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From: andrew@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Andrew Fleming)
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Subject: Re: Nicaragua (Re: Air raid on Libya)
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Date: Sun, 11-May-86 11:36:25 EDT
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In article <767@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP writes:
>> 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

Yes I can read , write and form my own views on what America 
does in the name of its so-called freedom


					Andy