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From: gene@batman.UUCP (Gene Mutschler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 15:44:48 EDT
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>  This is third hand but: my father (a trust officer) had a client who
>  travelled frequently in the USSR who told him that he had approached
>  a woman on a park bench in Moscow who was reading.... TIME!  She said
>  there was no problem getting copies to read as it was not restricted.
> 
> 	John Chapman
> 	...!watmath!watcgl!jchapman
> 
> 	Disclaimer : These are not the opinions of anyone but me

It is not restricted to Party members with access to the special stores
maintained by the government for the elite (there is a Russian word for
these stores, but it slips my mind at the moment).  These people are
regarded as being able to handle western news and are in fact
encouraged to follow it since they are the ones in charge of anti-US
operations, etc.--sort of a "know the enemy" deal.  Ordinary Russians
cannot get it.
-- 
Gene Mutschler             {ihnp4 seismo ctvax}!ut-sally!batman!gene
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