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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Censorship Toughened in Nicaragua
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 14:34:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 15 14:34:25 1985
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I willl continue with the L.A. Times article on Nicaragua.

Censorship Toughened

  Government censorship policy has also been toughened since Oct. 15. Vivas
said censorship of the nation's Roman Catholic radio station "has turned more
rigid, more ironclad." Also, the Permanent Commision on Human Rights has
been told to stop distributing its mimeographed monthly reports.
  La Prensa, the only opposition daily newspaper, has been prohibited from
passing around photocopies of articles censored out of the paper. And the
amount of material censored "has increased tremendously, from 40% to 60%"
of total news content, La Prensa editor Jaime Chamorro said in a recent
press conference.
  The Government suspended publication of the newspaper for two editions
because Camorro passed out copies of censored articles at the news conference.

[ I recall that in a recent net discussion about censorship in Nicaragua,
defenders of the Sandinistas argued that it was ok since La Prensa was allowed
to publish the censored articles. Well, now that they are not even allowed
to distribute them by hand, what do YOU have to say? ]
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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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