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From: berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman)
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Subject: Suppression of Dissent
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 09:38:41 EST
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    Shrill voices on the net (and the Washington) have pointed out the
dastardly suppression of dissent going on in Nicaragua today. But the
clearest indication of the mean Sandinistas stomping down on democracy
comes in a New York Times report this weekend:


    "More than 1000 business officials and landowners gathered here [in
Managua, Nicaragua] to denounce the Government, eat hearty lunches,
denounce the Government some more and then return home."
    "Their convention held in a private theater and attended by delegations
from all over the country passed without incident. No policement were visible,
and a handful of militiamen assigned to the small guard post across the
street seemed bemused as the well-dressed businessmen filed in and out."
              -NY Times 3/31/85 p.4


     Contrast this vicious manner in which the Sandinistas deal with
their opponents with the cordial tolerance that the Free World Democracies
---Chile, Taiwan, Phillipines, South Africa---display towards dissidents.

      To restore free-world democracy in Nicaragua is why 7000 US troops
will be going to war-games in Central America next month.

      
             
        Andy Berman