Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site phs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!duke!phs!paul From: paul@phs.UUCP (Paul C. Dolber) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Sandinistan democracy Message-ID: <933@phs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 12:55:09 EDT Article-I.D.: phs.933 Posted: Mon Sep 24 12:55:09 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:58:48 EDT Organization: Dept. Physiol., DUMC Lines: 30 From National Review, Oct 5, 1984, p. 20: "Tomas Borge, leader of the pro-Soviet hard-line faction within the Sandinista regime, told West German journalists that the prospects of the democratic opposition's winning in the upcoming elections equaled his prospects of 'boarding a spaceship and flying to Jupiter.'" Wow! What confidence! Wonder how he can be so confident? From Durham Morning Herald, Sep 23, p 2A (AP story): "About 2,000 Sandinista backers wielding machetes, clubs and chains broke up an opposition political meeting Saturday for the third time in a week... The pro-government mob surrounded a house in Masaya... and forced [opposition leader] Cruz and 50 supporters to leave, according to an [AP] photographer at the scene... Police on Friday rescued Cruz from some 300 hostile Sandinista supporters who broke up a political meeting in Roaco... On Wednesday, several thousand Sandinista followers trapped Cruz during a meeting at a school at Leon... and hurled stones and spit at him as he was led off by police." "The crowds are called 'divine mobs' because they have been publicly praised by government junta leader Daniel Ortega as an expression of people defending the Sandinista revolution." Ah, "divine mobs" -- no wonder Borge is so complacent, God's on their side. Regards, Paul Dolber @ DUMC (...duke!phs!paul).