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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: Question about International Unix System V
Message-ID: <5989@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 09:09:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 09:09:43 1984
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		>> Actually though, as it happens, the reason that Unixes
		>> leaving the US have to be changed, is because of the
		>> Reagan administration's fear that we'll only go and sell
		>> the encryption algorithms to the Commies!
	>In order to solve the problem the U.S. must demand that it's allies
	>take full responsibility for their own welfare. I know this sounds
	>like a rather childish statement, but we have tried to play world
	>peace keeper.....
Wow, wow, wow! By sending the Marines, eh? By endangering the very existence
of humanity with your nuclear arsenal?

	>It burns me to think about the way I am taxed to subsidize a defense
	>system that is unwanted by the very people it is supposed to protect.
You state it correctly: "supposed".

	>What is wrong with moving the defense line back a bit?
A bit? It's being moved back to the point where the promotion and exchange
of science becomes impossible. Even cooperation between European and American
scientists is getting a problem; it's getting hard to get American speakers
on congresses etc. in Europe, because they *might* tell things that *might*
endanger US defense, if anyone amongst the audience *might* tell it to the
Russians. Oh dear, oh dear!
That's what the American paranoia is now leading to.

BTW, this should be moved to net.politics.
-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
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