22817: (Craig) Re: 22815: epiem -- Kathleen: bazelais Jean-Baptiste (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Dan Craig <hoosier@att.net>

I took it to mean that reports of the "coup", like the passing of Mark
Twain, were greatly exaggerated.  J-BA & Co. were not endangered,
bulldozers did not knock down the Palis gates, militants were not
entrenched  in the basement....

Many of the reports from the time seem to have been tainted by media
subjectiveness and/or Washington's propaganda machinery.