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: Three weeks ago, Americas Watch issued a report on human rights abuses in Nicaragua.

One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.

How can we get people in the U. S. to see what's happening here when so many of the groups who come down are pro-Sandinista?