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While Steiner concedes that the Sandinistas have been oversensitive to domestic criticism he seeks to put it in perspective. He compares the invasion of Nicaragua by 10,000 rebels to an attack on the United States by a million hostile troops. Some suppression of civil liberties is inevitable, he says...
After returning to the States, Steiner wrote to 22 congressmen and leading newspapers about his findings in Nicaragua--over and above the group's letter--and criticized current U.S. policy. Along with the letter he sent a manual that he obtained in Nicaragua. The book let presented in cartoon form instructions on how to destroy farms and burn books, among other acts of sabotage. According to Steiner, sources in Nicaragua said the manual could be traced...
Steiner says, he plans no further political activism--but he will raise the issue of U.S. policy in Nicaragua in his class and in the law school human rights program, of which he is an organizer...
...Education School Professor Noel F. McGinn, his trip to Nicaragua in August 1983 with the Faculty Committee on Human Rights was not his first. Born in Panama, the 49-year-old McGinn has worked for years on education throughout Latin America. In 1978, on a literacy project for the Agency for International Development, he visited Nicaragua and witnessed the last days of the Somoza regime...
...years later, when organizers of the Faculty on Human Rights approached McGinn about a trip to Nicaragua, he jumped at the opportunity...