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• There are so many bugs in our embassy in Moscow it is time for us to send over a new ambassador -- the Orkin man.
• August 6 -- As "Ollie-mania" continues to sweep the country, one of the most popular video-arcade games in the country is a new one called -- this is true -- "Contra.
  The way it works is, there are are two soldiers on the screen, and when you put in a quarter, it never gets to them....
• April 30 -- Following a lengthy and dramatic trial, a confused New Jersey jury awards custody of a 3-month-old boy to a 6-week-old girl.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• April 26 -- Jack Kemp announces that he is running for president, pledging that, if elected, he will deepen his voice.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• April 3 -- In the Persian Gulf, Iranians attack the Islip garbage barge, but are driven off by courageous flies.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• We were hungry when we got to Moscow, Soviet. -- Groucho Marx
• April 13 -- True Anecdote: In National League baseball action, the Atlanta Braves' Dion James hits a ball that would have been caught easily, except that in midair it strikes and kills a dove.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• April 14 -- In Colorado, Gary Hart declares his candidacy for the presidential nominatio
  making the official announcement while standing in front of a dramatic backdrop of soaring mountains, towering pine trees, and four Miami Herald reporters disguised as rhododendrons....