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304 eo60C - BCK 25.03.1989 Fr. Katian o3 BPEMA 14.57.17,926 axcno3. coos made headlines (Fig. 133) but was retracted the next day as a “misunderstanding.” In fact, the discovery was so shocking that it led to a sudden change in U.S.—Soviet relations, a meeting and an agreement for space cooperation between President Reagan and Chairman Gorbachev, and public state- ments by the President at the United Nations and other fo- rums that included the following words (pointing heavenwards with his finger as he said them): Just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe... I occa- sionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from out- side this world. The Working Committee that was formed as a result of these concerns conducted several meetings and leisurely THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 132