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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: diplomacy
Message-ID: <207@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:25:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:25:13 1984
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Ah yes, and let us not forget that famous quote from Keith Laumer's (sp?)
Retief series:

  "Diplomacy is the art of maintaining international (interstellar)
  tensions at a point just short of actual War...."