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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?


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lunarchick - 08:46am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5930 of 5937)
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Putin v Oligarchs

    That's the stick Putin wields--that he could, in effect, re-nationalize what the oligarchs looted from the state. Bashing the businessmen would certainly be popular politically. The Russian people seem to like Putin's recent war against the oligarchs http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25938-2000Jul22.html

rshowalter - 08:58am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5931 of 5937) Delete Message
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Putin's got a tough job there -- and with respect to press freedoms, too.

If he's as careful and concerned about moral rights and wrongs with the oligarchs, as almarst has been, on issues concerning press freedoms, on this thread, he may do very well, in the situation as it is. With results that actually work for the people involved, according to reasonable standards of efficiency, balance, and justice.

lunarchick - 09:02am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5932 of 5937)
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Reading between the lines (above) it seems that Putin would benefit from communicating CLEARLY to his public with regards to the ACTION hs is taking, and the WHYs and WHEREFOREs as to each move - re the improvement of the Russian situation.

lunarchick - 09:03am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5933 of 5937)
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Photos-week in review slow loading!

lunarchick - 09:43am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5934 of 5937)
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http://www.dawn.com/2001/06/24/int12.htm Setting aside as inconsequential a controversy raised by the Indian defence ministry identifying China's missile programme as having caused its own enlarged missile deployment, India and China agreed to have an expert-level discussion on their boundary dispute

lunarchick - 09:48am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5935 of 5937)
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According to experts, besides causing massive deaths, radiation effect of nuclear explosion could also lead to nausea, bloody diarrhoea and haemorrhages within a few days. It could also result in leukaemia, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer, as well as non-fatal diseases such as birth defects, cataract, mental retardation in young children and more.

It is the right of the people to know what will be the impact of the 'hypothetical bombing' on the industrial city of Karachi where several thousand industries are located with almost 13 million populations.

I was amazed to read that when the Americans came to Bikini Islands in the Pacific Ocean in 1946 and told its chief that they were "testing these bombs for the good of the mankind" http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/science8.htm

lunarchick - 09:49am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5936 of 5937)
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&

    Another effect of nuclear tests in the Pacific by the US, France and the UK was that women gave birth to things like 'octopuses', 'apples', 'turtles' and 'jellyfish' babies, with no legs or arms or head, and their brain and hearts could be seen through their transparent skin.

rshowalter - 10:47am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5937 of 5937) Delete Message
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD4753 rshowalter 6/11/01 2:47pm .. reads in part:

"Some background to the feature on Dark Side of U.S. Quest for Security: Squalor on an Atoll by HOWARD W. FRENCH http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/world/11ISLA.html

"If the US has been merciless with the natives, as it has -- it was also ruthless with its own soldiers.

MD1823 rshowalter 3/31/01 8:12am ... : 235,000 U.S. servicemen were exposed to nuclear weapons testing during military duty. The people who gave the orders knew there were risks, but wanted numbers.

"The US record of denying responsiblility for the damage done to American lives is one example, among many, of how brutalizing the Cold War was, and continues to be. We need to put the Cold War behind us.

THE LONG DEATH by Marge Percy from Circles in the Water , A.A.Knopf. Inc http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/758

People are trying to put the Cold War behind us -- and the work on this thread shows some of the committment that some people feel. At that level, gisterme , almarst , lunarchick , and I share much common ground.

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