Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!uscvax!baparao From: baparao@uscvax.UUCP (Bapa Rao) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Slime of the Week Award Message-ID: <60@uscvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 16:12:43 EST Article-I.D.: uscvax.60 Posted: Tue Mar 25 16:12:43 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 09:27:40 EST References: <264@bu-cs.UUCP> <7801148@inmet> Reply-To: baparao@usc-cse.UUCP (Bapa Rao) Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 23 In article <7801148@inmet> az@inmet.UUCP writes: > >[Barry Chein] >> To George Will who on one of those Saturday morning press shows this >> past week (Meet the Press I think, who cares, it happened, I saw it) >> remarked that we should not help the Philippines recover wealth from >> Marcos because it would discourage other dictators from leaving their >> countries. > > I would grant them the asylum in the exchange for at least >significant part of the wealth taken from the country (and I am >talking about countries with friendly new regimes - why should we >do police work for non-friends). > > Leaving this option (to cut and run) open might save a lot of >blood in the final days of dictatorships. > > Alex Zatsman. Yeah, especially that of the dictator and his cronies. --Bapa Rao