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

DATE: TUESDAY, April 2, 1991                   TAG: 9104020511
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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CENSORSHIP LET A LOT BE LEARNED

I THINK that censorship was the main point of Oswald Ensor's letter March 12 concerning the Gulf War. I couldn't tell what he was trying to say if I read it a hundred times.

Mr. Ensor began by writing about the costs of the Gulf War in a satirical fashion. He then made a tremendous "literary leap" to another topic - the newspaper's aid in censoring the war for George Bush. How did he know that we killed 30,000 people or that 400 oil wells were destroyed, if he was victimized by censorship?

My friends, this is America. In this country, freedom of speech is allowed. If the Roanoke Times & World-News was so guilty of censorship, I would never have seen that awful letter in the newspaper. CHRISTINE DePAULIS SALEM

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