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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: War With Japan.
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 09:27:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 09:27:17 1985
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["TV has cooled Cuba down, as it is cooling down America." --H.M.McL.]

>            The poor in Mexico live in cardboard homes.  Lumber and the
> tools needed to construct adequate shelter are very expensive (so
> is farm machinery, compared to coffee and bananas).  One thing that
> many of these poor folk have, though, is a color television
> which will run off a car battery.  A marketing success story for the
> developed countries, no doubt.

Cardboard houses are very practical in dry countries.  When they wear out,
you can afford to replace them - they're only cardboard!  For more info
see (for example) _The Last Whole Earth Catalog._

And electronic communication is not necessarily a luxury.  A TV can be
invaluable for warning you about approaching sandstorms, platoons, and
other disasters.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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