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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nicaragua - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 9-Sep-83 22:35:21 EDT
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Sep  9 13:45:00 1983

   Even our own government admits that arms shipments from N. to El Salvador
have been minimal since at least the beginning of the year.

   The U.S. has had border patrols, sea patrols + spy planes in that area, but
they have not uncovered a well docuemnted shipment of weapons to El Salvador.
   I don't doubt that N. ships arms to El Salvador -- I don't even think that
it's terrible that they do. However, I do object to this attitude that if you
repeat something often enough, evryone will believe it's true.

   Now, a documented fact, on the other hand, is the fact that the Salvadorian
rebels buy most of their weapons from the El Salvadorian government through
corrupt officials and soldiers.