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-From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
-Subject: ques about earlier "suicides" of SDI scientists
-Date: 19 Jan 93 08:51:42 GMT
-Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

-About five years ago, there were quite a few suicides by scientists in
-Europe who were asociated with the US led "strategic defense initiative."

-Quite a few of these seemed to be suspicious, and the gross numbers were
-quite a bit higher than would be expected in a group of this size.

-I haven't heard anything lately about this nor have I been able to track
-down the results of any investigations.  The only stuff I've found has
-been news articles simply describing the venets.

-Does anybody out there in greater NETLAND have any further info?  Or can
-you direct me to better sources?

Since this corresponds extremely closely to the classic 1951 short story
"Breeds there a Man...?", written by Isaac Asimov, and available in the
collections "Nightfall and Other Stories" and "Nightfall One", I'd say
there's a significant chance that you read either this story or a reference
to this story, and now you remember it as an historical event.

Or, maybe, [lowers voice to ominous tone] 
it...wasn't...just...a...story!!! [eerie music plays in background]

:-)
John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov