Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: nuchat!steve@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Nuchia) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Soviet Air Presence at US Airshows Message-ID: <1990Jul30.015849.8826@cbnews.att.com> Date: 30 Jul 90 01:58:49 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Approved: military@att.att.com From: nuchat!steve@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Nuchia) >From: "Stephen D. Grant" >tour which they are making is funded totally by the aircrafts >manufacturers, Migoyan. The Kremlin is paying nothing for this 'outing'. The Kremlin is still the majority shareholder in Migoyan, in case we've forgotten. :-) To say the Kremlin pays nothing is, in my opinion, to buy into a false dichotomy. It is a dichotomy that comes naturally to the American mind, and our new Soviet friends have become quite adept at presenting their public relations stories in ways that "sound right" to us. Just because they aren't the bad guys any more doesn't mean we have to swallow it. On the other hand, it isn't much different from U.S. defense contractors scoring PR points while burying the cost in guaranteed-profit contracts.