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From: alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: High Frontier
Message-ID: <852@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 16:58:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 16:58:53 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 06:56:20 EDT
Organization: U.C. San Diego; freelance writer
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Why are those people opposed to High Frontier so adamantly against any
form of space defense?  Don't know about you, but I'd rather be able to
defend against some nut like the one that runs Libya than not defend at
all.

The American people might well agree with me, if they knew we had no
defense at all.  Most still think that SPRINT and SPARTAN still are up &
running.

How does it feel to live in a country that, with six months' notice,
still couldn't shoot down an incoming warhead?

Alex