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I mean I can't tell you how much response we have.

This one came to us via email actually to our website from David Weber or as it's listed in his byline

This is another another news release

Unprecedent response, Greet's call for vowels for Bosnia. Beaming with joy, 10-year-old Jen Hollihan dashed down the steps of City Hall here yesterday into the waiting arms of a proud

parents Ellen and Bob Hollerhand. The Hollerhands were among the millions of

Americans who have responded to President Bill Clinton's plea for donations of vowels to Bosnia.

Despite the bitter refusal of congressional Republicans to support the measure,

this country cannot be the alphabet to the world, declared Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, ordinary citizens

have nevertheless flooded local collection centers with contributions.

Operation Volkstorm proposed by the President late last year has resulted in the deployment of more

than 75,000 A's, E's, I's, O's, and U's, to war ravaged cities of the former Yugoslavia like

Leggislevin it and growlum. Now here's the interesting part.

This shows you the kind of people that we Americans are.

Jen Hollihan, who spent the first decade of her life as Jeannie O'Hoolahan, said she was inspired

by the example of Cheel's Clinton. But Jen was among the relatively small group of Americans who

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