From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:04:37 +0800
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Subject: Still [NOISE] but a.f.urban was clearly wrong [Fwd: Re: ABOI: Desperate User Support])
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You should know better than to believe everything you read in
alt.folklore.urban, even the debunking. 

There was a brief Libyan-backed coup in Trinidad & Tobago in July 1990.
Here are a few Reuters headlines in reverse chronological order, courtesy
of Lexis/Nexis. I also recall a couple of excellent articles in The
Economist.

I believe that the Symantec story has at least some truth to it. 

I don't read alt.folklore.urban, so I won't post there, but someone should.

-rich


                             Copyright 1991 Reuters

                        April 9, 1991, Tuesday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 167 words

HEADLINE:  TRINIDAD COUP  HEARING POSTPONED AFTER NOISY COURTROOM PROTESTS

DATELINE: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad

 BODY:
   A pretrial hearing for 18 of the alleged plotters in the July 1990  
Trinidad 
 coup  attempt was postponed Tuesday because of noisy courtroom protests.

   Members of the black Moslem Jamaat al Muslimeen group chanted and 
banged ...



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                       October 2, 1990, Tuesday, BC cycle

LENGTH: 3422 words

HEADLINE: WORLD NEWS EVENTS SCHEDULED DURING THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS

 BODY:
   ... visits (until Oct. 10).

   NASHVILLE Country Music Association annual awards.

   PORT-OF-SPAIN Expected starting date of  Trinidad coup  plotters trial.

   STOCKHOLM Nobel Prize for Medicine announced.

   STRASBOURG, France European Parliament plenary session (until ...

   ... visits (until Oct. 10).



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                     September 13, 1990, Thursday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 371 words

HEADLINE:  TRINIDAD COUP  PLOTTERS FACE TRIAL

BYLINE: By Lindsay MacKoon

DATELINE: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                      August 23, 1990, Thursday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 184 words

HEADLINE:  TRINIDAD COUP  HEARING DELAYED OVER SECURITY CONCERNS

DATELINE: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                      August 15, 1990, Wednesday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 387 words

HEADLINE: TRIAL OF TRINIDAD MOSLEM REBELS COULD BEGIN NEXT WEEK

BYLINE: By Lindsay MacKoon

DATELINE: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad

 BODY:
   ... 1 and transferred to Trinidad's state prison under heavy security.

   Caribbean nations, worried about the economic conditions that 
contributed to 
the  Trinidad coup  attempt, plan to hold a meeting to discuss ways of 
improving
regional security. Barbados Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford ...



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                        July 31, 1990, Tuesday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 496 words

HEADLINE: ANY FLIGHT WILL DO FOR THOUSANDS THRONGING TRINIDAD AIRPORT

BYLINE: By Peter Zollman

DATELINE: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad

 BODY:
   Thousands of sweaty tourists and business people trying to flee the 
chaos of 
the  Trinidad coup  attempt jammed Piarco International Airport Tuesday,
jostling and shoving to get on any available flight out of the island.



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                        July 30, 1990, Monday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 96 words

HEADLINE: AGREEMENT TO END  TRINIDAD COUP  ATTEMPT BREAKS DOWN

BYLINE: By Peter Zollman

DATELINE: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad



                             Copyright 1990 Reuters

                        July 29, 1990, Sunday, AM cycle

LENGTH: 507 words

HEADLINE: MORE THAN 300 WOUNDED IN  TRINIDAD COUP  AS TALKS BOG DOWN

BYLINE: By Peter Zollman

DATELINE: PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad