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!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.med,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Milk in Sudan and Ethiopia Message-ID: <349@talcott.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 11:28:15 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.349 Posted: Sun Mar 10 11:28:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:45:35 EST References: <3440@alice.UUCP> <1222@aecom.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 20 Xref: linus net.med:1179 net.politics:7288 > If you want to flame, however (this is net.politics, of course you > want to flame), flame on the Russians. They sent: > 1. Rice - which traditionally Ethiopians don't eat. > 2. Canned meat - which is indigestible in people suffering malnutrition > 3. Military Hardware, of which some trucks were used for food. > (Actually, give the Russians credit for the last one. They ensured > that US and western grain would be traveling in vehicles emblazoned with > the Hammer and Sickle. Pretty good propaganda coup, if I say so myself.) ... > Craig Werner No, no, you forgot something. The Russians also sent Cubans. The Cubans weren't very good for eating, especially since they also had guns to defend themselves. On the other hand, the Cubans brought with them ammunition, which has lots of minerals and is in fact quite filling. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.