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And now . . . from our studios in Troy . . . this is the TV Evening News . . . with anchorman Ptolemy Rathers, and the Alpha Beta Zeta news team.

Ptolemy Rathers (crisply): Good evening. Our lead story tonight deals with the mounting crisis in the Priam Administration over the large Wooden Horse that was found this morning on a lonely strip of beach near the camp of the Greek freedom fighters. A team of UN observers has confiscated the horse under international law, but the Priam Administration has filed a protest with the Security Council, claiming that the horse is full of Greek soldiers and munitions which are to be smuggled into Troy. King Priam, vacationing with Queen Hecuba at their summer palace at Camp Delphos, has sent word by messenger that the Wooden Horse is to be turned over to Pentagon officials and held until it can be inspected by an international team of Orkin men. Meanwhile, feeling is growing here in the capital that the Administration is trying to use the Horse in its campaign to win the appropriations battle over the two hundred Titan XII catapults it wants. And now, for an on-the-scene report, we go to Menelaus Mudd at the Greek camp.

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And now . . . from our studios in Troy . . . this is the TV Evening News . . . with anchorman Ptolemy Rathers, and the Alpha Beta Zeta news team.

Ptolemy Rathers (crisply): Good evening. Our lead story tonight deals with the mounting crisis in the Priam Administration over the large Wooden Horse that was found this morning on a lonely strip of beach near the camp of the Greek freedom fighters. A team of UN observers has confiscated the horse under international law, but the Priam Administration has filed a protest with the Security Council, claiming that the horse is full of Greek soldiers and munitions which are to be smuggled into Troy. King Priam, vacationing with Queen Hecuba at their summer palace at Camp Delphos, has sent word by messenger that the Wooden Horse is to be turned over to Pentagon officials and held until it can be inspected by an international team of Orkin men. Meanwhile, feeling is growing here in the capital that the Administration is trying to use the Horse in its campaign to win the appropriations battle over the two hundred Titan XII catapults it wants. And now, for an on-the-scene report, we go to Menelaus Mudd at the Greek camp.