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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Those Crates Again
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 19:48:58 EST
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 >From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
 >The articles in the Times and on NPR
 >specifically refered to the Sandanistas traveling to EASTERN Europe.
 >This is NOT Europe in the general sense.  Yes, the Sandinistas stopped
 >in Prauge.  That is in Eastern Europe.  They then proceded on to
 >Moscow, to pay homage no doubt.  Both the Times and NPR pointed this
 >out.  Further, there were newsreels of the event on NBC and CBS.
 >The Sandinistas did not go shopping in any Western European country.
 >

Well, if they travelled to EASTERN Europe, they must be guilty.  Imagine,
talking to those (multiple expletives deleted).  What were there newsreels
of, Tom?  The Sandanista's "paying homage"?   

Oh, by the way, France announced this week that it is advancing several
million dollars worth of economic aid to the Nicaraguan government.  Remember,
it's the "Nicaraguan government".  Unless you want us to start referring to
American diplomats as "the Republicans."

 >As for the Sandanistas running around like chickens with their heads cut
 >off, getting ready for an invasion, what is the real reason?  

Ummmm......let me guess....the armed invasion supported by the CIA?  No? no.....
umm.....the huge U.S. military exercises in Honduras?  No?  ...ummm....the
U.S. invasion of Grenada last year?   No?   I give up.

 >
 >I would like to ask a question, Sevener.  Why is it that the Sandanistas
 >do not say to the world and the US in particular, "Hey, let's sit down
 >and talk about this.  No pre-conditions, let's just talk about our
 >differences."  The Contra plan is so full of pre-conditions that it
 >would take a King Solomon to unravel the strings.  If the Sandanistas
 >truely wanted to live and let live, they would be glad to make some
 >type of overture.  

Tom, they've signed the Contadora agreement, which the U.S. considered the sine
qua non of peace between the countries.  Once they signed, the State Department,
caught by complete surprise, all of a sudden announced that the agreement the
U.S. had been *pressuring* Nicaragua to sign was *inadequate*.  They are faced
with an undeclared war being waged with instrumental support by the U.S.  The
U.S. CIA published a instruction manual for terrorists operating against the
Nicaraguan government.  The U.S. is pressuring its Western allies not to supply
economic aid to Nicaragua, then criticizing the country for going  to the East
for assistance.  When Nicaragua files a suit in the World Court, challenging U.S.
policy as a violation of international law, the U.S. declares that, so far as
it's concerned, the Court doesn't have any jurisdiction.  (The Court, by the
way, has accepted Nicaragua's suit by a lopsided 15-1 vote.  The U.S. is now
faced with a decision on whether it will thumb its nose at international law.)

Now *who* should be making overtures?

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Mike Kelly