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(...) Oh frabjous day! This is awesome! Now all you need is an offshore oil rig and a Greenpeace ship with little rubber rafts to escort it! :-, Really, this is a fantastic model. Thank you for sharing it with us! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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Sproaticus wrote in message <36ED46E0.E092A51E@g...es.com>... (...) rubber rafts to escort it! :-, Yeah, and French Navy Vessels to board the Greenpeace boats and escort them back to international waters : ) Oh yeah, LEGO(R) is supposed to be (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And New Zealand-funded terrorists to sink it in a peaceful harbor. I forgot how discouraging it must be to be a Rainbow Warrior. :-( I've seen their antics at the Army base I grew up on. I have to hand it to them, they're among the most gutsy (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Sproaticus wrote in message <36ED9DAF.B9FB281E@g...es.com>... (...) them (...) forgot (...) Woh, Back the Super Tanker up there. "New Zealand-funded terrorists"? They were French Terrorists and they sank it in a peaceful New Zealand harbor, This (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh. That's different from the story I heard, way back when it happened. Then again, what I heard was through the _Stars and Stripes_, which if you consider is published by the US Army, probably isn't the most unbiased piece of yellow (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) They (...) see (...) piece (...) They spies were caught and exposed as working for the French government. Rather than being sentenced for murder here they were returned to their government who packed them off to some tropical island "prison" (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) printed (roughly) a week or two after the fact. Points where they differ completely include: 1. There was only one blast, and the ship sank slowly. 2. The person who drowned wasn't alerted to the sinking of the ship because he was asleep, but (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Is this the Rainbow Warrior 1 we are talking about? If so, UK Television said that it was destroyed by a French torpedo (I think) - the news report was on reflection of the recent French Nuclear Tests that the Rainbow Warror 2 was going to be there (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And yet another wildly different version to the story. Hmmm... Government redirectionism, atrocities hidden by half-truths, other atrocities defended as sovergn rights, bureauocratic informational blundering... Why hasn't this story been done (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Yet another version from Turkey. It' had been reported as "sabotaged and sunk by the French secret service agents" by newspapers and TV. And I think I'm remembering another incident, it was also reported in Times or Newsweek as same. The article was (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Because it's sadly true. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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