Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: South Africa bogosity Message-ID: <897@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 20:43:18 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.897 Posted: Mon Nov 4 20:43:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 21:49:21 EST References: <80@ubc-cs.UUCP> <894@lsuc.UUCP> <84@ubc-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 16 Summary: really? In article <84@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes: > Now is the time to put sanctions on S.A., if only because the whim of >the media has turned to it as it turned to, say, Ethiopia as opposed to the >rest of the Sahel, or the TWA hostages as opposed to the other American >hostages in Beirut. When we've cleaned that area up to our satisfaction (:-), >maybe we'll be able to have a crack at the other African dictatorships. That would be a reasonable approach if there were any chance of us "having a crack at the other dictatorships". What's more likely is that if the current efforts succeed in destroying S.A. (which I doubt), we'll have created another such dictatorship. Would that be better? I don't know, but I don't think so. Dave Sherman -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave