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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP
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Subject: Re: West Berlin - Ronnie's or Mike's ?
Message-ID: <799@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-May-86 13:17:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 13:17:42 1986
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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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

Restrictions on export of military goods (and even things that might be
used for military purposes) predate President Reagan by years.  Please
learn a little history before you say utterly false things.

The problem isn't lack of trust of our NATO allies -- the problem is 
Soviet bloc countries purchasing items through "fronts" in other countries.
This problem exists here as well.

Clayton E. Cramer