Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <7800641@inmet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 21:08:00 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.7800641 Posted: Mon Nov 4 21:08:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:21:15 EST References: <7280@ucla-cs.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:ucla-cs:-728000:inmet:7800641:000:965 Nf-From: inmet!janw Nov 4 21:08:00 1985 The following is from "The Economist", Oct. 19, describing the situation in Nicaragua as it was before the October 15 decrees: ] The private businesses that are still allowed to operate mostly ] buy from and sell to government agencies. The identification of ] the Sandinist movement with the state is close: there is a San- ] dinist army, a Sandinist police force and a Sandinist television ] news program, and "Sandinism" is taught in schools and universi- ] ties. ] The leader of the small Liberal Party, Mr. Virgilio Godoy, who ] has tried hard to work with the Sandinists and formerly served as ] their labour minister, said recently: ... ] ] People worry that if they do anything, the army will take their ] ] son, or their business will be closed or some import will be con- ] ] fiscated. We cannot get people out of their houses to a rally ] ] because we cannot give them a guarantee that nothing will happen ] ] to them afterwards. Jan Wasilewsky