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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Missles in the Third World
Keywords: Especially the Middle East
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Date: 9 Aug 90 02:01:09 GMT
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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)

[Note to moderator--I hope this isn't part of a flood of submissions
noting the same things . . .   --whh]

There is an excellent (and timely) article in the August issue of
"Scientific American" on the spread of missles in third world
countries--particularly the Middle East and South Asia.

Curiously there is an interesting statement in the article--

	Industrialized countries began to realize how
	missle proliferation threatened their interests
	during the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands,
	when Argentina used Exocet missles supplied by
	France to sink a top-of-the-line British cruiser.

I'm sure the skipper of the Sheffield would be proud to know how
large a ship he was commanding . . .  (Do you think the authors might
have confused it with the General Belgrano?)

	--Hal

[mod.note:  If so, they must have re-defined the term "top-of-the-line."
- Bill ]

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