DeTomaso Mailing List: July 98, Message #58

> Can you name this country?
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> Interesting Statistics !!!!!!! 
>   - 709,000 regular service soldiers; 
>   - 293,000 reserve troops; 
>   - Eight standing army divisions; 
>   - 20 air force and navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft; 
>   - 232 strategic bombers; 
>   - 13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear 
>   warheads on 232 missiles; 
>   - 500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads; 
>   - Four aircraft carriers, and; 
>   - 121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support 
>   bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such 
>   a naval force. 
>   Is this country Russia?  No, 
>   Red China ?              Nope. 
>   Great Britain ?          Hardly ! 
>   Give Up?  Well, don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify 
>   this global superpower because this country no longer exists. 
>   It has vanished. 
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>   These are the American military forces that have disappeared 
>   since the 1992 elections. 
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