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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, January 21, 1992                   TAG: 9201210352
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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CAN'T DRIVE NOW TO DETROIT FOR WORK

MY HEART goes out to people who are losing their jobs these days. Factories are laying off; factories are closing.

I remember several years ago, when I lived in Wise County, jobs were sometimes hard to come by. But back then, people could jump in their Fords, Chevys and Plymouths and head for Detroit. The American automobile industries were begging for workers, educated and uneducated.

Today, if we get out of work, we can't head for Japan. They don't hire unemployed Americans. JAMES J. HALL FINCASTLE

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