Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!gil 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 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 21:01:51 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <7800610@inmet.UUCP> Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 25 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 {uw-beaver,ihnp4,decvax,vax135}!cornell!gil (UUCP) gil@Cornell.ARPA (ARPAnet) ; gil@CRNLCS (BITNET)