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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <609@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 10:20:44 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.609
Posted: Mon Nov 11 10:20:44 1985
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Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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In article <7800610@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>Inadequate as it (La Prensa) is, it  is
>the  *only*  outlet  for  unofficial, non-servile information and
>views.  The authorities don't kill it outright, probably, for the
>same reason - it serves as a safety valve.
>
>		Jan Wasilewsky

Is this the reason that President Reagan allows what little oppposition
there is to him in the U.S. press?  To serve as a safety valve?  It
just might be the case that he believes in freedom of the press, as do
the Sandinistas.  Let us not forget that Nicaragua is in a state of
emergency (one more real than that which our president declared last
spring), and the Sandinistas are being given very little room in which
to practice what they preach.
-- 
        Gil Neiger 
        Computer Science Department 
        Cornell University 
        Ithaca NY  14853 

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