Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax!fdc From: fdc@cstvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya Message-ID: <98@cstvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 10:45:28 EDT Article-I.D.: cstvax.98 Posted: Wed Apr 23 10:45:28 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 1-May-86 03:25:38 EDT References: <157@unido.UUCP> <858@ihlpl.UUCP> <891@harvard.UUCP> Reply-To: fdc@cstvax.UUCP (Frank Cringle) Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland Lines: 26 In article <891@harvard.UUCP> tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill tomczak) writes: >How do you imagine >Europeans felt while the Axis powers overran their own coutries? Okay, >they're scared, it's entirely possible they have more at stake. I doubt that fear is the prime motive of most Europeans who feel that the bombing was not too smart. Maybe they feel that throwing rocks at a hornet's nest isn't the most effective way of dealing with the problem. I realise that no effective action has been taken on this side of the Atlantic, but that is no justification for counterproductive indulgence. As for fearfullness, today we hear that those well known trademark holders, AT&T, have canceled their participation (as largest exhibitor) at the British Electronics Week show due to start in London in 3 days. Embarassed European AT&T spokespeople are explaining that head-office does not want to expose their personel to the rampant terrorism over here. Sounds like some US executives have spinal problems. We are also hearing of people switching from European to domestic vacations for fear of terrorism. I suspect that the chances of being murdered in Miami or gobbled by a grizzly in Yellowstone are higher than those of meeting a crazed Libyan in Europe. -- Frank Cringle, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Edinburgh UUCP: !ukc!{hwcs,kcl-cs,ucl-cs,edcaad}!cstvax!fdc JANET: fdc@UK.AC.ed.cstvax or fdc@UK.AC.ed.ecsvax