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From: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Soviet space leadership + confused US public
Message-ID: <3981@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 02:32:22 GMT
Reply-To: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
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In article <7700@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:

: * We have run this into the ground in sci.space, but let me reiterate
:   just this once in honor of the launch: With Energiya and Buran and
:   Soyuz and Mir all operational, the Soviets are BEATING US TO A PULP
:   in space.  

I caught a few seconds of James Oberg on the MacNeil-Lehrer Report the
other night, and I'll be damed if the interviewer didn't ask him 
"Dr. Oberg, with this new Soviet space ship (!) operating now, aren't they 
getting close to running neck-and-neck with us in space?"  I never did
like Oberg much, and he fell several notches in my esteem by giving her 
some bullshit answer that evaded the issue entirely.

I should add that I saw only the last minute or so of the segment, so 
the rest of it might have been more realistic, but I doubt it.

Michael Sloan MacLeod  (amdahl!drivax!macleod)