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Re: Info on High-Power rocket launch: August '89 in Colorado.

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From: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1989 14:50
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Reading this announcement and description of activities brought to mind 
an interesting idea: We had been extensively discussing, in past months,
the possible use of those Pershing II missiles now being destroyed as
part of the arms-limitation agreements. What better PR for the Army than
to take one or two of those Pershings to this meet and set them off for
the entertainment of the attendees? This would also allow the budding
rocketeers to meet the Soviet observers and some of the actual hands-on
military missile people, so it would be good "glasnost" PR for the USSR
and a recruiting aid for the US. 

I guess the only thing that could give this a negative result is for the
Pershing(s) they take to be duds or to be defective... Since they don't
seem to have had any problems in destroying them up to now, that doesn't
appear likely. 

Hmmm... Maybe I should write this up as a DA suggestion...

Regards, Will Martin
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Subject: Re:  Info on High-Power rocket launch: August '89 in Colorado.
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