From ntanaka@netcom.com Tue Jun 18 02:18:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!ntanaka From: ntanaka@netcom.com (Nadia Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun18.021818.2190@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 02:18:18 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Nadia Tanaka Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ncampbell@berkeley.edu Thu Jun 20 02:16:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!ncampbell From: ncampbell@berkeley.edu (Nadia Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun20.021618.8394@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 02:16:18 GMT References: <1996Jun18.021818.2190@netcom.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun18.021818.2190@netcom.com>, ntanaka@netcom.com (Nadia Tanaka) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. 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. -- Nadia Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From nchoi@cmu.edu Thu Jun 20 18:40:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!nchoi From: nchoi@cmu.edu (Natalia Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun20.184018.8140@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:40:18 GMT References: <1996Jun18.021818.2190@netcom.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun18.021818.2190@netcom.com>, ntanaka@netcom.com (Nadia Tanaka) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Natalia Choi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0