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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: U.S. exports torture tools
Message-ID: <3081@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 17:54:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 17:54:27 1984
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Food for thought:


EXPORT OF `TORTURE' TOOLS APPROVED

  NEW YORK (Reuter) -- The Commerce Department has authorized the
export of what it calls ``specially designed implements of torture''
to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and members of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, Newsweek Magazine said yesterday.
  The magazine said that when a Commerce Department spokesman was
asked about the ``torture'' instruments, he said they included
``thumbscrews and cattle prods -- just routine items for the police.''
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