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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
Message-ID: <642@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 14:30:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 14:30:16 1986
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In article <12366@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>>   IN any case, thh whole point here is that while the Soviets may take things
>>to greater extremes, I cannot think of anything that the Soviets do, to their
>>own citizens, as well as to other nations, that we ourselves in the US do not
>>do, to some extent or another.
>
>Uh, how about leaving the country. As far as I know I can walk
>across the border without any interference.
>
>(The people on the other side might not let me in though :-)

	It has indeed happened that the US Government has revoked a
citizen's passport because they wanted to prevent that citizen from
carrying out his planned activities outside the country.


-- 
					--MKR

"The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The 
 terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency."
						- Albert Einstein