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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: West Berlin - Ronnie's or Mike's ?
Message-ID: <127@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 07:41:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 07:41:55 1986
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Reply-To: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Organization: Department of Computer Science at Strathclyde University, UK.
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In article <2500007@coma.UUCP> ao@coma.UUCP writes:
>How can we convince UCB, state (?) or federal (?) authorities
>that we are 'their' Berlin, and do not belong to the 'empire of evil'.

It's good ol' Ronnie who carries the can for this one. He has set up an
organisation called COCOM to prevent the commies getting equipment, software
and "know-how" from the US that they (the commies) could use for military
purposes. Fair enough you might think, but COCOM think the commies start
at the US border, so even "strong allies" like the UK, Canada, W. Germany
are similary affected by the embargo. A research project here has been held
up for about a year because we couldn't get the necessary software exported
from the US.

Nice to know the members of the NATO alliance trust each other, eh?

		Jim