From: USDA/CSREES MajorDomo Administrator <majordo...@reeusda.gov>
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