(13)    Wed 15 Oct 97 15:28
By: Kurt Foster
To: All
Re: Cassini launched; Earth doomed!
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                CASSINI LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL, ACTIVISTS TO SUE

  Anti-nuclear activists today announced that they would be filing suit in
Federal court, in the wake of the launch "without a hitch" of the Cassini space
probe.

  "The announcement of the successful launch is an attempt to discredit our
movement, and is therefore libellous", a spokesman said.  "It's part of a
conspiracy designed to conceal the true hazards of nuclear radiation."

  The activists are also calling for Congressional hearings to investigate
whether the launch really was as successful as the announcement said.  The
spokesman pointed out that, since the anti-nuclear protesters had all fled the
area prior to the launch, "we only have NASA's word that the rocket didn't
actually explode, and they have an obvious interest in saying they were
successful no matter what.  For all we know, they could at this very moment be
covering up the worst catastrophe in human history".

  If these efforts are unsuccessful, the activists will wait until the 1999
flyby of Earth.  If NASA announces the maneuver to have gone as planned, the
activists will again demand Congressional hearings to investigate the truth of
NASA's announcement.  If they are still unsatisfied, the activists will sue all
parties who worked to make the mission successful, on the grounds that those
parties conspired to deny the activists a chance to prove the truth of their
claims about the hazards of nuclear materials.


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