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From: varol@cwi.nl (Varol Akman)
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Subject: Re: Ho-hum
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 05:14:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 05:14:30 1987
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Summary: Sweet dreams are made of this...

In article <248@ers.UUCP> nmm@ers.UUCP (Neil McCulloch) writes:
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> [material deleted]
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>But let's get it straight, Soviet citizens do travel anywhere, for all
>kinds of reasons, not simply Soviet Government business. The fact that
>you must apply for a passport which has limited applicability differs only
>in degree from the procedures in the West.
>
>Given the state of the Soviet economy, the number of people able to
>travel is perhaps low. I suspect also that controlling foreign exchange
>is a major reason why foreign travel is closely controlled. Many non
>communist countries also impose foreign travel controls.
>
>Neil

Dear Neil,

If you could kindly give me an address I would like to send you as a present
THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING by Milan Kundera.  Kundera is not really
talking about Russia but ``what a difference a name makes'' huh?

Varol Akman
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam

It is perilously easy to conclude that, because one has a program which
works (in some sense), its representation of knowledge must be more or
less correct (in some sense). Now this is true, in some sense. -- P. Hayes