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[fuhrel at ccmail.ccsn.nevada.edu]

          Let me humbly suggest that you buy something other than a
          Ford until Ford begins to adopt the MacBride Principles for
          Fair Employment practices in Northern Ireland.  Sorry to
          inject politics into the Pynchon discussion.  Actually I am
          not really sorry to do so.  Bob Fuhrel