berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman) (04/05/85)
>> "More than 1000 business officials and landowners gathered here [in >> Managua, Nicaragua] to denounce the Government, eat hearty lunches, >> denounce the Government some more and then return home." >> "Their convention held in a private theater and attended by delegations >> from all over the country passed without incident. No policement were visible, >> and a handful of militiamen assigned to the small guard post across the >> street seemed bemused as the well-dressed businessmen filed in and out." >> -NY Times 3/31/85 p.4 >> >> Andy Berman --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Times also reported in 1957 how Krushchev allowed "A Day in >the Life of Ivan Denisovich" to be published. So much for all those >stories about the U.S.S.R. being less than democratic! > >Jim Matthews >matthews@harvard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Or how about the "Hundred Flowers" movement in China. >>> Bill Laubenheimer >>> UC-Berkeley Computer Science -------------------------------------------------------------------- The point, however, is that NICARAGUA, in the face of massive economic and military attacks tolerates political dissent to an astounding extent. That's what the New York Times is saying. Our misguided friends from Harvard and Berkeley (alas, once oases of progressive thinking) fail to look upon Nicaragua in the context of Latin America. The Sandinistas may have indeed sinned. But don't hang the sins of other nations, other revolutions on their shoulders. Take the time to learn a little about Central America. There may not be 2-S draft deferments this time around! Andy Berman -------------------------------------------------------------