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From: dand@tekigm.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving the Promised Land
Message-ID: <950@tekigm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 16:21:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 16:21:09 1986
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In article <1601@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> 
> >	WEST BERLIN - Three East Germans swan across the Teltow canal, part of 
> > ...
> >	MIAMI - Two Cuban citizens and a Nicaraguan asked for political
> > ...
> >Long live the Great Socialist Experiment!
> >
> >Tom Albrecht
> 
> Gee, that's twelve people out of probably 1.5 billion (I dunno, China
> alone is 1B, USSR I assume .3B, SE Asia etc.)
> 
> Who's side are you arguing?
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Actually, with 1.5 billion people trying to keep them in, I'm surprised that
as many as 12 have gotten away. Seems kinds of interesting that the East
Germans couldn't just cross at a border station, and that the Cubans and
Nicaraguan got away only because a fluke technical problem landed them
somewhere where they could walk away. I understand that most Americans
enter East Germany at a border crossing; why do you suppose East Germans
can't enter the west the same way?

I'm not arguing for or against socialism. If the USSR, et al, are examples
of anything, they appear to be better examples of the failure of coercion
than of anything else.

Dan C Duval
ISI Engineering
Tektronix, Inc.

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