{"article":{"id":4737,"heading":"Overseas View of the Coup","author":"Unknown (expanded by Hugh Stegman)","created":"2000-12-01 03:01:55","modified":"2005-08-15 00:30:42","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:30:42","article":"","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"An unknown writer in Zimbabwe apparently started this exercise for a class, in which we are asked only to imagine what we'd think if the U.S. election had taken place in a Third World country.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/overseas_v.txt","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/12\/4737.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":4772,"heading":"Everybody knows the US is a Banana Republic","article":"\r\nEverybody knows the US is the biggest Banana Republic in the World, surely this is no surprise?","author":"Chris Freeman","parent_id":4737,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-12-04 19:58:40","modified":"2000-12-04 21:00:00","fileurl":""},{"id":4775,"heading":"We in Britain are alarmed too","article":"The structures built up over a whole century to combat the USSR must crumble and at least reconfigure now the spectre has gone. But if Russia has been diminished, and the USA is just about holding steady in global power terms, we are worried that Britain is expanding to fill the gap, via the so called \"commonwealth\". \r\nWe see Britain as the most pugnacious member of NATO, bludegoning its way into Sierra Leone openly to seize the diamond fields. \r\nwe are worried indeed.","author":"Who he","parent_id":4737,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-12-05 12:34:36","modified":"2000-12-05 13:00:01","fileurl":""}]}