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- Subject: UNIT Was Re: some dates needed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.105732.511@rivers>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:57:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.120734.27614@cs.ucf.edu>
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls
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- In article <1992Dec21.120734.27614@cs.ucf.edu>, wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson) writes:
- > Estimated some dates if you know them:
- >
- > 1. year when UNIT was created
-
- Sometime between "The Web of Fear" (1968) and "The Invasion" (1972)
-
- > 2. last known year that UNIT existed (i.e. what's the latest date in a story
- > that UNIT definitely still exists)
-
- We know it existed for "Battlefield" which is probably sometime in the
- mid-1990s.
- The UNIT Special by DWM suggests rather convincingly that UNIT may have
- been actually disbanded by Thatcher and Reagan during the mid-80s but
- reformed after certain events like Mondas' arrival showed just how important
- they were.
-
- With all the "intervention" that seems to be needed in the world these
- days after the end of the Cold War (Somalia, Bosnia, etc.), would you
- people think that some sort of real-life UNIT is now a possibility?
- United Nations Intervention Taskforce? A real military body set up along
- the same nationality lines (i.e. local control usually but Geneva in charge
- in emergencies, etc.) to do the sorts of things we're doing now in Somalia
- and we're talking about doing in Bosnia.
- If such a thing were to be proposed (and Clinton has talked about doing this),
- I think we should at least write some letters encouraging its name to be
- some permutation of the letters U, N, I, and T. After all, "Who" did it
- first.... :) (big smiley, but this would still be cool, wouldn't it?)
-
- > 3. year in The War Machines
- >
-
- 1966
-
- > I think UNIT was created some time before when The Invasion took place. I
- > have no idea about #2.
- >
- > Tom
-
-
- Steven.K.Manfred
-