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"miskitos" refers to SOUTH END and CONTRA TERROR and to (re
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"Compared to the statements and actions that are coming out of
Washinton, it seems they must be using our reports as toilet paper...
WE've pointed out the distortions time sna time again and been totally
ignored or told to shut up."

--U.S. Embassy offical i Nicaragua, April 1982

[1]Kornbluh, _Prince of Intervention_, pp. 174, 259, fn. 63, citing
_Boston Globe_, April 20, 1982.

"During a visit by a group of U.S. citizens with  aU.S. Ambassador in
Central America...the Ambassador was aske dto explain how such U.S.
action as the mining of Nicaragua's harbots and bombing of airports
differed from teh acts of tgerrorism that the U.S. condemned around
the world. The reply, off the record, was, "Well, you're not goign to
like this answer, but if they do it, it's terrorism, if we do it, ti's
fighting for freedom."
--Patricia Hyndes, Central America Historical Institute, August 1985

[Quotes from Sklar's book]

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"During a speech in February 1985, Vice-President George Bush
displayed a Nicaragua postage stamp bearing the bearded face of Karl
Marx, as proof fo the essential nature of th Sandinista retime. It was
not the rifst tiem teh image from a stamp had been used for political
reasons. Recall Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, lobbying for Panama
in the debate over an inter-oceanic canal: "Look at teh Nicaraguan
postage stamps," he wrote in one pamphlet in 1901. "Young nations like
to put on their octs of arms what best symbolizes their moral domain
or characterizes their native soil. What have the Nicaraguansn chosen
to characterize their country on their coat of arms, on their postage
stamps? Volcanoes!"

"In one sense Bush and Bunau-Varilla were both correct about the
importance of a young nation's postage stamps. The problem was that
the set mnarking the centenary of Marx's death was only one of many
commemorative issues. Bush might even have boosted his case by
pointing to a set honoring Lenin's 115th birthday, or a stamp
featuring Bulgfarian Comintern leader Giorgi Dimitrov. But casting hte
net wider would halso have revealed a set dedicated to Pope John Paul
II, not to mention a lavish series of seven stamps to mark the 250th
birthday of George Washinton, which depicted teh great American hero
signing hte Coinstitution, crossing the Delaware, and shivering at
Valley Forge. Indeed, Bush's claims propmted a letter to the New York
Times from a reader in Cleveland, who reported receiving "an envelope
from Nicaragua on which were affixesd to brightly colored stamps
dedicated to Babae Ruth, complete with a baseball, the Starts and
Stripes, and the Babe in the characteristic process of swatting a ball
into teh bleachers."

[George Black, The Good Neighbor p.160]

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"The man whom [the Sandinistas] honor, Sandino, he said he was a
communist." -- Ronald Reagan, in _Time_, March, 1986.\

"The commandantes even betrayed the memory of the Nicaraguan rebel
leader Sandino, whose legacy they falsely claim. For the real Sandino,
because he was a genuine nationalist, was opposed to communism." --
Ronald Reagan, June 24, 1986.

[George Black's book]

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[See and add to this files remarkable deceptions mentioend in Black's
book, pp. 144-148.