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Toilet paper. That's the top lottery prize in the Ukrainian city of Stakhanov. Other valuable prizes include detergent, hens, and pigs. "Except for the lottery, one cannot get these goods," comments the newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta.
Over 3000 people have been told to flee a region of the Soviet Union affected by the Chernobyl nuclear-reactor disaster. Illnesses have doubled in the area, despite decontamination efforts during the last three years. Some scientists insist that 106,000 additional people need to be evacuated.
Reports of flying saucers have become common in the Soviet press. The daily Socialist Industry, published by the Communist Party's central committee, recently interviewed a milkmaid who spied "a fluorescent creature" on the road. Something unusual is going on in the territory of our two collective farms," acknowledged the Communist Party head in the Chernushinsky region.
PHILADELPI WORKERS NO NO WORKER UNITE! LAY. OFFS DISLOCATION 520V2 END PRIVATE ENTERPRISE DAMNED COMMIES millionaires and 3000 to 10,000 underground millionaires, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Back in the USA, Alcoa Corporation has been granted the distinction of heading up this year's "Toxic 500" (published by the National Wildlife Federation). Alcoa is responsible for over one-tenth of the 10.3 billion pounds of toxic waste produced by the 500 most-polluting corporations in the United States.
The Second Coming of Jesus will be unavoidably delayed, says prophet Edgar C. Whisenant of Little Rock, Ark. Last year, Whisenant predicted that the Rapture heralding Christ's Coming would take place on Sept. 12, 1988. This triggered hundreds of "rapture parties," thousands of last-minute conversions, and millions of dollars in sales of Whisenant's book.
But Sept. 12, 1988, came and went with scarcely a sign from Jesus. Whisenant consulted the Scriptures and is now fairly certain that he was one year off. "Jesus is coming, and I would give it at least a 50-percent chance in 1989," says the prophet. So keep an ear tuned for the sound of the trumpets.