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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: British Weapons Enforce Apartheit in South Africa
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 18:04:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 18:04:50 1985
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> >As well as manufacturing rubber/plastic bullets, Britain has a thriving
> >business in the manufacturing and export of implements of torture.
> >This is what Margaret Thatcher calls free enterprise.
> >JCA
> 
> Now your going to tell me that US has a lilly-white reputation in the
> arms business.
> 
> 		Ewan Tempero                     "Oh no, not again"
> 		...!uw-beaver!uw-june!edtking    
> 		edtking@washington

In absolute arms sales, the USSR has edged out the US in the 1980's, while
France is a distant third.  In arms sales as a proportion of GNP, the USSR
is moderately ahead of France, and the US is a distant third.  Thus,
although we've placed a good bid, we haven't won the gold medal in arms
sales.  Sorry I can't give precise figures, but the statistics are from
"The State of the World Atlas", by Micheal Kildron and some other guy
(it's done by a British publishing company).
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn