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From: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Nicaragua
Message-ID: <1308@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 01:21:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  1 01:21:03 1986
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Reply-To: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics
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In article <746@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>> Any response to this 
>> that the Sandinistas are not democratic I suggest the respondent read
>> net.politics concerning the Ortega regime's 67% support in Nicaragua, perhaps
>> howver that is not democratic enough :-) (slightly forced smile here).
>They have elections in the Soviet Union as well.  I suggest you read a little
>more about the conditions under which elections were held -- you would
>see the "democracy" of the Sandinista regieme is highly questionable.

Once upon a time Chicago's elections would have made Nicaragua's look
squeaky-clean.  And the rest of the US has had its share of questionable
elections.

Nicaragua may not be perfect, but then we aren't either.  We've had
two hundred years of practice, and absentee ballots can still appear
out of thin air :-).

As they say in Chicago, vote early and often!
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