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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?

almarst-2001 - 04:54pm Jun 27, 2001 EST (#6168 of 6171)

Arms Control Works - http://worldnews.about.com/library/weekly/aa060701a.htm

"In 1987, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty. Last week, the inspection portion of the treaty expired...and both sides celebrated victory."

almarst-2001 - 05:01pm Jun 27, 2001 EST (#6169 of 6171)

The Pawels' way - To be a "GOOD SOLGER";) - The FCC, Radio & Censorship: Defining Decency - http://www.fair.org/activism/fcc-decency.html

rshowalter - 05:04pm Jun 27, 2001 EST (#6170 of 6171)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Just got back from a meeting -- reading back.

almarst-2001 - 05:04pm Jun 27, 2001 EST (#6171 of 6171)

On Hypocricy: - http://www.fair.org/activism/boston-globe-iwf.html

"FAIR sent out an action alert on April 9 asking readers to contact the Boston Globe about the paper's apparent hypocrisy. The Globe had written an editorial (3/20/01) upholding the free-speech right of right-wing activist David Horowitz to place a racist ad in campus newspapers attacking the idea of slavery reparations. The paper told student editors and campus activists: "Far more dangerous than offensive ideas is their censorship, because censorship knows no ideology and will eventually muzzle the views of the minorities as well."

But as columnists Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman pointed out ("Focus on the Corporation," 4/3/01), the Globe itself recently refused to publish an ad critical of the Staples office supply chain for using paper made from old-growth forests. The environmental group that wanted to place the ad, Forest Ethics, says it was told that the paper would not print an ad that criticized Staples, a major Boston-based company, by name. The paper told Mokhiber and Weissman that it was uncomfortable with the way the group expressed its views.

Hundreds of activists sent messages to Boston Globe ombudsman Jack Thomas, asking him to explain why his paper lectures student journalists about the need to print any ad, no matter how offensive, while censoring an ad that might hurt its commercial interests. The response from Thomas: total silence."

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