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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (377426)4/10/2008 3:09:23 PM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) of 1583392
 
Quite often, doing your own search work rather than just referring to your "Wiki Bible" does indeed yield additional facts.
Don't make it too easy on yourself, CJ. In particular not if you still want to play at the higher intellectual levels of this board.
That's where parrotting Wiki just isn't quite good enough.

Taro

"But the real, unreported scandal of 1980 was the sabotage of the Desert One rescue attempt. Helicopters were sent out over the desert without air filters; the sand and dust soon ruined their engines. Also, no backup or reserves were sent on this critical mission. The failure of this rescue mission prevented the rest of the plan from being carried out. Its success would surely have resulted in President Carter's re-election. Some think that the military-industrial complex was amply rewarded by the greatly increased spending of the Reagan-Bush administration.
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"Someone had removed some of the sand filters from the helicopters, and that is what led to their crash when, without filters, the engines clogged up.
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