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Tabloid psychics way off target in 1988
NEW YORK: To hear America's taboid psychics tell it, 1989 will be
an amazing year -- Fidel Castro will die in a hurricane, an Italian
jetliner will crash into the Vatican and a UFO will land in Kansas.
But if such forecasts are to come true, the psychics will have to do a lot better in 1989 than they did last year when virtually nothing they predicted came to pass.
According to 10 top psychics polled by the National Enquirer, a tabloid
read by millions, the following things were supposed to happen in 1988.
- Mikhail Gorbachev would divorce his wife.
- Queen Elizabeth would step down from the throne.
- Princess Diana would give birth to Siamese
twins and Parliament would debate which infant should be ranked higher
in the order of succession to the throne.
- Prehistoric dinosaur eggs would be hatched by scientists.
- An electric microchip implanted in the brain would be discovered as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease and
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Ten healthy babies would be born to a woman taking a fertility drug.
Only a few forecasts came even close to being true.
Denver psychic Lou Wright said Sarah Ferguson would have a baby, but
his full prediction said the Duchess of York and Princess Diana would
have babies on the same day, and that Fergie would have a boy. She had
a girl.
Los Angeles Pschic Florence Vaty predicted an end to the Iran-Iraq war, but said the United States would force it to end.
National Examiner psychic-astrologer Belle Starr also forsaw an end to
the Iran-Iraq war, but said it would come when millions of Iranians
drowned themselves in the Gulf after a dying Ayatollah Khomeini ordered
the entire nation to join him in the hereafter.
--Reuter
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