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To: lorne who wrote (45997)	12/15/1999 7:59:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116764

Yeltsin Puts Nuclear Missiles on 'Red Alert' NewsMax.com December 14, 1999 Still furious over United States criticism of Russia's war in Chechnya, President Boris Yeltsin has placed his most deadly intercontinental nuclear missiles on "combat alert." The Moscow bureau of the London Express is reporting that, on his orders, 10 of Russia's newest, most sophisticated weapons - capable of striking the U.S. - have been deployed in full readiness. This unprecedented dramatic warning has Western observers nervous about the possibility of an inadvertent launch at a time when it is known that Russia's missiles are not fully reprogrammed to avert all millennium-year computer failures. Russia just recently sent computer and missile experts to Washington to work with American specialists in averting Y2K (cont) newsmax.com