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Article #8822Re: Civilians in space (Was Re: First concert from space--update)
From: Bob Gray
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 15:23
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 15:23
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In article <3015@eos.UUCP> steve@eos.UUCP (Steve Philipson) writes: >Soviets don't have that problem (yet), and their leadership can set >priorities and direct efforts to accomplish them with far less in the way >dissent. If they have an edge because of the differences in political >systems, we just have to chalk that up to part of the price of democracy. The first dissent is already showing. In the recent soviet elections, Boris Yeltzin was elected to represent Moscow with 90% of the vote. He was standing against the official Communist party candidate. One of his election promises is to cut the Soviet spending on space exploration and spend the money on housing or other public projects to improve the quality of life for the ordinary citizen. Sounds quite familiar. Bob.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!bob From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle,misc.misc Subject: Re: Civilians in space (Was Re: First concert from space--update) Message-ID: <1655@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 29 Mar 89 15:23:46 GMT References: <1885@randvax.UUCP> <10325@bcsaic.UUCP> <1989Mar22.054649.15822@utzoo.uucp> <3015@eos.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project Lines: 19