[net.politics] Reagan says Nicaraguan election a sh

andrew@inmet.UUCP (07/27/84)

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inmet!andrew    Jul 26 23:32:00 1984

> From the Chicago Tribune, July 20, 1984, by Storer Rowley of the Trib:
> 
> COLUMBIA, S.C. - President Reagan told a summit of 15 Caribbean leaders
> here Thursday that the U.S. invasion of Grenada turned back a "communist
> power grab," ...  He also denounced an election scheduled for November
> by the leftist government of Nicaragua as "a Soviet-style sham election."

Well, Reagan is certainly qualified to recognize a "sham election" when he
sees one... after all, he (with some help from the CIA) just finished one
in El Salvador!
 
Andrew W. Rogers		...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew