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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Myers on nrh on "untrue propaganda"
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Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 04:19:48 EST
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> Enough said, I think the reader gets the point about their credibility.
> 
Roger Re TELEVISA.

> >I argued that an EPS massacre of civilians is totally inconsistent with
> >recent Nicaraguan history -- Gil Neiger went on to point out the contra
> >practice (which they probably learned from the movie, *Where Eagles Dare*)
> >of dressing up in captured uniforms to commit atrocities, which makes a
> >great deal of historical sense.
> 
> But not in this case. The journalist asked them whether they knew for sure
> if the attackers were real soldiers and their answer was affirmative.

Did they see their dogtags?  My impression is that the contras are real
soldiers, too.  Again, did they say what village or area this occurred in?

> > A trip to Nicaragua Libre will
> >do alot towards breaking you out of the US powers-that-be paradigm, if
> >you will only take the chance.
> 
> Contra sympathizers have gone to Nicaragua and they have said upon
> returning that they will support even more strongly the contras.
> But of course, you and they are in no neutral position so if I wanted
> an objective report on Nicaragua, I wouldn't ask you nor them.
> -- 
>     Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department

That's why I encourage people to go for themselves and form their own
judgements.  Just about anybody reading this newsgroup has the economic means
to do so (or will soon after they graduate).

Now to your articles from the LA Times -- I'm glad to see people posting
sources more, not that I like being confronted with tales I like not.  Many
people are apprehensive about reports of detentions, etc. going on in
Nicaragua, because it is a sign that US foreign policy is starting to bear
fruit, the hardline position is getting stronger due to the continuation
of the war.  The FSLN in no monolithic entity, any more than any large
party is in any country -- but the basic problem the country faces has not
changed.

The LA Times is a paper I respect.  But then, I used to respect the New
York Times -- then they hired Shirley Christian.  My money will now be moving
to the Christian Science Monitor, which I have had a subscription to off and
on over the years.

Jeff Myers