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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response (on Nicaragua)
Message-ID: <1254@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 17:20:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  1 17:20:58 1985
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Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
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In article <7800726@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>Having sold the Nicaraguan people down the river with its aid to
>the Sandinistas, the US has an OBLIGATION to at least match that
>with aid to the resistance.

This is nonsense.  The Carter administration approved $75 million in
aid long ago, some of which was prevented from getting to Nicaragua
(I believe) after Reagan came to office.  The bulk of the aid was to
middle and upper class business groups.  Perhaps this is what you
mean by "selling the Nicaraguan people down the river"?  By aiding
business groups instead of a popular revolution?

If the U.S. has any obligation to aid the contras, it is only because
that force was created by the U.S.  However, this is more reason to
cut off all aid to the contras, and instead treat Nicaragua as a
sovereign nation, and resume bilateral negotiations with its government.
-- 
        Gil Neiger 
        Computer Science Department 
        Cornell University 
        Ithaca NY  14853 

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