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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Elections in Nicaragua
Message-ID: <1251@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 17:01:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 17:01:32 1984
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> ================
> >Hmm.  Yes, I suppose that external aggression tends to unite a country's
> >people, as evidenced by the recent elections in Nicaragua, which have been
> >conclusively shown to have been fair (from all I have read, e.g. the New York
> >Times).
> >
> If by "fair," you mean the ballots cast were cast by people entitled
> to vote and were counted correctly, I might agree with you.  
> 
> But the accounts I have been reading allege:
> 1.  many people did not vote for fear of harassment, exile, or being
>     killed.
> 2.  many who did vote did so out of fear of harassment, exile or being
>     killed if they could not show that they had voted.
> 3.  many who might have run in opposition to the Sandinistas were
>     killed
> 4.  many who might have run in opposition to the Sandinistas did not
>     do so out of fear of harassment, exile, or being killed
> 5.  many who did run in opposition to the Sandinistas were killed or
>     had their campaign meetings disrupted by armed thugs
> This does NOT fit my definition of fair elections.  P.S. No, I don't
> know what "many" means & I probably wouldn't believe anyone, even
> myself, who said he had firm numbers.
> 
> -- 
>                                        Blessed Be,
> 
>  jhull@spp2.UUCP                        Jeff Hull
> ================

You mis-read.  (S)he said Nicaragua, not El Salvador.
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Martin Taylor
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