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From: maniac%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George W. Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Reliability of Ballistic Missiles
Summary: minor direction change...
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Date: 23 May 89 04:32:09 GMT
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From: maniac%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George W. Herbert)

In article <105868@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cramer@sun.com (Sam Cramer) writes:
>Cockburn functions as an apologist for the Soviet Union and other
>left-fascist regimes.  Speaking of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he
>said the Afghans "deserved to be raped."  He called human rights campaigner
>Anatoly Scharansky a CIA agent, and has been involved in attempts to smear
>Cuban human rights activists.
>Hardly what I'd call a reliable source.

With due regards for your viewpoint, I would like to point out that
a: sci.military is not a political forum and
b: these are political, not technical defeciencies in his writing.  He may 
	still be perfectly competent to talk about the technical aspects
	of military science, no matter what you feel (or I feel, and i agree
	with your assesment...) about his politics.
Remember, the bullets don't play political favorites.

george william herbert
maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu

[ mod.note:  In self defense 8-)  I'd like to point out that, for 
reasons unknown to me, Mr. Cramer's posting did not come to me, but
was instead posted directly to the group.  I don't think this was
a deliberate act on his part; perhaps overly-intelligent news
software is to blame.   This is the first and, hopefully, last time
anything like that has happened.  - Bill ]