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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: "We will bury you." -Khruschev
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Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 11:07:30 EST
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> We also have to be careful with what *we* say, and how we say it.  
> Physicist Freeman Dyson, in his recent book *Weapons and Hope*,
> points out that the word "deterrence," used so frequently in arms
> discussions in the West, translates in Russian as "intimidation."  
> It's little wonder, given the Russians' paranoid proclivities,
> that they respond coolly to talk of "intimidation" by the West.  
> 
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> Michael McNeil
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If this is why the Russians are so "intimidated" by us, then I will personally
go to may local drug store and by an English to Russian dictionary and send
it to Moscow, free of charge.
I mean, after 40 years of negoiations, the Russians should be told the real
meaning of deterrence.
Well, that takes care of intimidation, next problem?

ray the diplomat