From rsouza@ox.ac.uk Wed Feb 28 05:24:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!rsouza From: rsouza@ox.ac.uk (Raj Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb28.052438.6005@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 05:24:38 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Raj Souza "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / Linux 1.2.13 From rpopov@inria.fr Wed Feb 28 06:39:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!rpopov From: rpopov@inria.fr (Renata Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb28.063938.2277@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:39:38 GMT References: <1996Feb28.052438.6005@ox.ac.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb28.052438.6005@ox.ac.uk>, rsouza@ox.ac.uk (Raj Souza) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Renata Popov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ssilva@cmu.edu Thu Feb 29 19:30:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!ssilva From: ssilva@cmu.edu (Sven Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb29.193038.5816@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 19:30:38 GMT References: <1996Feb28.052438.6005@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb28.052438.6005@ox.ac.uk>, rsouza@ox.ac.uk (Raj Souza) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Sven Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From ajohansson@kth.se Thu Feb 29 23:37:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!ajohansson From: ajohansson@kth.se (Amy Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb29.233738.5671@kth.se> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:37:38 GMT References: <1996Feb28.052438.6005@ox.ac.uk> <1996Feb28.063938.2277@inria.fr> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Feb28.063938.2277@inria.fr>, rpopov@inria.fr (Renata Popov) writes: > My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Amy Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.