The dogs never lie
McManus, Philip
racy, chain stores, big banks, and probably the TV networks. postpones the possibility that their real problems of stifling It is based on the simple notion that the exalted should be ...
...But the The contras have killed twenty-one members of the nearby charge that Nicaragua, after decades of struggle to throw off Jacinto Vaca co-op which nonetheless continues to produce...
...Exploiting this vulnerability, OLITICAL debate in this country about social change in Eden Pastora's (ARDE) contra group had some success in Pthe third world is often clouded by a tendency to read building political support...
...While it has been less vigilant in the revolution: health workers, teachers, individual militia defense of political liberties, it nonetheless compares favoramembers, members of cooperative farms...
...These people are victims...
...Such simplistic characterizations local residents killed by the contras in the preceding six are belied by the voices of those living under the many guns weeks, including a twenty-two-year-old woman, her fivewhich cast their dark shadows across the Nicaraguan coun- year-old daughter, and her sixty-two-year-old mother...
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...spite of the war...
...Hightower stands for ing that such abuses have occurred and that they cannot be something...
...aid to the contras, based on a simplistic and dangerously skewed analysis of the dynamics of change in Nicaragua, only Commonweal: 360 contras appear to avoid confrontations with the army...
...As a result, ARDE is now in tatters...
...As visits to the war zones graphiclaimed their lives...
...A Japanese cars, or Rolling Stone magazine...
...During a recent as "freedom fighters...
...The co-op in Los bly with other Central American countries in that regard, in Angeles is defunct because the members fear for their lives...
...PHILIP McMANUS tone that pleads for solace she says, "I am terrified when I hear (Philip McManus is on the staff of the Resource Center for the dogs bark in the night...
...The tryside...
...They also fear the contras who kidnap people from their homes in the dead of night and brutalize and murder those who participate in government programs...
...Neither witness charged that those who War...
...In Spanish a word frequently knowledge) in having a wide range of edges, this plain across which a word can translated as love really means want or uses, extending from the most trival wander without being lost, is necessary...
...To demonstrate, she crosses her Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, California...
...A word like THE LANGUAGES OF LOVE "love" is important precisely because it has such a multivalent use, and we would not be better off if the word could not encompass a love for chocolate and a THE WORD "love" is like some meant by wisdom...
...Instead, pressive social gains it had achieved before the war curtailed with the help of informants and, apparently, as a matter of such efforts show it also to be, on the whole, an earnest attempt policy, they consistently target those who lend any support to to serve the poor majority...
...You The point may be difficult to accept for ically useful distinction between eros can trust that a certain toothpaste will do those philosophers of language who re- and agape, the ways we talk about love the job, and you can trust a friend...
...backed contras Democratic Force (FDN) which is dominated by Somoza's fighting the Nicaraguan government has suffered from such hated National Guard...
...has preferred to into the present our personal hopes and fears for the fund the area's unpopular but more "reliable" Nicaraguan future...
...Unless, of course, has produced to larger, more secure population centers...
...A Delegate of the Word (Catholic lay minister) told (The latter was Hightower's first employer and lost his Senate of the execution by the army of two of his co-workers in a seat because he came out against Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam remote community...
...Sovereign nations determine for themselves Guinea, seeing no hope in a war which only seems to grind on what respects their sovereignty...
...In other areas of Nicaragua the poor majority have reaped the benefits of educational, THE DOGS NEVER LIE health, and land reform programs...
...Many Sandinista military personnel have reportSalem Journal, Winston-Salem, N.C...
...Margarita Bermudez, a wizened peasant woman whose face policy in Nicaragua is war, our government will not support traces the strain of her long, hard life, spoke of the continuing Contadora, despite our growing international isolation on that violence in Los Angeles and the steady stream of migration it position, so there will continue to be war...
...His son Texas politicians like Wright Patman and Ralph Yarborough...
...The tradition has a In recent interviews in Costa Rica, clearly traumatized long history...
...were killed, for allegedly aiding the contras, had been victims Hightower is swimming upstream in his party, too...
...The controversy around aid to the U.S...
...But of religious persecution...
...Any Democrats here for a voice, tolerated on moral, political, or even military grounds...
...A bearnaise sauce love for one's children...
...Eastern Bloc influence is significant...
...It isn't ally should have become accountants, - whatever it means - vary so widely at wise to park in a place where you might who turn to philosophy and insist on a times that we ought to look at them with get a ticket, but this isn't what Plato word meaning exactly one thing, or if not some concern...
...IAN The war-torn region of Nueva Guinea in southeast Nicaragua has a population of 117,000 scattered across the agriculturally-poor, tropical savannah...
...Military abuses of authority to combat contra American nations signed a Contadora Peace Treaty, the U.S...
...one thing one list of things which can't Of several minds: John Garvey move beyond boundaries with clear limits...
...solidify popular support, it will do what it feels necessary to In January, U.S...
...It is a aspirations, and determination of the Nicaraguan people...
...infiltration, while only exacerbating the government's predi- "would have to wait and see whether it respects the cament, are nonetheless predictable, whether because of in- sovereignty of (those) countries" before deciding whether or adequate training, poor discipline, or immature or crazed not to support it (i.e., whether the U.S...
...Prominent international human rights groups such as Americas Watch have concluded that abuses are not common, nor, Nicaraguan war apparently, a part of official policy...
...cally reveal, it is all too often the innocent who are being In this situation, while the government can do little to slaughtered...
...On the other hand, the contras are visit to Los Angeles, Nueva Guinea, population 1000, commore than the terrorizing remnants of Somoza's National plaints were voiced about contra kidnappings which occurred Guard, and the Sandinistas are definitely less than the popular regularly...
...Many dread the Sandinista military which drafts the youth to fight a war they seek to avoid and which imprisons those suspected of collaboration with the contras...
...The im- January and February, to Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...Rather, they were casualties of the Democrats in search of themselves might consider competition war...
...Catholic priest there corroborated the killing of the lay deleKEITH C. BURRIS gates and said he had requested and been promised a full (Keith C. Burris is an editorial writer for the Winston- investigation...
...Obviously, the ambassador and to grind them up, desperately grasps at an illusory neu- was speaking on behalf of the administration's view of U.S., trality and finds instead fear and helplessness...
...In contrast, the social COSTS OF THE 'CONTRAS' programs and limited resources of the revolution have barely reached the relatively unorganized and sparsely populated communities of Nueva Guinea...
...U.S...
...This broad territory with fuzzy with desire...
...The not an echo...
...Ambassador to Costa Rica Louis Tambs maintain military control in the face of foreign-sponsored told a visiting delegation that even in the event that the Central aggression...
...It is the political father in tears described a night-time encounter with the army philosophy of the underdog, and its spirit was expressed by while he and others were hiking to a prayer meeting...
...On behalf of the Felarms, clutches each shoulder, trembles all over, and solemnly lowship of Reconciliation and Witness for Peace, he has led six says, "The dogs never lie...
...On the one hand, the Sandinistas have been Nonetheless, it only takes marauding bands of ten to fifteen unduly characterized as "totalitarian" thugs and the contras to wreak havoc with the civilian population...
...domination, will trade that for Soviet or Cuban dominaOthers, like the family mentioned above, are killed simply tion reveals a lack of familiarity or concern for the needs, because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...regulated and taxed, the humble employed...
...And since the current U.S...
...delegations to Central America since 1983, most recently, in The Nicaraguan revolution is clearly imperfect...
...That such abuses should occur is due in part to the highly conflicted nature of Nueva Guinea...
...distorted images...
...edly been convicted and imprisoned for such crimes...
...But a language is not a series of definitions so much as it is a series of gestures MORE THAN SENTIMENT and a set of associations...
...was killed...
...And the community grieved the deaths of thirteen heroes who can do no wrong...
...for their revolution...
...This Nicaraguan refugees from Nueva Guinea recounted abuses populism bears no love for the Russians, Bella Abzug, they had witnessed at the hands of the Sandinista military...
...And it isn't a bit like New York liberalism...
...postpones the possibility that their real problems of stifling It is based on the simple notion that the exalted should be poverty and limited political participation will be resolved...
...However, the U.S...
...They might consider the neo's 53 Local officials in Nueva Guinea were frank in acknowledgpercent against the Texas populist's 83...
...as a viable political strategy...
...not Central American, interests...
...desire, and although Greek has a theologareas of life to the most essential...
...Much of the population lives in fear...
...would continue to fund individuals...
...In a Congress refuses to pay for it...
...sickening feeling to gaze into the timid, innocent, and uncom- Whether or not we recognize that Nicaragua has the right to prehending eyes of a seven-year-old boy whose sister, mother, chart its own course and make its own mistakes, we cannot and grandmother have been murdered and to realize, even avoid the fact that many, many Nicaraguans are clearly willing though he doesn't, that our tax dollars are funding the war that to die...
...And their pain and grief are only exacerbated by the war...
...he has a center...
...Meanwhile, most of the population of Nueva the contras...
...In its roots in other important words (faith, done in just the right way is good, and so almost every language the word has to do trust, hope, care, wisdom, good, is a saint...
Vol. 113 • June 1986 • No. 12
