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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: socialists and weapon acquisition
Message-ID: <1459@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 16:46:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 16 16:46:04 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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> ...   The USSR has
>had six or seven new fighters in the last decade or so.  We've had three,
>going on four.  Other NATO and allied nations and consortiums have had a few
>more, but how many of these can they afford to build?  And how many will they
>build with socialists influential in government?

What has it to do with socialists in Government?  The last Labour Government
in the UK ordered 13 warships, opposed to Thatcher's 3.  The politician
most influential in getting the controversial missiles into Europe was
Helmut Schmidt (socialist).  I think that comment was just a
"knee-jerk red herring" (love that image problem).
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Martin Taylor
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