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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: What Happened to Nicaraguan Jews
Message-ID: <1158@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 11:55:11 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.1158
Posted: Wed Mar 26 11:55:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 09:25:27 EST
References: <22300031@inmet> <16526@rochester.ARPA>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <16526@rochester.ARPA> goddard@rochester.UUCP (Nigel Goddard) writes:
>I recently asked about this when a Nicaraguan was staying with a friend of
>mine.  He said that he was not aware of any particular anti-semitic action
>by the Sandinistas.  He said that a large building housing offices concerned
>with the Jewish community in Managua had been taken over by the government
>after it was determined that the amount of valuable office space being used
>was not justified by the size of the community served, but that now
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>negotiations were taking place to return all or part of the building to the
>Jewish community.

Isn't it justification enough that the Jewish community OWNED the building?
I can sympathize with the Nicaraguan people's desire to rid themselves
of a corrupt president (as the American people did with Nixon), but that
is no excuse to allow Soviet sympathizers to turn the society upside down
in some kind of Marxist revolution.

	Frank Silbermann