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Re: wacky polls (was Re: Incredible: German Peace March makes top TV commentators think!)

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From: Bruce J McDonald
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 1991 08:01
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In <AMANDA.91Feb3184336@ra.iesd.auc.dk> amanda@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:


>>>>>> On 1 Feb 91 17:52:12 GMT, horne@sapphire.idbsu.edu (cs354-
>>>>>> Broward Horne) said:

>Horne>         1)   HISTORICALLY, sanctions have been complete FAILURES. 

>Horne>                 Most Recent Examples
>Horne>                 a) China ( Tianamen Square uprising )

>What sanctions?  The sanctions that was dropped because 1 billion new
>customers was considered more important than a few hundred odd
>students?

>Horne>                 b) South Africa ( apartheid )

>Well, I guess US news media has no time for news from South Africa.
>Try to read an European newspaper about the latest developments in SA.

YOU should read a newspaper and not one from anywhere else than from the RSA
and maybe you'll understand that a combined strategy of civil disobedience,
selective sabotage ( in other words: war ), labour disobedience, and to a 
lesser extent boycotts resulted in the 'latest' developments.

Oh yes - All the while the 'world' was boycotting SA, Saddam Hussein was happily
trading oil for weapons possibly even past the August invasion of Kuwait.
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From: mcdonald@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Bruce J McDonald)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,alt.activism,alt.desert-storm,eunet.politics,sub.politik,sub.general,sub.kultur,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: wacky polls (was Re: Incredible: German Peace March makes top TV commentators think!)
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Date: 7 Feb 91 08:01:30 GMT
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