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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel
Message-ID: <851@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 21:44:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.851
Posted: Tue Sep 17 21:44:12 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 11:18:43 EDT
References: <7800427@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <7800427@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>> And could you please
>> review your analysis indicating the parallel between the govern-
>> mental structure of the USSR and Nicaragua? [ Jim Balter (ima!jim)]
>
>I cannot speak for Ari Gross, BUT if you ever see a country where
>pre-schoolers are militarized and singing slogans in sweet unison,
>you can bet your subscription to Pravda  :-)  that here is yet
>another implementation of a  familiar model of government.

Hey! When I was a little boy in public school, I was taught about how
our government was helping the Veitnamese with our neato army. This
teaching, of course, did not begin before we sang at least two slogans...

>The
>country can be called the USSR, nazi Germany, or Cuba, or Ni-
>caragua, and the slogans may differ, but the political structure,
>the "technology of power"  varies remarkably little.

I don't remember MY country being called any of those names... are you
sure the list is complete?

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX

"What? With her?"

-Adam from _The_Book_of_Genesis_


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