RE: OT You want underreported news...*** Request to stop thread * **

*** Request to stop this thread ***

This is an issue that will quickly degrade into NOISE (Is Too!!! Is
Not!!!).

This mailing list has a great signal to noise ratio, and I enjoy that.

So I am RESPECTFULLY requesting that this discussion be taken off-list.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net	
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moody, Danny M. [SMTP:DMoody@bridge.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:18 PM
> To:	'gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'
> Subject:	RE: OT You want underreported news...
> 
> > From: UsClintons@aol.com [mailto:UsClintons@aol.com]
> > 
> > > It isn't really much of a treaty.
> > 
> > Funny, most of the rest of the world seems to think so...
> 
> You mean the *governments* of those others countries think so...
> 
> Doesn't mean they're right.
> 
> > > 1.  It stops any use of nuclear explosions in space,
> > > for any reason...
> > 
> > This is already banned for both the US and all former USSR 
> > republics.	It was covered in a tready signed a long time ago 
> > (mid 60s I think).	Still in force as far as I know.  The new 
> > tready would not change the net effect on the US one bit.  It 
> > would just attempt to make OTHER countries abide by the same
'rules'.
> 
> But this rule is wrong.  Why not take the opportunity to change it?
> 
> > > 2.  It really doesn't ban anything, since there is an
> > > opt-out clause...
> > 
> > Any tready of such a massive scope would have a clause of 
> > this sort.	IIRCC this was inserted with US support/insistance.
> 
> Doesn't matter. It still leaves a gaping hole in it.
> 
> <rant deleted>
> 
> I really don't care why the Repubs rejected it, Dems supported it, or
the
> political infighting around it.  I made my own decision from reading
the
> actual treaty.  Like most treaties/laws, it's mostly a 'feel good'
> measure.
> 
> 
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