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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: SANDANISTAN DEMOCRACY
Message-ID: <343@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 08:59:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 08:59:57 1984
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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!david