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by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

TOP TEN NEWS STORIES OF THE HOUR

Monday, 15 June 2188; 1100 EDT New England Region

RANK/HEADLINE (price) LEAD SENTENCE

#1/MUSLIM-REFUBLICANS TO THE RESCUE AGAIN (.20) Fresh from last
week's triumphant evacuation of greater Peking, the Muslim Republican
Directorate of Public Safety and the Social Tech Directorate of Public
Transportation have again joined forces, this time to move some seventeen
million Floridians out of the reach of Hurricane Dora, predicted to be the
most devastating in history.

#2/10,000 HOMELESS IN NYC FIRE (.20) A fire of undetermined origin
swept down a Manhattan street early this morning, killing six, injuring two
hundred seven and releasing seventeen tons of C02 into the atmosphere.

#3/"CANNIBAL KILLER" FINALLY CAUGHT IN RIO HIGH-RISE (.15) The
hatchet-wielding terror of Rio de Janeiro's largest public housing complex
was apprehended yesterday, after eluding inept Marx/Com cops for six
weeks, a spokesrep for the MC Directorate of Public Security announced this
morning.

#4/COURTESY TITLES TO GO? HEARINGS SET ON THREE-CHARACTER
SUBSTITUTES (.10) In yet, another attempt to enforce total computer
compatibility, the Coalition's Directorate of Public Statistics today proposed
adding three occupation-keyed characters to the fifteen character ID/dress;
if adopted as the fourth ID/dress expansion in the last century, the new
code would lead off the ID/dress, replacing all traditional courtesy titles.

#5/DACS DOWN JETLINER: 485 FEARED DEAD (.20) ST/DeepTrans Flight
1963, carrying four hundred eighty-five passengers and crewmembers,
crashed to Earth outside Osaka at 0943 (EDST) this morning; witnesses
claim to have seen a Dac mothership launch missiles at it instants before
the crash.

#6/BEEF PRICE HIKES DUE TO MV/DEEPAG ACTIONS COWPOKE SAYS
(.10) The President of the Argentine Cattleraisers' Association charged that
recent rises in the price of beef are tied directly to production ceilings
imposed by the Marian-Vegetarian Directorate of Public Agriculture that
controls most of the best grazing land in Argentina.

#7/MARKET DROPS IN EUROPE (.10) The stock market is down over forty
points on European exchanges this morning, as investors rush to unload
shares in PFG, the large building contractor rocked by allegations of bribery.
#8/TWELVE MORE DIE IN LONDON POISONING (.10) Spokesreps for the
Oreen-Rad Directorate of Public Health have confirmed that twelve more