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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: San Juan del Sur (Re: Fair play for Nicaragua)
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 09:13:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 09:13:10 1985
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> 
> That's funny -- just this weekend I heard a funny story about San Juan del
> Sur from a minister and his wife from Clear Lake City, Texas, who were
> speaking about Witness for Peace, the organization that sends people to
> Nicaragua to observe the conditions there and the consequences of the U.S.
> war against the country.
> 
> When they returned from Nicaragua they gave a press conference in Houston
> talking about their trip.  A columnist for one of the Houston papers
> responded by listing San Juan del Sur as one of the places they "obviously"
> hadn't visited, because if they had they would have seen a 6000 ton drydock
> that the Soviets had built their for repair of spy ships cruising the U.S.
> West Coast.
> 
> Unfortunately, the journalist seemed to have some of his facts wrong: the
> group had spent several days in San Juan del Sur, had been all over the
> place, and had seen only what was there: a sleepy little town with a very
> minor port, lacking even docking facilities for ships of any size -- the few
> freighters that stop there must anchor out in the bay and unload their cargo
> into small open boats which transfer it to shore.  Needless to say, they saw
> no 6000 ton dry dock.
> 
> Of course, they wrote a letter to the paper, correcting the columnist; of
> course, the paper didn't print it.   When they finally reached the columnist
> by phone and asked him to explain himself, all he could say was that the
> Russians must have moved the drydock when they heard Witness for Peace was
> coming!
> 
> 
> --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
 
It has been reported in the New York Times that one of the next steps being
considered by the Reagan administration is banning all US travel to
Nicaragua.  That should take care of those "peaceniks" who go down to
teach the peasants how to read and report back on what they actually
*saw* in Nicaragua.  The same policy has been in effect towards Cuba.
Where are our civil rights? Is this a free country?
             tim sevener   whuxl!orb