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From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Dan Quayle on the Space Race
Message-ID: <315@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 20:25:14 GMT
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In article <45000017@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, ahiggins@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> Shortly after the November election, there was a rather drawn out discussion
> of Vice-President Elect Dan Qualye's stand on the civilian space program.
> I recently came across an article which makes him look like a 
> promising chairman of the National Space Council.
> 
> Quayle wrote an article entitled,"The Other Space Race:  Space Science
> Education," which appeared in the October 1988 issue of _Journal_of_Defense_
> and_Diplomacy_.  He seemed *very* well informed and made several insightful
> comparisons to the Soviet and Japanese programs.  

Of course, Mr. Higgins is a bit naive about the way that politicians and
other honchos operate.  There's absolutely no chance that Quayle wrote
this article, and I personally consider it debatable that he's even
*read* his "own" article...  

This article may indeed give insight into the
direction the program might go, since it was probably guided 
by the same Quayle staffers that will actually do the space program work,
but it's really naive to suggest that Quayle actually WROTE it, and
that it somehow reflects upon Quayle's knowledge or thought processes.
	
	gordon letwin
	microsoft