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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Those crates
Message-ID: <1501@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 19:05:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 19:05:09 1984
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Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
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Summary: 

>>> > Well, the Reagan administration just admitted that there were not MIG 21's
>> > > on the Burkiana.  But that won't matter because the charge has served its
>> > > purpose-to put people into a warlike mood against Nicaragua.
>> > 
>> > 	I wonder why Reagan administration's admission that they were not MIGs
>> > 	didn't get as much coverage by the press as did his accusations
>> > 	earlier that they were.
>> > 
>> > 	Maybe that says something about the alleged "impartiality" of
>> > 	the American press.
>> > 								- raghu
>> 
>> Not only has the Reagan administration's admission gotten almost zero airplay
>> UPI just carried reports covered by both TV and newspapers repeating the
>> MIG charge and the Sandinista denial -totally omitting the Reagan administration
>> denial! ...
>>  
>> tim sevener whuxl!orb
>
>1)  I have not met one person that thinks that the MIG's exist.  Not one.
>I know many Reagan supporters, however.  Please, if anyone out there thinks
>Reagan was completely truthful, feel free to speak up.
>
	Ok, i'll speak up.  I've been watching, listening and reading
about the MIGs affair, including interviews with members of the administration
and representatives of Nicaragua.  Not once have i heard anyone in the admin.
say that there were MIGs on board.  Not once have i heard anyone in the
admin. say that there weren't MIGs on board.  Nor have i heard a member of
the media claim that a member of the admin. said either of these things.

	What they said was that boxes used to ship MIG parts were on the
dock next to the ship in Russia.  After a cloud bank passed, the boxes
were no longer on the dock.  Also, the ship went to the lengths of
going around the cape, rather than go thru the Panama Canal, where it
would have had to declare its cargo.

	[I heard the following, i believe, on CCN news] The media is
speculating that the MIGs were loaded, but then off-loaded in Libya.

	It's not surprising that an admission that was never made would
get zero air time.  But that's ok, since the charges that Reagan said
that there were MIGs on board and then said there weren't have served
their purpose - of putting the readers more in an anit-Reagan mode.

	sdcrdcf!alan