the youth and anti imperialist tribune was also addressed by a young girl from nicaragua whose hands had been cut off at the wrists by the former somoza guards veronika merko of the german federal republic had this to say also ich habe eine ausbildung gemacht als industriekaufmann und wurde nach der lehre nicht uebernommen now and then a little thing gets by now and then we ll cry like a fall in the war like a mother s open arms like a pawn in a game hard to take there we sit on a line wasting fortunes at a time and pray all the time we are gone there s no reason there s no way oh the soul is the one so they say there we sit on a line wasting fortunes at a time and play she never thought he d be this way her arms aloft she holds but now it s all a memory and it s gone