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

DATE: TUESDAY, February 2, 1993                   TAG: 9302020338
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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COCHRAN TROUNCES GUN CONTROL

I HAD thought of writing several times this month regarding your extravagant - and weak - series on gun control; your excellent editorial comment on Sen. Robb's ordeal with the grand jury (the electorate jury is still out); and Gov. Wilder's commentary - is he a newspaperman, too? - on gun "exports."

Then came Sunday and Outdoor writer Bill Cochran's heart-warming column on an aging - and ageless - bird dog.

On a scale of zero to 10, I give Cochran a nine. Gun control and Gov. Wilder are lucky to get a two.

J. HART SNYDER\ LYNCHBURG

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