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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: In the Name of God
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 14:54:28 EST
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> > 
> > Borge and compatriots were traveling to Russia and
> > praising them for such things as the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
>  
> I would like to see evidence to backup this assertion.  As I recall
> Nicaragua abstained from voting on a resolution condemning the Soviet
> invasion of Afghanistan in the UN.  Thus their official position was
> one of neither support nor condemnation.  Does anyone have substantiated
> evidence on this?  My own evidence on the Nicaraguan vote is my
> recollection, but I am confident my memory is correct.
>  
>              tim sevener  whuxn!orb

Yes, Tim, your memory is correct.  See last year's issue of NACLA Reports on
Sandinista Foreign Policy.

Also of interest in the realm of combatting disinformation is the current
issue of *The Nation*, which documents a serious error in Robert Leiken's
report in the *New York Review* with regard to a disturbance allegedly
caused by Sandinista youths at the Conservative Party convention.  They
reprint a letter sent by the head of the Conservative's youth section to
the *New York Review* (which it has thus far failed to print) explaining
what really happened: the youth section of the Conservative party was who
was causing the disturbance, arguing for the removal of certain party
officials allegedly bribed by the US embassy (who were removed).  This report
is verified by another (US reporter) source who was there at the time.

jeff m