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From: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nicaraguans NOT Sandinistas, Cowards NOT Democrats
Message-ID: <274@garth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 17:14:10 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 17:14:10 1986
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Reply-To: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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In article <9957@ucla-cs.ARPA> ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>>If the Contras truly support *democracy* why did Arturo Cruz *refuse*
>>to participate in the 1984 elections despite repeated requests
>>from the Sandinistas and other opposition parties?
>
>He was applying common sense. He suspected that the elections would be
>manipulated by the Sandinistas (whether it actually happened or not is
>a different matter and totally irrelevant). He knew that by taking part
>in those elections, he would be legitimazing them, so he stayed out.

Is this to say that McGovern should have refused to participate in
the U.S. election of 1972?

					Baba