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- From: chrisb@seachg.uucp (Chris Blask)
- Subject: Re: Canadian Peace Keepers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.180406.8116@seachg.uucp>
- Reply-To: chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask)
- Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1glaetINNoil@meaddata.meaddata.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:04:06 GMT
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- In article <1glaetINNoil@meaddata.meaddata.com> andyw@meaddata.com writes:
- >I got this from an AP story a week or so ago, just got around to posting it.
- >
- >Quoted without permission.
- >
- >Canada Keeps the Peace:
- >
- >Canada is increasing its peacekeeping commitments even as it shrinks the
- >military to provide a post-Cold War peace dividend. Canadian soldiers
- >are under fire in Bosnia, helping separate beligerents in Cyprus and on
- >the lookout in the volatile Middle East. Although Canada's army ranks only
- >100th in size, it soon will have 4100 peacekeepers on duty on four continents.
- >The government is doubling its force in the former Yugoslavia to 2,200 and
- >750 are scheduled for deployment to Somalia. Peacekeeping does not come
- >cheap. The mission to Somalia and dispatching more soldiers to the Balkans
- >have sent the Defense Department scrambling to find $75 million more than
- >it expected to spend. "You can't play hardball with a slow-pitch budget",
- >says Maj. Gen Lewis MacKenzie, a former U.N. Protection Force commander.
- >
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- Ya' gotta be proud, eh?
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- -chris blask
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- (and no shady ulterior motives to worry about, we're just nice folks!)
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