On Fri, 23 May 1997, Francois Bruntz wrote:
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> >> On the other side of the world? Oh, I didn't notice that you were
> >> Australian. How lucky you are!
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> >When various European terrorist groups aren't blowing up ships in our
> >part of the world, yes. :)
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> Oups! You're going to be very "desagreable"!
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> >> Here, at Paris, it's rainning, I hope
> >> that you've got sunny weather in Australia!
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> >Yes, no radioactive fallout now for many months. :) again! Actuellement,
> >it's Winter here, so the temperature is in the range 5-15 in Canberra.
> >We're in the mountains, not far from the Snowfields (which are about the
> >size of Alsace, Lorraine, Normandie, Bearn and Languedoc put together).
> >Also, there's a drought at the moment. We've had less than 16mm of rain
> >in the last 60 days. So it's cold and dry. Usually its colder and foggy
> >at this time of year.
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> I understand that you were not very happy with our nuclear tests...
> There only one thing that I must say : when the United States did HUNDREDS of
> tests, noone
> said that it was a "scandale"! It's not fair! Great Britain and Japan made some
> tests too... Jacques
> Chirac's choice was very hard : on one side nuclear tests were not a very good
> idea in terms of ecology but on the
> other side it was our defence that was in the balance...
> But once again I understand very well that Australia did not like these tests.
> I'm sorry for the troubles...
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Err...could someone explain to me how these ridiculous tests are supposed
to be so critical for your "defense"? If you've got the bomb, why do you
need to keep testing? After the few 20 or so megatons aren't you pretty
much squared away for MAD (at least European-theater mini-MAD)? And don't
you think the continents a bit too small to be flinging tactical nukes
about? God help us (and I am not religious), it's more froggie trouble.
E. Sund
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> >I did, very good.
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> Merci beaucoup!
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> >Hope you're not offended by the mentions of l'affair Greenpeace. The
> >Legion Etrangere's actions in Bosnia and Iraq have more than made up for
> >the stupidities of the DLG. So we're friends again, Thank God! At one
> >stage I had to help draw up some contingency plans in the event of war
> >with France. Very, very bad, a lot of former friends and allies would
> >have been killed, as well as many on our side.
> >Did you know that there are more French soldiers in the Pacific than in
> >the combined armies of Australia and New Zealand put together?
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> I agree that l'Affaire Greenpeace was a great stupidity of our services...
> Why do you speak about war? I hope that there will never be a war between France
> and Australia,
> you're are one of our allies, aren't you?
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> A plus!
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> Francois Bruntz
> Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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Received on Sat May 24 1997 - 06:07:21 UTC