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From: gazit@ganelon.usc.edu (Salit)
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Subject: How large is a large lie (Was Re: Glasnost or Maskirovka)
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Date: 12 Mar 88 10:58:53 GMT
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>In article <7432@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu(Steve Goldfield) writes:
st>How do you explain the large number of Soviet Jews who applied to
st>go back to the Soviet Union after they saw what Israel was really
st>like?

In article <7461@oberon.USC.EDU> gazit@ganelon.usc.edu (Hillel) writes:
hi>Can Mr. Goldfield tell us how large is the
hi>"large number of Soviet Jews who applied to go back to the USSR"?

And now for the newest response:

In article <7605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
st>                                         Nobody has challenged
st>the fact that Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel and then requested
st>permission to return to the Soviet Union; they have only asked me
st>to supply a source, which I could if I wanted to spend my lunch
st>hour in the library with the NY Times index. 

I did not ask for sources, I asked for a number.  Why is it so hard for
Mr. Goldfield to type two or three digits and answer my question?

Hillel Gazit       gazit%ganelon.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu

Williams and Holland's Law:
   If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.