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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Hypocrisy in action
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 14:00:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 14:00:36 1986
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> It's amazing, isn't it, how HMG are capable of making such a fine
> distinction between:
> 
>         A: An American incursion into a sovereign state to attack
>            'State-sponsored' terrorists.
> 
>         B: A South African incursion into 3 sovereign states to
>            attack 'State-sponsored' terrorists.
> 
> that they can support the first and condemn the second.
> -- 
>         Peter Kendell <pete@stc.co.uk>
> 

The U.S. Government also supported A and condemned B -- because
useful talks were underway to end ANC activities from those three
countries.  If Libya had been willing to work out an arrangement
to end terrorism, and the U.S. had bombed anyway, we would have been
in the wrong.

Clayton E. Cramer