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The From the high desert and the great American Southwest, the very strange great American Southwest.

I bid you all good evening, good afternoon, good morning, wherever the world you are listening to us the moment. I'm Art Bell. The program is coast to coast a.m. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good morning. Wherever the world you are listening to us

the moment. I'm Ardell. The program is Coast to Coast to the M. It's worldwide. Great to be with you. Boy, what a story I have to tell you. Oh, my.

We had quite a day today here in the desert. I'll tell you all about it in a moment. Welcome, KTana, Texas. All right, Texarkana.

940 on the dial there.

And the GM is Mike Simpson.

Glad to have you on board the network as we continue to grow and grow and growing, grow and grow and grow.

All right, I do have a serious story to tell you about.

And I would like to, I'd like to add that for that purpose,

I'm going to be holding the first-time caller line open for only people here in the

Perump area, the Southern Nevada area, in general.

And that is area code 775, 7271-2-2.

So if everybody else would please not dial that number for a while here, that's the 727-1-222 number,

only for the Perump southern Nevada area.

Now, I'll briefly cover what's going on in the world, which is never too pretty

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Monday that Israeli troops would press ahead with a campaign

against Palestinian militants in Ramallah and Bethlehem, despite U.S. pleas to get out.

Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday embraced the idea of an international conference aimed at stopping Middle East violence

and restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, sidestepping a clash with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who wants to exclude Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from any such conference.

I, before moving on, well, here's an interesting one from Racine, Wisconsin Art.

I can't believe the weather we're having here in southern Wisconsin.

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