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[rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett): News of the Weird... from the Chronicle, Sept. 14 ]
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From: Gene Spafford <spaf>
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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 90 13:54:54 EST
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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 90 20:08:38 -0500
From: rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett)
To: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu
Subject: News of the Weird... from the Chronicle, Sept. 14
Lead Story
France's tourism minister, Olivier Stirn, resigned in July after his plan
to increase attendance at a conference back-fired. When only 37 people showed
up (out of 5,000 invitees), Stirn hurriedly called a local actors' union
and offered about $50 each for 200 actors to sit in the audience to make it
respectable in size (Featured speakers were 12 government ministers and two
former prime minsiters). However, the actors thought their gig expired at 6:15
PM (while Defense Minister Jean Pierre Chevenement was speaking), and they
walked out en masse.
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