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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on..  (Shooting Castro vs Reagan)
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 15:22:21 EDT
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>2. Ever think of what might happen to you down there if you shot Castro?

You would get shot, probably after a trial, but perhaps earlier.

>   Now think of happens to you in the US. Some difference, huh?


You would get shot, probably after a trial, but perhaps earlier.
(Think of Lee Harvey Oswald).

What's that got to do with the relative freedom of the leaders to
walk around among their people?  As for:

>1. I bet Castro doesn't go out without his security (even in a nation where
>   private ownership of guns -all guns- is banned). (here come the flames!!)

The fact that Castro can and does wander around more or less alone was a
point made by Dan Rather in one of his segments on Cuba a few months ago.
(I know -- you think he's a KGB agent, don't you?)

Another place were leaders can and do wander around alone is in West Germany.
I was myself in a beerhall/restaurant in Munich when Franz Josef Strauss
was wandering around glad-handing just after he won a big election victory.
His party left, and if there were security men around, they were very
un-evident.  He joined several tables for a swig of beer, and spoke to us
as well (but only in German).
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Martin Taylor
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