jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (12/22/83)
SENOR GENERAL ANASTISIO SOMOZA DEBAYLE
HEAD OF THE NATIONAL GUARD
SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES
PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY COMMITTE
PRESIDENT OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE
DELEGATE TO THE CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMON MARKET
LEADER OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY
HEAD OF THE FOREIGN FINANCE COMMITTE
CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC
EX-PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
GRAND MASTER OF THE ORDER OF "RUBEN DARIO"
SENATOR FOR LIFE
PROMOTER OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
PROMOTER OF AGRO-INDUSTRY
PRESIDENT OF LANICA AIRLINES
PRESIDENT OF MAMENIC SHIPPING LINE
CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL CEMENT COMPANY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF "EL PORVENIR" PLANTATION
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF "CENTRAL DE INGENIOS" REFINERIES
LEADER, FLAGBEARER, PROMINENT ONE, GUIDE, INSPIRED AND ILLUSTRIOUS ONE, SAVIOR,
SUPREME RULER, BENEFACTOR, UNIQUE LEADER, GLORIOUS ONE, TALENTED ONE,
MAN OF DESTINY, COUNSELLOR, ILLUMINATOR, WISE, VIRTUOUS, UPSTANDING,
INSPIRING, INTELLIGENT, REGAL, SERENE, PRUDENT, BUILDER, CREATOR,
HURRICANE OF PEACE, NEGOTIATOR, FUTURE PRESIDENT, REFEREE, ARBITER OF JUSTICE,
SUPREME COMMANDER, GENERAL IN CHIEF, FAMOUS ONE, MAGNANIMOUS AND GENEROUS ONE,
HIS EXCELLENCY, MOST EXCELLENT ONE, JUDGE, PREDESTINED, DISTINGUISHED,
RENOWNED, CHOSEN, VICTORIOUS, BRILLIANT, STRONG PERSONALITY, CLEVER, ORGANIZER,
PROTECTOR, STATESMAN, COMFORTER OF THE AFFLICTED, STATISTICIAN, WINNER, SWORD,
PACIFIER, POLAR STAR, MORNING STAR, GENIUS, RESTORER, EMANCIPATOR, LIBERATOR,
IDEALIST, LIBERAL, PLANNER, SOLID ACADEMIC BACKGROUND, MAN OF SCIENCE,
ENGINEER, HELMSMAN, PILOT, CAPTAIN, DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY, BASTION, BULWARK,
FORTRESS, BEACON, THE MAN, PALADIN, PATRIOT, DEMOCRAT, SAVIOR OF THE REPUBLIC,
GIANT, FIRST TAXI DRIVER (AND ALL "FIRSTS" EVER KNOWN OR IMAGINABLE),
SACRIFICED TO HIS PEOPLE, ALTRUISTIC, DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA, BACHELOR AD
HONOREM, CHIEF OF CHIEFS, INDISPUTABLE CHIEF, SUSTENANCE OF DEMOCRACY,
SUPPORTER OF LATIN AMERICA AND GREAT FRIEND OF NIXON
Senor General:
We read all these descriptions of you in your own newspaper, *Novedades*,
and have been underlining them every day up until Monday last, August 12.
In the name of any of these offices or qualities, we would like to ask you
to do something to stop the price of consumer goods from increasing, and to
make the rain fall.
Your humble servants, workers of the city of Managua,
Antonio Garcia, F. Cruz, H. Martinez
-- Telegram published August 1973 in *La Prensa*, a Managua daily
newspaper run by leaders of the moderate opposition and owned by
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro.
[Chamorro was assasinated by Somoza's orders in Jan 1978.
The Prensa has taken a hard turn to the right since then.
Most of its former staff now work for the moderate Nuevo Diario.
This article was reproduced in "Nicaragua" by Susan Meiselas.
-- Dr Mem]
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Dr Memory
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