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From: lee@zymacom.UUCP (Lee Webber)
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Subject: Re: Technical Travel to Nicaragua, Update #4
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> Reactionary regimes have a vested interest in the status quo.
>	William L. Rupp

*All* regimes have a vested interest in the status quo, if that means
conditions that allow them to govern.  Most regimes, "reactionary" or
otherwise, want to change the way things are; otherwise, they wouldn't
bother to take power.  E.g., Hitler's Final Solution: hardly a
commitment to the status quo ante.  More locally, reactionary Pinochet
has recently changed the status of a number of his opponents from live
to dead.

Lee Webber