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From: pollack@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 13:04:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 13:04:00 1985
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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!