Here in the U.S....at each point where the Olympic torch is "re-layed",
events titled "I SAW THE FLAME" are hosted (sponsored) by Coca-Cola and
Chevrolet.
News "sources" here are reporting that the fires were started (and are being
started) by 9 to 13 year old boys.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Happy New Year/ Oz burns
> on 1/2/02 11:15 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > The news in Canada has been running the story for days now, & last night
as
> > the fires approached northern Sydney suburbs I recognized places where
> > friends live, or what's very nearby. And I hear they are close to the
> > Hunter Valley too. You've said no one has been killed yet, so we can
only
> > all hope that will remain true. Originally it seems that the fires were
> > mostly to the south of Sydney, but now I'm wondering if they have moved
> > into the Hawkesbury River area, where a good friend lives...
>
> Thank you, Doug, for this update, with more details than my accessible
news
> channels have provided and more too than Australian listees have posted
thus
> far.
>
> Viv & Jill: are you back in Sydney yet and/or resubbed to Petc? And don't
we
> have any other listees on the spot?
>
> Alison: "terrorism" is hardly a "non-word," having a venerable history
that
> goes back (at least) to the French Revolution. I find its attempted
> repression by fiat/declaration of a bogus non-ness chilling, or I would
were
> it not simply silly.
>
> Martin: thanks for the reminder of the Twin Peaks line ("Fire, walk with
> me"), which has a history I can't recall now myself, but suspect that JK
> could fill us in on if he's back(?). Another line I've always loved is
> Pound's "Audiadr, remember this fire!"
>
> To which I'll add: remember this terror!
>
> Candice
>
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