Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: British Weapons Enforce Apartheit in South Africa Message-ID: <226@talcott.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 18:04:50 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.226 Posted: Fri Jan 11 18:04:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:56:27 EST References: <353@bonnie.UUCP> <159@abnji.UUCP> <2121@uw-june> Organization: Harvard Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.flame:7627 net.politics:6791 > >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). --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn