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To: sandintoes who wrote (30053)	2/26/2005 9:41:40 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I don't know all the details about whether Clinton did or didn't authorize launch specifics. It smacks of treason if he did which is why I don't think he authorized the exchange

To: sandintoes who wrote (30053)	3/1/2005 1:43:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Don't know about Clinton's involvement. Do KNOW about Loral's. I was there at Loral. Engineers and techs WERE sent to China to straighten out the Long March guidance system problems. Prior to that, the missile would do things like go up a few hundred feet, turn over, start downrange, hit the hotel in the town next to launch base, and kill..... well, the Chines, after years of pressure, admitted to 6 dead. The westerners said hundreds, maybe thousands of dead. The Intelsat launch team manager (it was an Intelsat communications satellite on it) said that in general the Chinese procedures and base were so unsafe that Intelsat should never again put its people's lives at risk by going back. I have a copy of his report. The Long March- -coming to your city. With a few megatons. Bernie Schwartz, the CEO of Loral, was Slick Willie's largest individual contributor. He never spent a day in jail.