Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bu-cs!bzs
From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <512@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 17:00:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.512
Posted: Thu May  1 17:00:41 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 4-May-86 09:01:10 EDT
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
Lines: 16


>From: dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle)
>You are somewhat mis-informed then.  According to the Boston Globe
>of April 28, President Reagan had banned all trade with and travel
>to Libya.  What other economic retaliation could the US take???

Wall Street Journal, Friday April 25, pg 54:

...the State and Treasury departments also supported the Pentagon's
plan to award the contract for 178 tractors for the marines to Fiat
Allis which submitted the lowest of three bids. The company is the U.S.
unit of Italian Fiat S.p.A., which is 13.5% owned by the Libyan Government...

I dunno, maybe we all really are nuts.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University