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Subject: Re: Re: Milo's (and others) Mis-aligned Logic
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 15:32:32 EST
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Trying to compare the situation in El Salvador with that in Nicaragua
is nonsense. To those who still think the Nicaraguan government is not
really a Marxixst-Leninist dictatorship, let me tell you this:
  SIN (The spanish TV network) has a program every sunday called "Temas
y Debates" (Topics and Debates), a spanish version of "Face the Nation"
or "Meet the press".
  On the last program, one of the invited guests was the former director
of "La Prensa", the one and only opposition newspaper in Nicaragua. He
explained what censorship was. How he had to take the entire newspaper
every day to the censorship office where a lot of articles were banned.
We're not talking about articles against the Sandinista regime, just news
reports that the Sandinistas didn't want their people to hear about.
  He explained how the 1st grade students in school learn the ABC:
For example when they get to the letter F, where they used to have "Flor"
(Flower) with a picture of a flower, the offical school book now has
"Fusil" (rifle), with a rifle picture. For the letter P, they have "Plaza"
(plaza, town square) with a picture of people in a plaza holding banners
supporting the Sandinistas.
  To teach them how to count, they don't use apples or oranges any more.
They use rifles.
  These is for 7 year old kids. You get the picture. With the help of the
thousands of cuban teachers and advisors they are brain-washing their people
from a very young age.
  The Salvadorian government offered every opposition group including
the guerillas to participate in the elections. They didn't because they knew
they would loose big since the majority of the people support their
government.
  They were offered equal time media coverage. Did the Sandinistas do
the same ???
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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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