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From: paul@phs.UUCP (Paul C. Dolber)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Sandinistan democracy
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 12:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 12:55:09 1984
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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).