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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Politics of Oxfam America (& Nicaragua)
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 00:59:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 00:59:19 1986
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> I am currently trying to determine whether the Sandinistas are the
> Good Guys or the Bad Guys in Nicaragua.  Any assistance will be
> appreciated.
> 
> Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes

So am I.  I've posted a number of articles condemning the Contras,
and I nearly went to Nicaragua (through TechNica) to help the
Sandinista govt.  I never admired the Sandinistas--indeed, I have
an implicit distrust of any government whose leader runs around
in a military outfit--yet I readily dismissed as right-wing
propaganda, or else forgave as fortunes of war, their excesses.
But then I read in a UPI news item, mostly dedicated to the
Sandinistas' complete shutting down of Radio Catolica (3 Jan 86):

	...Earlier Wednesday, [President Daniel] Ortega
	congratulated Yasser Arafat on the 21st anniversary
	of the Palestine Liberation Organization and
	expressed support for the Palestinians' "just struggle."

Well, gentle reader, if you are one of the folks I jumped on for
your condemnation of the Sandinistas, I do sincerely apologize.
The Sandinistas and the Contras deserve each other.  And neither
deserves any aid from anybody.  Not *the* bad guys, Richard.  Just
bad guys.  (Keep posting, Richard!  Your stuff is the most informative
and enjoyable--in that order--on the net, though I know that's not
saying much.)
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