[1388] in APO News
[Derrick Kong: INCOMING!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 15 15:41:59 1995
From: dcctdw@MIT.EDU
To: apo-summer@MIT.EDU, mitbdt@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:41:29 EDT
Hmm. :)
dave
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To: rolemaster@MIT.EDU
Subject: INCOMING!
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:23:26 EDT
From: Derrick Kong <starflt@MIT.EDU>
From clarinet:
MOSCOW (AP) -- The infamously slow and unreliable Russian postal
system got a ballistic boost this week when a rocket delivered mail
to a remote peninsula in the Far East.
In just 20 minutes, the SS-18 missile delivered 1,270 letters
Wednesday to the Kamchatka Peninsula, nine time zones and thousands
of miles away.
The ITAR-Tass news agency said the mail was inside the capsule
that carried a German mini-lab into space, then parachuted to the
ground.
The missile was launched from a Russian nuclear submarine in the
Barents Sea off Murmansk, home port of the Northern Fleet.
ITAR-Tass said the mail was being stamped and delivered today
along with special certificates saying it had been delivered by
ballistic missile.
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