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...athlete" to tempt young people to light up. Mark Green's first official act as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs was to fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt to lure children into smoking?" Green wrote. Meanwhile, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said he would back a bill to ban most cigarette-vending machines because they make state law prohibiting sales to minors "largely unenforceable...
...since the tragic and violent repression of pro-democacy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square last June 3-4. The Executive Board of the Harvard Republican Club gives its full support and admiration to the Chinese students' courageous fight for liberty, as does President Bush. However, we feel that the editorial cartoon published in the Feb. 1 issue of The Crimson which blasted Bush for vetoing a bill allowing Chinese students to remain in the U.S. after their visas expire, overlooked some key facts and was misleading to the uninformed reader. An examination of the facts shows that a Presidential veto...
...massacre, President Bush issued an executive order allowing all Chinese nationals in the United States as of June 6, 1989 to remain here until at least June 5, 1990. No Chinese student or any other Chinese national has been sent back to China since Tiananmen massacre, as the cartoon would have one believe. Moreover, Bush has stated that visas will be extended as long as there is danger in China for returning nationals...
...aired such advocacy films as Nightbreaker, an antinuclear drama starring Martin Sheen, and Incident at Dark River, in which Mike Farrell (who produced the movie) plays a man whose daughter is killed by toxic waste dumped by a local factory. Currently in production is Captain Planet, a cartoon show for kids about a superhero who fights environmental villains. And Turner's new publishing unit has just created the Turner Tomorrow Awards, offering prizes of up to $500,000 for outstanding unpublished works of fiction that deal with saving the planet...
...jokes are just vestiges of past attitudes--which I wish they were--still, to make them, and especially to publish them, is to reinforce the bigotry they express. I am not accusing anyone of being a rapist. However, I am shocked not only that anyone would create such a cartoon or think it was funny, but even more, that through the entire editorial process, not one person on the staff of The Lampoon was aware enough of what this cartoon stated to object to it. This lack of awareness says a lot about how people easily make light of that...