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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Elections
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:33:08 EST
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In article <659@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) writes:
>
>Someone earlier said that the Mexican TV that they watched ended up
>concluding that the Nicaraguan elections were invalid, but didn't
>explain why the TV station concluded this.  Would this person please
>expand on his point?
>

They sent a press crew to cover the meetings and rallies prior to the
elections (both pro and anti-government). Whenever an opposition party
tried to held a public meeting they were disrupted by pro-sandinistas
and couldn't go on with their meeting.
  In some occasions the pro-sandinistas, armed with wooden sticks and
well organized, waited for the people who attended these meetings to
come out and beat them without any provocation. I saw this several times
on their news broadcast.
  Of course, this never happened in a pro-sandinista rally...
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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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