From ylee@clari.net Wed Oct 11 14:53:32 1995
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From: ylee@clari.net (Yuki Lee)
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Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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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.

The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.'

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Yuki Lee
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From kmoreno@cern.ch Wed Oct 11 16:28:32 1995
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From: kmoreno@cern.ch (Kenji Moreno)
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Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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In article <1995Oct11.145332.9437@clari.net>, ylee@clari.net (Yuki Lee) writes:
> The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark.

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.

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Kenji Moreno
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva.
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