brener@milrat.DEC (09/26/84)
It's hard to believe what you read in the press concerning such governments as the Sandanistas. The press is very pro-capitalist, after all they are certainly big-business, very often multi-national and must favorably satisfy their advertisers ( i.e. the multinationals). For example, a friend of mine was in Nicaragua observing a Good Friday parade, it was billed in the (Cal- ifornaian) press as as Anti-Sandinista rally, needless to say they new it was an intentional distortion. Two other friends went to the past May Day Parade in Managua where they were surrounded by 30,000 enthusiastic supporters (ac- cording to them), this was however reported in TIME magazine as 4000 unenthusiastic supporters. The press ritually distorts the truth to promote its ideology, and to think that they are in the business to provide the average citizen with the truth is simply naive. When hoses are turned on protesters in Poland it is billed as a cowardly terrorist action, but when another massacre happens in Guatemala barely a peep is heard.
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (10/02/84)
I have a serious question.
Sugar imports from Nicaragua are banned, yet I can still buy
Nicaraguan bananas. If the purpose of the sugar embargo is to weaken
the Nicaraguan economy, is this not a contradiction?
Are bananas excepted since there is no US banana industry to protect,
and gain votes for Reagan? Will someone PLEASE explain the rationale
for this discrepancy?
David Rubin
{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!davidlkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) (10/05/84)
David Rubin asks why sugar imports from Nicaragua are banned,
but banana imports are not.
The fact the a close friend of one of Reagan's top advisors
(Deaver I think) has cornered the US market for Nicaraguan bananas might have
something to do with it..
(Yes, it really true!).
--
larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)
UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk
ARPA: lkk@mit-mcrenner@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/14/84)
> David Rubin asks why sugar imports from Nicaragua are banned, > but banana imports are not. > > The fact the a close friend of one of Reagan's top advisors > (Deaver I think) has cornered the US market for Nicaraguan bananas > might have something to do with it.. > (Yes, it really true!). > -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) An interesting charge. Now let's see the documentation. You *do* have some evidence for your claim, don't you? Or did you just read it on the men's room wall? Scott Renner {pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!renner