Cover-up at 'The New York Review'. (on Nicaragua) (Beat the Devil)

From: The Nation | Date: July 4, 1987| Author: Cockburn, Alexander | Copyright information

Cover-Up at "The New York Review'

The White House is not the only institution engaged in acover-up of its behavior in Nicaragua. For almost a year now The New York Review of Books has successfully suppressed exposure of its complicity in providing intellectual underpinning for the assault on Nicaragua. Some readers may recall a series of articles in The New York Review depicting the Sandinistas as bloodthirsty dictators, written by Robert Leiken and criticized in this co...

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