whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) (08/09/90)
From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) [Note to moderator--I hope this isn't part of a flood of submissions noting the same things . . . --whh] There is an excellent (and timely) article in the August issue of "Scientific American" on the spread of missles in third world countries--particularly the Middle East and South Asia. Curiously there is an interesting statement in the article-- Industrialized countries began to realize how missle proliferation threatened their interests during the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, when Argentina used Exocet missles supplied by France to sink a top-of-the-line British cruiser. I'm sure the skipper of the Sheffield would be proud to know how large a ship he was commanding . . . (Do you think the authors might have confused it with the General Belgrano?) --Hal [mod.note: If so, they must have re-defined the term "top-of-the-line." - Bill ] ======================================================================= Hal Heydt | An earthquake is Mother Nature's Analyst, Pacific*Bell | "silent" pager going off . . . 415-823-5447 | whh@pbhya.PacBell.COM |