Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uicsl Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!pollack From: pollack@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua Message-ID: <11200002@uicsl> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 13:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: uicsl.11200002 Posted: Tue Oct 29 13:04:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 08:04:29 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> Lines: 38 Nf-ID: #R:nbires.UUCP:-53100:uicsl:11200002:000:1530 Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!pollack Oct 29 12:04:00 1985 How many times will this discussion of censorship of "La Prensa" go on? After the revolution it became a member of the "Inter-America Press Association", the same front organization which took over "El Mercurio" in Chile and started character assassination and psychological warfare against the Allende Government in preparation for the coup. The IAPA also took over "the Daily Gleaner" in Jamaica when the US wanted Manley out. It operates about the same way as Rupert Murdock: take over a conservative paper (NY Post, Chicago Sun-Times) and change format to a Tabloid with Glaring and Alarming Headlines, and show pictures of your enemies juxtaposed to pictures of mutilated bodies from unrelated stories. For good measure, throw in sightings of the Virgin Mary. (Who does Murdock work for anyhow? Mr. Black? :)) There WAS a Chomorro who was killed by Somoza; his nephew is just a figurehead, promoted to the board of the IAPA. Is Psychological Warfare warfare? If so, then the Sandinista's show remarkable constraint in not blowing up the newspaper and in even using precious foreign exchange to buy it pulp! The state of emergency in Nicaragua is a state of emergency, not Marshal Law. The civil rights suspended do not even exist in the Philipines, Chile, Guatamala, South Africa, or El Salvador. Nor do they exist in our great country for "enemies of National Security," like Puerto Rican nationalists. Jordan Pollack Next time Im in NY, I think Ill buy a few pairs of glasses and see if I make some Headlines!