From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	wait a second
Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 1996 20:29:18 -0800 (PST)

Brian, we've got to clarify some stuff here. Amazonia is not going to be
finished with La Paz that quickly. In fact, the diplomatic repercussions of
the incident are _nowhere_ near over. To be explicit, the base isn't
coming back quite that easily. I'm in the process of writing up a follow-up
to yesterday's Novacek report in which the remaining Maxim personell will have
been returned to neutral territory (read: deported) but Maxim is _by_no_means_
going to resume operations that easily.

What we need to figure out, actually, is whether or not Amazonia will try and/or
succeed in freezing all Maxim assets in the region. At the moment, Amazonian
troops have been dispatched to all other Maxim installations, and are prepared
to move in en masse. What we have here is little less than an act of war to
one of the most environmentally-conscious countries in the world.

There are several different eventual outcomes I might see, including
- eviction of all Maxim R&D and retension of only local warehouses
- eviction of Maxim, completely
- eviction of Maxim with all assets in country taken over by the government

and other scenarios. But things aren't simply going to die.
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