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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: RUSSIAN SCIENCE: PLEASE HELP !!!
Message-ID: <1991May7.161827.21861@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 16:18:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.234214.28955@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> <80607@bu.edu.bu.edu> <1991May2.020034.1377@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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>In article <80607@bu.edu.bu.edu> of 1 May 91 14:06:48 GMT Gene Itkis writes:

>I would like to add a word of caution. It may be possible that your
>equipment will never get to be used in the ways in which you intended
>it when donating.  Space research is closely tied with the military
>and that may be who you'll end up supplying. Also you should take
>into account the corraption and possibities of redirecting goods to
>black market (remember that Moscow black markets were full of Red
>Cross buckets and blankets after Armenia's earthquake).

I would like to add a word of caution to this word of caution.
Considering the amount of computer science research that is funded by
military means (ONR, DARPA, etc), if you are in America and donate
equipment, chances are it will be used LESS for military research,
than if you leave it in the United States.

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