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From: jr@taurus.UUCP (Jim R Oldroyd)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: cruise missiles
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 08:37:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 08:37:49 1984
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Piet Beersma (sp?) makes an interesting point:

Many european governments are going ahead with the deployment of
american nuclear missiles against the overwhelming wishes of the
majority of the people in their countries.  This is apparent from the
not insignificant rallies and demonstrations in major cities all around
europe.  As piet said: What happened to the idea of democracy?

It seems to me that the politicians of our countries are encouraging an
arms race against the soviet union, while at the same time letting us
all think they are doing this BECAUSE the soviet union is building up
it's arms.

As I recall, the soviets have only recently announced major buildups
of their arms, while cruise deployment has been in progress for some
time now.

What will it take to stop european governmments participating in this
race and persuade them to resist the pressure from the USA to do so?
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									++jim
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