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Through an unfortunate accident, one was
killed this morning in the Los Angeles Zoo.
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Zoo?
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What would astronauts
be doing in a zoo, Mr President?
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They are not astronauts, General Faulkner.
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They are apes.
Chimpanzees, to be more precise.
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They're harmless, friendly, and, by all reports,
extremely intelligent and sophisticated.
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But, naturally, being animals,
they cannot tell us
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where the ship came from
or how they came to be in it.
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l have therefore decided to convene
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a Presidential Commission of lnquiry
in Los Angeles tomorrow.
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The two surviving apes will be presented
to the commission for their inspection.
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The press will be invited
to attend, not to participate.
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l don't believe that we can
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withhold this extraordinary discovery
from the world any longer.
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One ofthe two American spaceships
believed to have disintegrated in orbit
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splashed down yesterday in the Pacific
Ocean, offthe coast of southern California,
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and is stated to have been manned,
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if you can call it ''manned,'' by monkeys.
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l have nothing to say, gentlemen.
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l haven't got time now. A little later.
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Here comes the chairman.
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As the president's science advisor,
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what do you expect to experience
from this historic meeting?
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Fear.
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All right now. After l break the news,
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l want you to start slowly with simple
answers to what will be simple questions.