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From: devonst@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
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Subject: Re: Technical Travel to Nicaragua, Update #4
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 09:50:10 EDT
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michael@iris.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Tom Slone [(415)486-5954]) writes:
>
>tecNICA was formed during the Carter administration when the U.S. was
>not openly hostile to Nicaragua.  It was believed that the new
>government in Nicaragua was the only one in Central America which had
>any hope of providing reforms so badly needed in the region -- both
>land reform and human rights.  ...
                 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^

Oh, how wrong we could be ...  

Actually, when Carter was in office the Sandinista government had some 
outward suggestion of democratic tendencies (I guess that's why we gave them 
$200 million).  In early 1980 they thumbed their nose at the US and began to 
openly accept aid from the Soviets.  Many of the non-Marxists in the 
Sandinista movement quickly realized where the government was headed.  That 
was a time of real exodus by the technically competent from Nicaragua.

For all Carter's whining about human rights, he should have seen this one
coming.  He failed to appreciate that an imperfect pro-American government 
was far more desirable than a Marxist government.

--
Tom Albrecht