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- issue 44
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- November 15, 1989
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- Our address: Activist Times, Inc.
- P.O. Box 2501
- Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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- Numbers Run:
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- 619-298-4844 CRONOS
- 516-922-wine dial a dirty joke.
- 516-751-2600 2600 magazine
- 201-644-2335 ap newsline for the blind
- 202-456-1414 Bush's desk
- 203-324-3117 comedy shop newsline
- 415-995-2606 Reality Hackers magazine
- 619-375-1234 time and temp
- 415-923-0900 PEACENET.
- 212-966-5000 National Lawyers Guild
- 800-833-news National Student News
- Service/ Hunger Campaign
- 303-499-7111 Atomic Clock
- k800-999-9999 Covenant House's 9-Line for runaways and their parents to call forhelp 24 hours a day.
- 800-527-5018 Specialized Products Co. Call for catalog!
- 201-748-4005 The Red Phone BBS!!!!
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- Hi folks! It's time for Prime Anarchist World News!
-
- Hola, Buena. How goes it? Prime here. I cannot believe we're over 40 issues
- old already.
-
- Great. Whelp, here's some more PAWN, ok?
-
- The first receivers of fone calls said, "Ahoy-ahoy", instead of the later
- greeting, "Hello".
- 10288 is 10-A-T-T. Neat, huh? 10488 is 10-I-T-T. Fitting. How the (10222)
- MCI signifies is beyond me. They were probably just late arranging an
- assignment.
- Oct. 16th, a guy held up a motel. He stole cash, checks and the
- telephone. He got away, because the desk clerk had no way to call police until
- after he left.
- Caffeine freaks: 2 teabags'll work, extra ground'll work; but a chocolate
- bar dropped in your cup will not. Sure, it'll add caffeine, but you won't be
- happy with the taste. The stuff that rises to the top resembles soggy bread,
- bot to sight and taste. And the stuff left at the bottom after you drink will
- sit at the bottom of your stomach for 75 minutes. Drop in two no-doz, or a
- vivarin, if you must, but make sure there's already something in el stomacho.
- Sing this to the tune of "pattycake" (the old mother goose rhyme?):
-
- tammy fay, tammy fay,
- bakker's wife.
- pray that he
- doesn't get life.
-
- Judging from the affadavit (for a phreaker's arrest) printed in issue 41,
- do they really feel safe to assume that an autodialer, a cassette recorder, a
- floppy disc, a modem, a telephone and (or) a computer is a direct sign of
- crime? Holy schmoley, Foley. Sure we've seen these things used and abused. The
- DEVICE is not a threat. Wake up, cops. You're playing the fool.
- AMOS I have never worked with. Is it new? How old? How about someone
- in-the-know (or in-the-think) giving a class on it? Share the wealth, Arouah!!
- Hey "Fucking Texan" (Android Pope) Let's get something clear. Yankees
- are not all bad. And especially not stupid. Just that many of them have been.
- There are good AND bad in all kinds of people. If you resort to generalizations
- like you did in your message, you ARE the "fucking texan" you so resent being
- called.
- The US and NATO forces are definitely working to destabilize countries
- like Albert Fischer's Argentina. It maintains our "high" way of life here in
- the states; but it's extremely dangerous. Very volatile. What you key in on,
- Fischer, is very accurate. This also happens in Texas.
- Radio Shack pays about $70 a month for Mexicans to come help build Tandy
- computers and camcorders. SO WHY DO TX's AND REALISTICtm PRODUCTS STILL COST
- SO @#*@!ing MUCH TO BUY THESE DAYS??? Us Americans are almost criminal for
- even ALLOWING this to continue.
- Nice captures of D-Dial. Let's see ore people sending in stuff they find
- on BBS's, on escalators, in malls, upstairs on the doubledecker bus, or while
- riding an emu, or a buffalo.
- I have a few really good printouts (about a year old) from a chat system
- in East Germany. I'll hafta find them and share. Thing is-- I won't be able to
- get them out of my SDB til December or so. Whatch --for-- it.
- Do you read the New York Slimes, or NewsSpeak magazine? Let's hear what
- mags, papers, rags, or books you all like, dislike, don't care about, etc.
- Well, I have to do it. Sorry. A couple of quake jokes. I know they still
- hurt, so I'll get 'em out of the way now, and move on.
- Everyone's tryin' to figure out if it was the San Andreas fault, or the
- Haymer fault, or what. I don't care whose fault it was, it was devastating.
- The rice-a-roni building burnt down; they had to sell out. Guess who
- bought them? Shake-n-Bake. (Keep your day job!!! -GZ)
- All new--x-rated TV weekly cartoon using clay figurines called gum-me and
- poke-me.
- When asked how old, I usually say, "old enough to know better, but young
- enough to do it anyways."
- Hey, Ramin (213). Speaking about the fone click people -- I picked up the
- receiver the other day and popped a dime in. I dialed the local number I
- wanted.
- "ITI operator", she cuts in. "Would you like normal service, or the
- special service for an additional 35 cents?"
- I told her I couldn't afford the special service, so I settled for normal
- service.
- "Thank you for using ITI", she told me and hung up. Click. That's it.
- Nothing. I lost my dime, never got my call thru, and ran out of money.
- "Blessed are the young, for they are going to inherit the national debt"
- --Hoover.
- Janet Jackson must have the same face painter, and hairstylist as
- Micheal, and his monkey. All three look identical.
- "Pax intrantibus" --Merton. Peace to all who enter.
- Best time to eat pizza is 5:53 in the morning, cold. Canoeing is fun.
- (did I spell that right???)
- I'm going to write a song called "parchese with 7 pieces missing," just
- so the New York Slimes, NewsSpeak, and the Small Street Urinal have to print
- "..and the band played 'parchese with 7 pieces missing.'"
- Found: Left handed pool cue. Brown wood, white pearl inlay. Engraved,
- initials H.A. Call 1-800-eat-shit.
- By the way, last night I called 1-800-eat-shit, and it was busy. So I
- guess it's a popular business now. I still haven't been able to get through.
- I'll post resultz if you try to too.
- Neat. Titanium teeth. If you're afraid your fillings won't outlive you
- like your teeth will; you can have titanium teeth installed. They cost $1500
- bucks each. All it'll cost you for both uppers AND lowers is $8000. "I'll buy
- that for a dollar" --skid roper (who else??)
-
- Oh well, that's about it for this bit. I will ketch you l'8 r.
-
- prime.
-
- alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert alert
-
- I just got a mailing from GMHC, a New York organization working to help AIDS
- victims and their families, educate people about AIDS, and more. I'll summarize
- it for you:
-
- Burroughs Wellcome, producer of the drug AZT known to help AIDS patients, has
- just lowered the price of AZT by 20% to about $6,400 a year.
-
- But it's still far too costly. Especially since Burroughs Wellcome will NOT
- reveal the cost of producing the drug to ANYONE, not the public, and not even
- Congress.
-
- Their refusal to disclose the cost of producing the drug or further reduce its
- price is especially unfair, since the Ameerican taxpayers have paid for AZT
- three times.
-
- First, the US government gave Burroughs Wellcome financial assistance and tax
- credits for research. Then, taxpayers picked up the tab for most of the
- clinical trials for AZT. And now, the federal government is their largest
- customer with Medicaid and other assistance programs. As the 9/15/89 Wall
- Street Journal stated: "AZT's profits are something of a windfall", since
- Burroghs Wellcome "didn't create the compound, it wasn't the first to discover
- its effectiveness against AIDS-type retroviruses, it didn't discover its
- effectiveness against AIDS itself and it didn't conduct the first human tests.
- Much of that work was done by other scientists, some at the National Institute
- of Health with federal funding."
-
- A 50% price cut would double the number the federal government can help in AZT
- assistance. GMHC asks all concerned people (and you should all be concerned!)
- to:
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- 1- Call Burroughs Wellcome at 1-800-922-9292 and tell them "Thanks, but it's
- not enough!"
-
- 2- Send GMHC a note asking them to add your name to their petition which will
- be directed to the White House, Congress, the New York congressional
- delegation and Burroughs Wellcome. The petition states:
-
- "Access to medical care and affordable medicines must be made available for
- HIV-positive people. We are tired of programs which offer too little, too
- late. We want action now!"
-
- And when you send your note, send a contribution to GMHC if you can.
-
- Note: I can't find GMHC's address. If you wish to contact them, call New York
- City information (212)555-1212 and ask for the number for Gay Men's Health
- Crisis and call them. They will give you the address to write to.
-
- -----------------more stuff on AIDS-------------->
-
- Tens of thousands of Americans have died from AIDS. And today there are
- 600,000 KNOWN cases of AIDS. The number of people who are HIV-positive and
- don't know it is probably extremely high.
-
- The money dedicated to researching a cure for AIDS is less than 1% of the
- total money given by the federal government for medical research.
-
- About 2,000 babies are born with AIDS each year in New York city alone.
-
- HBO had an excellent documentary on called "Common Threads: Stories from the
- Quilt" on the air recently. The story centered around a quilt that has over
- 15,000 panels, each one dedicated to someone who had died of AIDS, and told
- the specific stories of five AIDS victims who had died: three gay men, a
- former IV drug user who stopped using too late to avoid AIDS, and a 10-yr old
- hemopheliac boy who got the virus through a blood transfusion. The stories
- were very moving, and the entire show presented a lot of facts about AIDS and
- our government's failure to respond to the crisis. If HBO shows this special
- again, do catch it.
-
- If anyone would like more information about the Names Project Quilt dedicated
- to those who have died of AIDS, the address is: Names Project, PO Box 14573,
- San Francisco, CA 94114. Fone number is 415-863-5511.
-
- There is a BBS dedicted to providing information about AIDS. It's called the
- AIDS Information BBS, and it has sections providing facts about AIDS,
- statistics about AIDS, infomation about organizations that help AIDS victims,
- legal advice, and more. Call this BBS at 415-626-1246. Sysop is Ben Gardiner.
- Adress is: PO Box 1528, San Francisco, CA, 94101.
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- The Roving Eavesdropper
-
- Now for a story about three men talking in a shopping mall. Because two of the
- men's names were not known, they are referred to in the story as A and B.
-
- "Typical Conversation Overheard at a Suburban Mall"
-
- One day I was sitting at the food court at a shopping mall, one of the
- great meccas of suburban culture. I sat at a table adjacent to the center of
- the mall, with its numerous fountains, benches, winding staircases and mall
- rats (people addicted to hanging out in these malls) of all ages.
- I became interested in a fascinating conversation taking place near me.
- Two guys sat on a bench near me with their backs towards me. They both wore
- ragged t-shirts and jeans, and had long hair. Both of them wore baseball caps
- trned backwards, one of them a Metallica cap. They were talking to another guy
- named Steve, who worked at one of the many food concessions. They were
- conversing about a woman they all knew:
- "Hey, you know that girl Cathy? Theone who hangs out at Joe's Bar?",
- asked A.
- "Uh, which one? What does she look like?", asked B.
- "If you knew her you would KNOW who we're talking about", said Steve with
- a laugh. "She gets, uh, kinda funny when she's drunk."
- "Oh, yeah," said Steve. "I know the one."
- "She gets so damn horny when she's drunk. She was drunk over at Joe's the
- other night and gave me a really big kiss for no reason at all," stated A.
- "She's always there. I don't know who watches her kids while she's
- there," said Steve.
- "How old is she?" asked A.
- "She's thirty-eight. With three kids," said Steve.
- "Yeah, well, whenever she's at that bar she's always hanging all over all
- the guys there. Especially the young guys. When I was in there the other night
- she was hugging and kissing all of them. She knew all their names," said B in
- a disgruntled manner.
- "You've seen her there?" asked A.
- "Yeah. I took her there one night and she was flirting with all the young
- guys. She knew every one of them," said B angrily.
- "She always gets really drunk," added Steve.
- "And then she'll do anyone," said B. "But I don't want to do her. I could
- do her anytime I want, but I don't want to see what she looks like after
- having had three kids."
- "Yeah, I know what you mean," replied A.
- "You know man, I brought her over to meet my friend Roy once. You know,
- the one who's an auto body mechanic?" Steve and A nodded. "Well, he took a
- liking to her and I had to leave her there alone with him! And then he
- actually GAVE her one of his cars to drive around in. I couldn't fucking
- believe it!" exclaimed B.
- "Is that thee Ford I saw her driving a couplee of weeks ago?" asked
- Steve. "That's a nice car."
- "Yeah, that's the one. Now she's driving around in his car picking up
- young guys," grumbled B.
- "Hey I hear her sister and her daughter are the same way," chided Steve.
- "Her daughter's seventeen, right? Too young," mused A, looking down at
- the tile floor.
- "Yeah," answered Steve. "But then again, she's not too much like her
- mother. No one's quite like Cathy..."
- "Hey, I could do Cathy in a minute, man," said B with a wave of his arm.
- "But I just don't want to see what she looks like after having three kids." B
- turned to Steve. "Hey do you know anyone that did her?" he asked Steve.
- Steve shook his head and developed a slight grin.
- "Hey man, why don't you do her this weekend and tell me how it was?"
- asked B, hopefully. Steve's response was another shake of his head and a grin.
- B looked at the floor for a moment and cracked a half-smile. "When she
- was drunk one night at Joe's she almost fell down and I put my arm around her.
- Her waist DID seem kinda slender.. and nice...," His voice trailed off as his
- eyes stared ahead. Steve and A exchanged a smirky glance.
- "She's at this bar a lot," noted A. "Does she have a lot of money to
- drink with?"
- "No. Get the picture?" answered Steve.
- "Yeah, I get it," A responded with a laugh.
- "Hey I think I'll call her later," mused B. "You got her nummber?" he
- asked Steve.
- "Yeah, it's home though," said Steve.
- "Oh, I'll hafta get it from you later," said B as he rose. "You heading
- over to Joe's now?"
- "Yeah," answered Steve, rising.
- "How bout you?" B asked A.
- A stood up and stretched. "Yeah, let's go", he said, slapping B on the
- shoulder.
- Although it certainly couldn't be discerned from their conversation, when
- A and B turned around and faced my direction, their faces showed that they
- were approximately in their earlt thirties.
- The three headed towards the door and walked out into the early autumn
- evening, laughing.
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- Notes from Ground Zero.......
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- Bush was in NJ and Virginia the friday before Election Day to help out in
- the gubernatorial races in those states. And when Bush came to NJ, he visited
- none other than my town Bloomfield.
- Most of the spectators could not get close to the grandstand, however.
- This was because it was sectioned off with gates, and a ticket had to be
- obtained from the Republican comittee in advance. There were a bunch of
- neo-Nazi Yuppie-type young Rebublicans guarding the entrance to the sectioned-o
- ff area, taking tickets. But they weren't very smart, as I outsmarted them and
- snuck in anyway. Some time later, I encountered a guy I knew in high school
- who I used to argue with about politics. And he was carrying a pro-choice
- sign, to my surprise.
- "Hey man, good to see you're on the right side now!" I exclaimed. "How
- did you get in with that sign? They only allow pro-Republican signs on this
- side."
- "I just walked in," he answered. "No one stopped me."
- "Hey, you can't carry that over here!" shouted one of the yuppie Young
- Republicans. "Get out of here."
- "Well, I see plenty of YOUR signs on this side," I answered.
- "THESE signs," began the right-wing fascist, "are cleared with the Secret
- Service to appear before the President and be photographed by the media. YOUR
- signs are not. They could have subversive messages on them!"
- "Oh come on, that's ridiculous..." I began, but was interrupted by a very
- tall, muscular man in a trench coat who walked swiftly up to my friend and I,
- grabbing us by the arm.
- "All right, out you go," he said, pushing us outside the entrance into
- the crowd on the other side. My friend and I stepped back inside, but he
- pushed us back out again. I was about to ask him what authority he had to
- throw us out, but gave up and joined the pro-choice demonstrators, whose
- numbers were impressive.
- Some of the young Republicans tried to block us by holding their signs in
- a way so that ours could not be seen. But they tired of that, and lowered
- them. A few minutes later, two young men tried to block our signs by actually
- having one climb on the other's shoulders and holding up the American flag.
- Ironic, eh?
- "Anyone got a light?" I asked loudly. The demonstrators laughed.
-
- Well, anyway, both Republican gubernatorial candidates Bush tried to help
- that day lost. Jim Florio won in NJ, and in Virginia, the first Black governor
- in American history was elected.
- Speaking of the Bushs, I kinda like Barbara Bush. I think she's more, er,
- real than ol' Nancy Reagan, who always had that sick smile pasted on her face
- that looked sooooooo phony. Anyway, here's someting Barbara Bush said that I
- really liked: There was a rumor going around saying that she weighed 135
- pounds (which is impossible). Our First Lady responded to that rumor by
- saying, "I was BORN weighing 135!". All right!
- "Hard Copy" is another yellow-journalistic, exploitation show that's
- aired on CBS. A few weeks ago, they showed color films, that they claimed were
- "home movies" made of Hitler and his close friends, filmed by Eva Braun. They
- looked fake. Then, a few days ago they showed "home movies" of Leona Helmsley.
- Gimme a break.
- Peru - with all the hype about Colombia and the drug cartels, I didn't
- know that actually 60% of the coccaine in the US comes from Peru. Peru is a
- mess. They have a social democratic gov't that's failing, 2 bands of comunist
- guerrillas that control part of the country. And it's claimed that the drug
- lords pay the guerrillas with guns and money to allow them to grow coccaine in
- their territory. (Now THAT'S a disgrace) One of the guerrilla bands is the
- Maoist, hard-line communist Shining Path, which has ties to the Revolutionary
- Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade in the US
- (remember the guy who took the flag-burning case to the Supreme Court? He's a
- member of those organizations). Anyway, now a right-wing dude wants to run for
- president in Peru. Ha. He won't have much luck straightening up the mess if
- he wins.
- Berlin-- we're seeing history in the making. Hey, did you know that each
- first-time E German visitor to W. Germany gets about $55 from the W. German
- government to spend? Good deal! But, the exodus to W. Germany seems to be over
- for now. Most E. Germans ony want to visit the west, citing drugs, homelessness
- problems in W. Germany, and the fact that the pay about 1/10 as much as W.
- Germans do for rent, and the fact that their friends and family is in the East
- as reasons for not emigrating.
-
- El Salvador -- Are we about to see the guerrillas win the civil war? I
- don't see either side willing to compromise much in a political solution, so I
- would hope that the guerrillas take over and end it already. Many people in
- the US are calling for an end to aid to the Salvadoran government, but being
- that we've been giving them about $1 million per DAY for over 10 years, I
- don't see that happening.
- Well, talk at ya later...
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