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	Ben Linder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The massacre of Linder and the Nicaraguans was a deliberate strategy on the part of the Contras to undermine support for the Sandinistas by engaging in a campaign of sabotage against the nation's economy and demonstrating the cost to the people if they continued to support their government.
		Linder's death was bitterly debated in the United States, both in the media and in Congress.
		The Linder House Co-op at the University of Michigan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Linder (1207 words)

	A Globe of Witnesses
		Ben Linder, an engineer from Portland, Ore., was killed a year after I arrived in Nicaragua.
		Ben was delighted with his first success -- the illumination of the town was a ray of light on the path of the revolutionary process under the Sandinista government.
		It was these Contras who assassinated Ben Linder because his success in installing electrical power (as an expression of his support for and collaboration with the Sandinista government) reflected well on the revolutionary government.
	thewitness.org /agw/mulligan021304.html (1343 words)

	Amazon.ca: Death of Ben Linder: Books: Kruckewitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Such was the case with the death of Ben Linder, a young American engineer who, fired by ideals of social justice, volunteered to aid the Sandinista revolution that overthrew the corrupt dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua in 1979.
		She paints a sympathetic portrait of young Linder, too, who, even though idealistic, seems not to have been naive; he recognized that he was in danger, but he pressed on, anyway, to do his part for the revolution, helping build a dam that now provides electricity to former Sandinistas and Contras alike.
		Ben was also a clown and often put on his red nose and clown make-up to juggle and unicycle in poor neighborhoods, where children had never seen a clown.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1888363967 (1557 words)

	Green Empowerment- Local Leadership---Self Sufficiency---Sustainability
		Nearly 13 years after Ben Linder was shot to death beside a stream in northern Nicaragua, his life is inspiring friends and admirers to carry on his work.
		"Ben Linder believed in democracy with a small 'd.' He believed people ought to be able to control their own destinies." David and Elisabeth Linder formed the Ben Linder Memorial Fund shortly after their son's death.
		A new book, "The Death of Ben Linder: The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua," also is drawing attention to her son's work.
	www.greenempowerment.org /benlinderslegacy.htm (816 words)

	Pacific News Service > News > Privileged Sons - John Walker and Ben Linder
		Linder moved to a one-dirt road village to build a hydro-plant to bring electricity to the village, so medicine in a new health center might be refrigerated and farmers could learn to read and write at night school.
		Linder and two Nicaraguans were killed by the Contras in 1987, while they surveyed a stream for the hydro-plant.
		Ben Linder was not the first young American to turn his back on the promise of a comfortable life and pursue a personal challenge and harder days abroad.
	news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=2017cfcfef2fd892ff7d17a613ea3196 (961 words)

	The Biography of Ben Linder
		The bitter irony of Benjamin Linder's death is that he went to Nicaragua to build-up what his own country's dollars paid to destroy -- and ended up a victim of the destruction.
		Ben followed his conscience when he moved to El Cuá, a small village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he, as part of a team of Americans and Nicaraguans, brought electricity to the town.
		Ben knew that the area was dangerous, but, for him, the risks were worthwhile.
	www.scripter.net /backpages/blinder.htm (593 words)

	Green Empowerment- Local Leadership---Self Sufficiency---Sustainability
		Ben Linder, a young man from Portland, Oregon, was killed in 1987 by the US-supported Contras as he and two Nicaraguan co-workers were working on a mini-hydro plant in San José de Bocay.
		Ben, a 27 year-old engineer, was the first U.S. citizen to be killed in the Contra-Sandanista war.
		Today, Ben’s mother, Elisabeth Linder is on Green Empowerment’s advisory council and his legacy is alive in our continued work towards a better future for Nicaraguans.
	www.greenempowerment.org /nicaragua-benlinder.htm (198 words)

	Emil Sher - Benjamin Linder: The Memory of Justice
		Another is of the Linder family as they follow Ben in his coffin through the town of Matagalpa.
		Of course, Ben is only one of the thousands who have been killed in Nicaragua.
		But Ben's death struck home because of certain similarities: we were born only a few months apart in 1959, both sons of European Jews, both the youngest of three children.
	www.emilsher.com /essays/justice.htm (594 words)

	Linder and Negroponte In Nicaragua
		Ben Linder was 27-years-old when, as he built a small dam (weir) to measure water flow in a stream for a project to bring electricity to a nearby village, he was assassinated by Contra rebels.
		Ben attended the University of Washington where in 1983 he got a degree in mechanical engineering.
		George Beres was on the committee that dedicated the Ben Linder Auditorium at the University of Oregon.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Jun2005/berespr0605.html (781 words)

	Environmentalists Against War
		Linder was a minor player in the overall picture.
		Ben was 27 when, as he built a small dam (weir) to measure water flow in a stream for a project to bring electricity to a nearby village, he was assassinated by Contra rebels.
		Ben was a schoolboy in Portland before going to the University of Washington, where in 1983, he got a degree in mechanical engineering.
	www.envirosagainstwar.org /know/read.php?itemid=2674 (931 words)

	351ci Windsor Small-Block Ford — Engine Assembly - Custom Classic Trucks
		Ben attached the connecting rods to the piston wrist pins.
		Ben measured the big-end opening of the connecting rod before insertion of the connecting rod bearing as shown.
		Ben put the pushrods in place and liberally applied synthetic assembly oil to them.
	www.customclassictrucks.com /techarticles/137_0502_351ci_windsor_small_block_ford_engine_assembly/index.html (660 words)

	[Announce-DAN] Correction: Left Hand Books (Si!) not Borders for the Ben (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tom Moore Ben Linder was a 27-year old engineer and unicyclist from Portland, Oregon, who, along with two Nicaraguan volunteers, was ambushed and killed by the U.S. - backed Contras in 1987 as they surveyed a stream for a hydroplant to bring electricity and safe-drinking water to a village in northern Nicaragua.
		In spite of the danger, Ben chose to work in the mountains where a war raged between the Sandinistas and the Contras because he felt he had an obligation, as an American, to rebuild what his country was destroying.
		Ben was also a clown who performed in the circus, and a juggler who delighted in riding his unicycle along the one-dirt road villages, leading children to newly-opened health clinics for vaccinations.
	www.greens.org /colorado/list_archives/announce-dan/msg00523.html (368 words)

	Unicyclist Ben Linder, a brief biography. - Unicyclist Community
		Ben Linder and I were two of the very few undergrads at the University of Washington from 1978 to 1983 that unicycled daily for campus transportation.
		Ben was an engineering student and designed a three-speed triple crank for 20, 24, and 26 equivalents with an adjustable idler arm and gear to take up the chain slack.
		Ben’s unicycling is a prominent part of the book, but not the main subject.
	www.unicyclist.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22586 (2802 words)

	Unicyclist Community - Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Courtesy of the Linder family." This is the full page photo opposite the title page in "The Death of Ben Linder" by Joan Krukewitt.
		Ben and Byron's 24" Schwinns and the Schwinn Giraffe.
		Ben on one of the capes, probably Oregon Coast.
	www.unicyclist.com /gallery/?g2_itemId=112318&g2_page=gallery (278 words)

	Juggling Ambassadors to the Sandanistas
		Ben Linder went to Nicaragua to work as an engineer on small-scale village electrical projects.
		Linder's death gave an even more meaningful context to the trip and involved us in an American peace march to the war zone in the northern part of the country.
		This show was special, as it was here in El Cua that Ben Linder had spent the last months of his life helping, teaching and playing with the families we performed for that evening.
	www.juggling.org /jw/87/3/sandanistas.html (2253 words)

	About The Ben Linder Café
		The Puerto Cafe-Benjamin Linder is a restaurant, art gallery, and internet cafe in downtown Leon, Nicaragua near the University's main campus.
		The cafe is also named after Ben Linder, an American who was killed during the Nicaraguan Civil War.
		Ben Linder worked diligently to improve the lives of Nicaraguan citizens by helping to build a hydroelectric plant.
	www.poluscenter.org /benlinder.html (280 words)

	Big Time Patriot - Is insider trading the evil twin of secret NSA domestic surveillance...
		Ben Linder, martyr for the cause of rural electrification....
		The Casa Benjamin Linder was founded in 1988 by U.S. citizens living and working in Nicaragua, in honor of the memory of a young engineer from Portland, Oregon who was killed by U.S.-funded Contra forces.
		Since it was founded, the Casa Ben Linder has served as a meeting point and education center for the international community and English speakers working in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua.'' from: Casa Benjamin Linder.
	www.bigtimepatriot.com /?itemID=456 (2516 words)

	Project DIANA : Linder v. National Security Agency (95-5291) - Appellant's Reply Brief
		Plaintiffs, the parents and brother and sister of Benjamin Linder, filed a wrongful death action for compensatory and punitive damages in the Southern District of Florida on their own behalf and on behalf of Benjamin Linder, who was tortured and murdered by the Nicaraguan contra forces.
		The Linders described the compelling needs of a family attempting to gather information about the events which lead to the murder of their son and brother nine years ago.
		One of the central arguments the Linders have made throughout their attempts to gain information on Benjamin Linder's death through third-party subpoenas is that they are interested in what happened to Benjamin Linder, not in the signals intelligence process or any other means that the NSA has of gathering information.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diana/linder/5291.htm (6447 words)

	Why Not War? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ben Linder was an engineer from California who lived in Oregon and Washington before moving to Managua, Nicaragua in 1983, four years after the Sandinista revolution.
		He now calls the poem he wrote at the time “too trite to use—it was penned on the spot in a very disgusted mood.” Mike is still writing and has published articles on various social issues.
		His poem is included here as a memorial to Linder and all of the people who struggled against Reagan’s foreign policies.
	thedagger.com /thedagger/reaganyears/myreaganyears.html (316 words)

	Printed Matter -- Joan Kruckewitt -- Page
		Ben Linder was a man who maintained his moral integrity.
		In her book, she describes in compelling terms the heat, the mud, the food, the danger and the loneliness Linder faced.
		For documentation, she relied on Ben's letters home to his family and girlfriend, interviews with his friends and co-workers, and her own experiences.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/2000/ben.html (807 words)

	Gary Handschumacher: Mourn Ben Linder, Not Reagan
		Ben Linder was murdered by Reagan's contras on April 28, 1987.
		Ben Linder was also an accomplished juggler and unicyclist, and often dressed as a clown to perform for Nicaraguan children, for whom he had particular affection.
		Ben told me the first year he was here, and this is a quote, "It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people." I am grateful that he had his three and a half years in Nicaragua."
	www.counterpunch.org /lindner06162004.html (1608 words)

	Casa Ben Linder \| Benjamin Linder, presente!
		Since it was founded, the Casa Ben Linder has served as a meeting point and education center for the international community and English speakers working in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua.
		Casa Ben Linder meetings are Thursday mornings, 8:30 to 10ish, at the Casa Ben Linder in Managua (en Barrio Monseñor Lezcano, de donde fue el Banco Popular, 2 al lago, 2 arriba [alternately, de la estatua de Monseñor Lezcano, 2 al sur, 2 arriba]...
		Casa Ben Linder is a project of the Foundation for Sustainable Development.
	casabenlinder.org /node?from=10&PHPSESSID=e55f026d16f01914a52588d2b9... (423 words)

	Fragile
		Joan Kruckewitt's book, The Death of Ben Linder includes an account of Linder's funeral procession, "In the coffin lay Benjamin Ernest Linder, a twenty-seven-year-old American engineer.
		Ben Linder, an American engineer was killed in 1987 by the "Contras" as a result of this confusion."
		Ben Linder: The death of a dreamer (external page)
	www.learningfromlyrics.org /Fragile.html (503 words)

	Wired News: Waiting for WAP
		Linder, a member of the group's marketing committee, is vice president of Phone.com, which has built a WAP-based browser.
		Linder's Phone.com, formerly known as Unwired Planet, in 1997 led an unsuccessful bid to establish the handheld device markup language, or HDML, as a standard.
		Advocates like Linder say that WAP -- which incorporates HDML as well as a set of optimized versions of common Internet protocols such as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and encryption algorithms -- will fare better on today's phones, on which larger, clearer displays are more common.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/1,20521-2.html (950 words)

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		In 1987, the Death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters," the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras, ignited a firestorm of protest and debate.
		she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death.
		Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.
	www.sevenstories.com /onix/?isbn=1888363967 (292 words)

	Willamette Week \| News Buzz
		Linder was 5-foot-4-inches and preferred unicycles to bicycles.
		Author Barbara Kingsolver spoke at a commemoration on the fifth anniversary of Linder's death, not at a conference in 1987, which Ed Asner did not attend.
		And the Ben Linder Construction Brigades worked on a hospital and clinic in Nicaragua, but did not work on dams.
	www.wweek.com /html/newsbuzz112499.html (1046 words)

	Ben Linder Mystery
		The Ben Linder Mystery is an activity for students to use Internet resources to learn about the politics and history behind the death of Ben Linder.
		The Linder family walked near the head of the crowd, dazed by the heat of the day and the event.
		We hope that by being a part of the Linder Mystery students gained an insider's perspective of what it would be like to live and work in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution.
	www.stanford.edu /group/arts/nicaragua/student/linder (960 words)

	Sustainable Empowerment
		He describes how Green Empowerment was formed out of an effort begun by the parents of the late Ben Linder, a volunteer who was building a hydropower project in Nicaragua when he was killed by Contra soldiers.
		Ben’s parents raised awareness — and money — to fund the completion of his project in 1994, and the birth of Green Empowerment in 1997.
		Green Empowerment continues to maintain the Ben Linder Memorial Fund, as well as Ben’s initial vision to bring sustainability to villages without electricity.
	www.globalenvision.org /library/10/334/6 (1649 words)

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