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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: USSR Downs Plane -- What Can We Do? - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 22:26:52 EDT
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tekcad!franka    Sep  4 13:23:00 1983

	OK, we all know what happened.  Now, what can we do?  By
	ourselves, not one damn thing.

BULLSHIT!!! I liked George Will's suggestion which I heard today on
David Brinkley's Journal, i.e., have the American government nationalize
the debts to the eastern block countries (by buying them from the banks)
and then forcing them into default. This can be done BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.
It WILL have a devastating effect on the eastern-block economies (and may
even cause a revolution here or there (no country is more than three meals
away from a revolution)). This, however, will cost money. How willing are
you right-wingers out there to shell out a few more tax dollars to pay for
this sanction? No, I supposed not. Lets just go on with miniscule trade
embargos and not letting their aircraft land in our country (which hasn't
been allowed since Afghanistan, anyway). Oh yeah, and lets put on another
grain embargo (I mean there ain't no farmers on the net). Heaven forbid
that we do anything that costs ourselves anything.

					Frank Adrian

p.s. I know this is probably not going to happen. We all know that the
Chase Manhatten Bank and David Rockefeller are making too much green stuff
on the interest for these loans, let alone the rest of the "humanitarian"
loans we have given to the rest of the world (this is what I meant when I
said that elected officials don't hold the REAL power in this country).