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DISSENTING OPINION

By D. JOSEPH Menn

THE WELL-MEANING majority of the Crimson fails to distinguish between a lacking reformist "progress" of the Salvadoran rightists and the despairing concessions of the struggling Sandinistas.

Sending Cuban troops home is not progress but retrogression in the struggle of the Nicaraguan people.

Agreed, increases in death-squad murders should not be supported, but neither should any form of illegal war against Nicaragua be tolerated.

Furthermore; the majority panacea of a Democratic vote in 1984 is ludicrous.

The party of flag-waving Tip O'Neill and anti-Soviet strikebreakers is no solution to the U.S. foreign policy crimes of capitalism.

A militant labor force to bring down Reagan's reactionary policies is the only legitimate hope for reversing our current Central America stratagems.

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