To: SeekAndFind
In the mid-1970s, Studebaker was part of the MLW-Worthington company in Canada. The company arranged to sell 25 locomotives to Cuba but the US objected. Trudeau protested against American interference and President Ford eventually backed down. Canadians pondered at what national security interest could be impacted by selling trains to Cuba. People imagined the sight of locomotives emerging from the water and chugging up Miami's beaches, trailed by high rooster tails of sand.
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10/21/2017 7:40:46 PM PDT by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: sparklite2
...The company arranged to sell 25 locomotives to Cuba but the US objected. Trudeau protested against American interference and President Ford eventually backed down. Canadians pondered at what national security interest could be impacted by selling trains to Cuba...Anything which advances the economy of an adversary is a hit on our national security. At that point they had not watched as Ronald Reagan won the cold war by bankrupting the Soviet Union.
The locomotives themselves would not lead the charge, but what the locomotives enabled them to make might.
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