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In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
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Cardinal inside linebacker Nikki Sandanista ’03 is a mean, snarling, meat-headed sack-machine if you catch her on a Saturday afternoon or any number of weekday practices.
Sandanista’s parents, Emiliano and Marcos Sandanista, marvel at their daughter’s ability to maintain such an equilibrium between athletics and husband-seeking.
Sandanista stands as a glowing example of how women-folk are defining new roles for themselves, expressing their will-to-power in this day and age of rage.
www.wesleyan.edu /argus/archives/aa_archive_apr262002/dateyear/f5.html   (415 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: That Damn List Thing
Also, while we're on the boat we need to be mindful to stay 100 yards clear of divers, and the cover is a good reminder of that.
There are so many great Clash albums, but Sandanista has the ability to make you forget about time -- the hours and interminable minutes before you get to wake up the person who takes the next watch.
Sandanista was trance music before trance was invented -- and it has just enough shitty songs to keep you awake to hit the skip button on night watches.
www.splendidmagazine.com /departments/tdlt/tdlt52305.html   (854 words)

  
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However, women's organizations were supported by the Sandanista government only assuming that they did not actually deal with "women's" or "feminist issues." Thus, innately tied to party politics, the women's movement was essentially determined by the Sandanista government.
Though led predominantly by Sandanista women, the movement is politically autonomous, consisting of small local groups, united together in broad-based national organizations such as The National Feminist Committee and the Network of Women Against Violence.
After the Hurricane, the local government, which is Sandanista, organized and received international funding to be used in the largescale reconstruction process.
www.homemakers.org /lucy-essay.html   (1110 words)

  
 The American Thinker
In Central America, Marxist guerrillas were attacking the El Salvador government and the Sandanistas had taken control of Nicaragua.
This was especially true about his support of the Contras fighting against the Sandanista government in Nicaragua.
President Carter, who had had not tried to stop the Sandanistas from taking power, was part of the commission observing the elections.
www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=3967   (1355 words)

  
 The World Is Watching (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We watch as the Washington team carefully scrutinizes the voiceovers, blanching at the suggestion that the protesters in the street are somehow “anti-war”.
Meanwhile, the Sandanista government still refuses to negotiate with the contras and is thus presumably the cause of all this violence.
Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandanistas, is giving a speech to a large assembled crowd.
www.aaronsw.com /weblog/001444   (656 words)

  
 CIA, Contra, Cocaine Chronology
A spokesman in Nicaragua said the Sandanistas had "nothing to do directly with the death of Somoza", but expressed "joy at the death of an evil man".
Sandanista leaders petitioned the United Nations to denounce the alleged invasion by the United States of its territory.
The ruling Sandanista junta has suspended all individual civil rights in Nicaragua for 30 days on order to regain control, claiming the nation was faced with aggression by the United States.
www.eleggua.com /Social/CokeChrono.html   (7860 words)

  
 America's secret war
In 1979, the "Sandanistas" --a left-wing revolutionary army --defeated the U.S.-trained army of dictator Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.
Blandon was the son of a wealthy Nicaraguan family who fled from Nicaragua to Los Angeles on June 19, 1979, at age 29, just as the Somoza dictatorship collapsed.
His family's ranches and real estate holdings in Managua, and his wife's substantial wealth, were confiscated by the Sandanista government.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /CIA/secret_war.html   (955 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The Sandanistas won a popular uprising in Nicaragua in 1979 that ousted the corrupt Somoza family dynasty.
It would make a dreadful impression to see a group campaigning in favour of the ordination of women doing such an injustice to the millions of people who struggled at the cost of enormous loss of life to liberate themselves and their country from appalling economic poverty and illiteracy.
The Sandanista revolution in Nicaragua enjoyed huge support from Christians and a number of priests took on government posts after the ousting of Somoza to forward the good of the revolution.'
www.womenpriests.org /called/mccorm.asp   (2255 words)

  
 UPI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Seal returned to the United States from one trip with a load of drugs and claims he had photos of a top Sandanista official and uniformed Sandanista soldiers loading drugs onto the airplane.
After his death Seal was described in a heavily censured document called a "Summary of Contra Participants, Confidential Witness List," and obtained from the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act as having "had deep and unknown ties" with CIA officials, The News reported.
The C-123 registered to Seal and used in the DEA-CIA Sandanista sting was shot down seven months later over Nicaragua while flying supplies to the anti-Communist Contras.
www.idfiles.com /upi.htm   (444 words)

  
 MAR | Data | Chronology for Indigenous Peoples in Honduras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Exiled Nicaraguan Indian leaders reached an agreement with the Sandanista government to return to Managua by September 27th.
Nicaraguan refugees (mainly Miskitos) protested against the Sandanista government's refusal to allow them to register for the February 1990 elections.
Thousands of peasants (mostly Indians) protested the agrarian land reform of Honduras by occupying 100,000 hectares of land.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=9102   (2234 words)

  
 Nicaragua: Poets as Politicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This film was made while the Sandanista government of Nicaragua was struggling against the heavily­armed incursions of the CIA backed Contras.
It looks at a government that was almost entirely made up of distinguished writers, such as Tomas Borge, Ernesto Cardinal, and the Vice President, Sergio Ramirez.
Produced by Tony Knox, the program examines through exclusive interviews the extraordinary number of Sandanista leaders and opposition figures who are also poets or novelists.
pages.britishlibrary.net /tonyknox/curlewfilms/nicaraguarev.html   (199 words)

  
 Uno, Dos, Tres … ¡Clash! Three From The "Only Band That Matters" Review By Raymond Chowkwanyu
Someone in the band must have read Einstein's intriguing question, "What if the draft age youth of all nations resisted conscription?" The thudding beat is relieved by crisp tinkling bells.
The closest thing to a title song is "Washington Bullets" with its refrain "Sandanista!".
In retrospect, the elegy to Castro and the Sandanistas is embarrassing.
www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0504/clash.htm   (2723 words)

  
 BBC News | Americas | Heat, song and division mark Sandanista anniversary
In a symbolic show of protest, some 500 Sandinista dissidents, including many of Ortega's most prominent former comrades, boycotted the main celebrations Monday and carried out their own rally at another city square a mile away.
On 19 July, 1979, the Sandanista rebels drove from power the US-backed regime of general Anastasio Somoza and set about trying to reform the country's archaic political and economic system.
The Sandinistas themselves lost power at the ballot box in 1990, voted out by a population tired of the effects of civil war and a crippling economic crisis.
news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/world/americas/newsid_398000/398860.stm   (386 words)

  
 Sacred Violence in Christianity and Islam
Pronouncing that the rule of General Anastasio Somoza was “Sin,” he joined the Sandanista Front, and in due course was killed in battle.
On the other side of the world, First Lieutenant Khaled Islambouli of the Egyptian army was preparing himself for the greatest action of his life.
It was called largely at the instigation of the United States, whose delegation to it was large, and came armed with facts and figures about terror in the Middle East, and about the “terrorist” Sandanistas.
www.mts.net /~tonyhj/Writing/SacredViolence/SacredViolence.html   (942 words)

  
 News Article -- November 22, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A faculty panel, comprised of Professors Dario Euraque and Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, as well as Maryam Elahi, director of the Human Rights Program, were also on hand to participate in the discussion.
Ramirez discussed his involvement with the Sandanista movement with enthusiasm, wondering aloud what he would have done if he had been born too early or too late to take part in the revolution, but always mentioning that he was, above all, a writer.
Ramirez talked about the difficulties in sharing the love for writing that he had always possessed with the love of power and revolution to which he was introduced while was fighting with the Sandanistas.
www.trincoll.edu /zines/tripod/11.22.99/news/news6.html   (388 words)

  
 RANCID LYRICS - Lady Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From the contras to the upstarts to shouting Sandanista
From the contras to the upstarts to shoutin Sandanista
From the Kremlin to Afghanistan to the forgotten ones
www.azlyrics.com /lyrics/rancid/ladyliberty.html   (147 words)

  
 Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 1981: The Year the Rolling Stones Lost the Pennant
Somewhat more surprising was the runner-up: X's Wild Gift, with votes from daily reviewers in En Why and El Lay and Boston and Dayton and Detroit and Minneapolis too, as well as from 50 or so of the counterculture pros, hobbyists, freelancers, and semiemployed lowlifes who dominate rock criticism as they always have.
So Lester, an ace critic because he takes everything hard, is bitterly disappointed because "almost all current music is fraudulent" and "worthless" (and also because his friend Richard Hell, never a model of fortitude, hasn't thought up a title for his unreleased album).
Most critics I know, Kit included, love a lot of it (my January recommendation is Rebel Waltz), but find it frustrating to approach even one side at a time, much less as a whole.
www.robertchristgau.com /xg/pnj/pj81.php   (4183 words)

  
 Community Mobilization: Sandanista Dora Maria Tellez Denied Visa
Community Mobilization: Sandanista Dora Maria Tellez Denied Visa
If we continue to move in a selective isolationist path we will eventually close off our boarders, hearts, and minds to all of the unique and stimulating people and experiences that lay just outside our boarders.
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Sandanista Dora Maria Tellez Denied Visa:
como.typepad.com /community_mobilization/2005/03/sandanista_dora.html   (270 words)

  
 The Guardian
The Sandanista representative to the Fourth Congress of the Socialist Party of Serbia told the meeting of international delegates that was part of the Congress about the situation in Nicaragua, where the revolutionary Sandanista Government was ousted by US intrigue, destabilisation and propaganda.
Today, after several years of US-style democracy and free market "development", Nicaragua has 60 percent unemployment and 40 percent illiteracy.
Imperialism's control is subtle, and Hollywood remains Hollywood.
www.cpa.org.au /garchve2/995cult.html   (887 words)

  
 Joe Strummer/the Clash - www.ezboard.com
Also, the arc of their development is rapid and prolific.
However, as great as these records are, Combat Rock remains my fave.
Maybe London Calling is overrated by critics, but it has the consistently best songwriting and musical skill of their catalog.
p204.ezboard.com /fhotelwombfrm29.showMessage?topicID=346.topic   (1642 words)

  
 INFIDELICA - more rants from bryan about politics, music, life etc. :: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The other night, I was listening to parts of Sandanista!
, Joe Strummer brought out a couple of Latino guys in berets and field khakis, said that they were real live members of the Sandanista revolutionary army, and thousands of pro-Sandanista, anti-Washington leaflets fell from the ceiling.
In addition to the power songs, the Ruts were possibly the best of the punk bands at interpreting reggae, with a better understanding of the dynamics and arrangements used in Jamaican dub reggae than the Police, and even better than what the Clash would display later in Sandanista!
bryanhurst.com /v-web/b2?cat=2   (7046 words)

  
 Killing Us Softly: The Cowardice of the Mainstream Press in the Face of American Wars
A decidedly authoritarian editorial process, dominated by the spokespersons for the who’s who in American society, has largely kept the media on the Right side of American wars.
Two of those wars, the one against the Sandanista and the one against drugs, proved to be the undoing of Webb, who had the courage to buck the mighty press corps.
And the cowardice is not merely dating back to 1996.
www.commondreams.org /views04/1215-28.htm   (819 words)

  
 rubiks's ROCK N ROLL REFERENCE DISCOGRAPHY
Clash, The - "Hitsville U.K." (Sandanista!) epc 1980
Clash, The - "I Fought The Law" (The Cost Of Living ep/The Clash) epc 77 o-Fuller66
Clash, The - "Magnificent Seven, The" (Sandanista!) epc 1980
www.rockmusiclist.com /rock_clc.htm   (1101 words)

  
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Kerry with Sandanista killer Daniel Ortega, circa late 1970s.
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