It's hardly rocket science to suggest that people will be turned off by such a complex proposition.

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One of many bad ideas emerging as the Bush administration aligns itself ever more closely with the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev is the proposition that the United States should help the Soviet central authorities convert some of their military-industrial complex to civilian uses.

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