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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Nicaragua (Re: Air raid on Libya)
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 13:32:03 EDT
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> In article <574@dlvax1.datlog.co.uk> dc@datlog.UUCP ( David Crone ) writes:
> >Isn't it up to the Nicaraguan's what government they have. Any response to thi
> >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).
> 
> Neither can I see how this support for Ortega will change into demands for
> any *real* democracy (i.e. what's missing today), as long as the country is
> under constant threat from contras.
> 
> The US government seems to be very glad to spend money on establishing
> democracy in Nicaragua. Why not turn around when there is time left? Put
> those millions of dollars in health care and educational programs *in*
> Sandinista-land instead, and soon there won't be any need for communism.
> As things are now, Ortega is simply forced to rely on Soviet assistance.
> 

You seem to have the sequence backward.  The US government WAS very
helpful to the Sandinistas immediately after they took power -- it was
because of the totalitarian tendencies of the Sandinistas that our 
government stopped helping them, and started helping the contras.

> Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden

Doesn't anyone in Europe READ?

Clayton E. Cramer