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...findings: not only were the first Sandanista elections not a "sham," as per the Reagan Administration, but they were downright upright...
Mondale: (pause) Um, no that was Mario Savio and he didn't do anything at Berkeley until...just forget it. 1964 was the Johnson/Goldwater race, a contest similar to our sham, I mean, campaign...
...going out of its way to squelch the campaign of the most prominent of its opponents, the disillusioned former junta member Artoro Cruz, and right now there is no reason to expect the janta leader, Daniel Ortega Snavculra, will not be elected president next month in an electoral sham overshadowed only by the angling guerilla...
...sham," said Tom Loeffler of Texas...
...same time, however, Secretary of State George Shultz last week was taking a major public swipe at the Sandinistas. During his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, he charged that Nicaragua's November vote looks "more and more like sham elections on the Soviet model." As Shultz spoke, U.S. warships, including the battleship Iowa, cruised off the Nicaraguan coast. Their mission: to serve as reminders of the Reagan Administration's determination to stop the spread of Marxism-Leninism from Nicaragua to the rest of Central America. Meanwhile, leaders of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic...