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Thread #98343   Message #1946142
Posted By: 282RA
23-Jan-07 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ortega slashes his OWN salary!
Subject: RE: BS: Ortega slashes his OWN salary!
I've always liked Ortega. Remember when they caught that spy plane pilot--Eugene Hassenfuss or something--and the Nicaraguan govt could pretty much do with him as they pleased--they caught him spying. Ortega asked him if he had a family. Yessir. Ortega asked him if he'd like to go home and see them again and Hassenfuss with cracking voice said yessir I want very much to go home and see them again. So Ortega sent him home and the State Dept actually had the nerve to condemn Ortega's kindness and goodwill. Called it grandstanding or something stupid.