Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes From: carnes@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: What is a Nicaragua? Message-ID: <240@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 15:23:41 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.240 Posted: Thu Nov 29 15:23:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:16:02 EST Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 31 --- Some of you misspell "Sandinistas" as "Sandanistas", thus revealing that: 1. Television is your sole source of news. 2. You either don't know who Sandino was or don't know that the Sandinistas take their name from him; hence you don't know the first thing about them. Or do you think their hero's name was "Sandano"? Some of you have also had trouble spelling Somoza and Nicaragwa--- Nicaraugua---oh well, it's one of those banana republics, they're all the same anyway. Recently we have been treated on the net to the "Contradora" agreement. No doubt this refers to the contras' plan for peace in Central America. Paging Henry Kissinger.... A mild suggestion: 1. Become a regular reader of a good newspaper or newsmagazine. 2. Find Nicaragua on the map. (Hint: It's very close to Washington, D.C.) 3. Amaze your friends with your newly acquired knowledge of Central America. Richard Carnes ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes