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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 7, 1991                   TAG: 9102070435
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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FRONT-PAGE ARTICLE WAS BIASED, PRO-WAR

I AM OUTRAGED that you printed an article Jan. 24 about six high-school students merely draping themselves in American flags and standing on a street waving pro-war signs. It was biased and not worthy of making the front page in a time when articles on Russia attacking countries in the Baltic deserve that space.

I went to a peace demonstration in Washington, D.C., recently, where not one person, speech, or sign was against the troops. Do these students actually believe that anti-war protesters are against the very people who are risking their lives in the Middle East, for our sake? Troy Herstine and his friends should not be disgusted at citizens against this war, but at the policy-makers who demand it.

If the prospect of George Bush's lust for war - despite Saddam Hussein's threat to set so many oil wells on fire that, as Carl Sagan believes, smoke could cause failing harvests and famine - does not seem like a good enough reason to protest, maybe these students should take an ecology class next semester. PEGGY WALTON HOLLINS COLLEGE

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