Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drux3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!drutx!drux3!trb From: trb@drux3.UUCP (BuckleyTR) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Selling them the rope with which to hang us... Message-ID: <1104@drux3.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 00:12:12 EST Article-I.D.: drux3.1104 Posted: Fri Mar 30 00:12:12 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Mar-84 08:30:39 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 19 ... Now here's a good one... "Socialist Prime Minister Olof Palme's Government has announced that Sweden will seek to defeat any Western nuclear counterattack against Soviet targets in the Kola Peninsula (SS-20 missile complexes, submarine pens, and military airfields) by shooting down U.S. Cruise missiles as they pass over Swedish territory from northern Europe. "It gets worse: To shoot down our missiles for the Soviets, Sweden is adapting Falcon radar systems manufactured by U.S.-based I.T.T. At least 24 Falcon systems have been ordered by the Swedes, and the first was delivered in January." From the New York Times Tom Buckley ...ihnp4!drux3!trb