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From: matthews@harvard.ARPA (Jim Matthews)
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Subject: Re: Suppression of Dissent
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 15:50:26 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
>              
>         Andy Berman

	The Times also reported in 1957 how Krushchev allowed "A Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich" to be published.  So much for all those
stories about the U.S.S.R. being less than democratic!

Jim Matthews
matthews@harvard