don@allegra.UUCP (09/17/83)
Laura: Let me see if I have this straight now. Do you believe that Britain is training its army in Northern Ireland so they can be used to take freedom away back home when the evil Labour Party comes back into power? Do you also believe that Poland makes buildings out of nuclear waste? Since reactors only produce fairly small amounts of waste (hundreds of pounds a year?) it doesn't seem like a logical source of filler material. I guess they are just doing it to be nasty. Oh, those dastardly commies! Perhaps you are confused, and your friend was really talking about New Jersey. To be serious, I have two strong impressions from England. The first is that their tradition of democracy is older and more firmly established than almost any other country in the world. There is a lot of participation in local politics, and parties genuinely represent different classes in English society. Secondly, their economy has never been quite the same since they lost their colonial markets; however, their standard of living is quite high. One should also recall that at the height of their empirial era, the average working man had a very low standard of living.
laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (09/18/83)
No, you do not have me right. I do not know whether the purpose of the continuing wars in Northern Ireland is, from the british point of view, preparation for similar attacks on English citizens in England when the 'bottom finally falls out' of the English economy. However, it is current among the IRA supporters around here that I know, and has received some support from IRA haters around here as well. but I do not know. However, as well as I know anything that I have not conducted a personal experiment in, Poland DOES build houses out of nuclear wastes. And for that one you can ask the UN, becaue they know about it as well. The person who translated the original description from Polish into English is a friend of mine, and he got out the geiger counters to verify this. laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura
laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (09/18/83)
Oh, I forgot. these are not nuclear wastes, as in from reactors. these are nuclear wastes, as in "Russia just wants so much enriched uranium, and we produced lots more -- this will look bad, so dump it back into the mine, where there is gravel that is later used to make the bricks that go into the housing materials." At least that was the theory last summer about why the new housing was radioactive. it is interesting that the Phd sociology student in Poland (Polish) who discovered this in her study of how inefficiencies get glossed over in Poland, was told that she was no longer suitable as a Phd candidate and had all of her work confiscated. By that time, through my friend, a Canadian vistor to the country, it had already made its way back to the Western World, which is the only reason we are hearing about it these days, i presume. laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura