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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: My article on Nicaragua
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 13:18:50 EDT
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PBS' Front Line installment on Nicaragua claimed I believe that 50% of
the Nicaraguan economy is private.

Do the Soviets think the Sandinists are Marxist-Leninists (many are
obviously Marxists of one flavor or another; read their public state-
ments)?  Does it really matter (for Soviet policy toward Nicaragua)?
According to Arkady Shefchenko, the highest Soviet official ever to
defect, in the early 60s, after careful scrutiny & much guessing,
Soviet officialdom concluded Castro wasn't even a Marxist, though his
brother Raoul was a Communist. That judgment didn't prevent Cuba from 
becoming an economic dependent of the USSR.