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...alien spacecraft that exploded while trying to land on earth. A hit by a stray bit of antimatter, or a speeding mini-black hole, or the head of a comet. These are some of the fanciful theories offered over the years to explain the fireball in the sky and the giant explosion that devastated a remote region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, leveling trees for miles around, knocking over huts, stampeding reindeer and creating an enormous shock wave detected around the world...
...status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would, of course, generously reward any legislator willing to sponsor such legislation. (In past years as many as 7,300 private immigration bills had been introduced in the House, and such mere introduction could indefinitely postpone any deportation proceedings against an alien already in the U.S. After this rule was eliminated in 1971, the number of these bills dropped, to 662 last year. Full passage by both chambers of Congress is now required for admission of an alien to the U.S. outside of quotas...
...there first, the author is disarmed of illusion and no longer fit to wage war. In a letter to an un named intimate, he writes, "I wish I could explain the desperate sense of isolation, of not belonging to my own past, of being adrift in some kind of alien space." It is the unresolved anger of a soldier whose arms, legs, eyes and genitals are constantly threatened with mutilation...
...There are too many tanks, and planes are always coming. For every one of us here, two or three are still fighting, but I fear Paktia is done for." Others talked as truculently as ever. Said Gul Amir, 36: "The Russians can't stay in Afghanistan. They are so alien that even the animals hate them...
Perhaps Mr. Schickel would enjoy Star Trek more if he could understand it. Those "weirdos" were not inside the alien machine, they were inside the Klingon warships. Since these warships were destroyed by the alien, I for one was not surprised that the weirdos did not show up later in the movie...