From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:11:28 +0800
To: froomkin@law.miami.edu (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law)
Subject: Re: [NOISE] ITAR Satellite
Message-ID: <199610040209.TAA03849@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 06:46 PM 10/3/96 -0400, David Lesher wrote:
>Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law sez:
>> 
>> Alas, a common fallacy.
>> 
>> You have committed a prohibited export when the stuff lands outside the
>> USA....It's not illegal when it goes up ("by reason of the launching" and,
>> e.g. *stays up* in orbit)  but it is illegal when it comes down abroad. 
>> 
>
>"I just shoots them, who CARES where they come down?
>It's not my department, said Werner Von Braun...."
 

No... not exactly.

"Vhen the rockets go up...
who cares vhere they come down...

That's not my department...
says Werner Von Braun."

Tom Lehrer.  1965.  "That was the year that Was."


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com