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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Sandinistas and Human Rights
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 09:38:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 09:38:32 1985
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> 
>   Of course it's different !!. Clearly, you have no idea what is it like
> to live under a military dictatorship, where the government controls all
> the media. You think the opposition candidates were able to hold debates
> with the sandinistas on TV or criticize the government in TV/Radio/newspaper
> ads?. No such thing.
> -- 
>     Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
>     ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell

Actually opposition parties participating in the election were each
given a certain amount of television time equal to that provided for
the Sandinistas.  Of course this does not mean that the Sandinista government
could not dominate the media in other ways, any more than whomever is
President in our own country can dominate the media without paying for
explicit advertising time.  Allowing access to the media for all groups
is a very crucial issue for democracies in the electronic age, our own
democracy included.
I am afraid you are wrong to say the opposition did not get the chance
to debate or appear on Television.  The fact is that regardless of what
you or I "think" the opposition could debate on the black box.
         tim sevener  whuxl!orb