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From: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: The USF.
Message-ID: <31563@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 91 00:02:54 GMT
References: <15060EB320203F33@semassu.edu> <6213@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
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In article <6213@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> tarl@sw.stratus.com (Tarl Neustaedter) writes:

>Given that this group is arrogating to itself the authority to "draft and
>enforce international space law", I think detailed scrutiny of the current
>organization, it's funding and official backing, is very much in order. Any
>law-writing/enforcement organization needs continual monitoring of who and
>what controls it; sources of funding are the primary means of such monitoring.

Fortunately, anyone can write all the laws they like...getting someone 
to *enforce* those laws is something else entirely. :-)  The 'USF' will
quietly fade away in a few months, like most other self-styled space 
agencies.

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Matthew DeLuca                   
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