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...feel sympathy not for Dale Burr but for his victims. Many Americans experience financial disaster without going on a rampage of murderous retribution. Burr was not a victim of the current farmers' plight. He was homicidal and vengeful. The real tragedy is that Burr chose himself as his final rather than his first victim. John F. Doran Jr. Lawrenceville...
...memorable radio reports ("This ... is London") went on to become the most admired newsman of television's first decade. With his brooding brow, sonorous voice and ever present cigarette, Murrow personified the highest standards of journalism for millions. His CBS documentaries on the McCarthy witch hunts and the plight of migrant farm workers are classics of impassioned TV reportage. A movie about this legendary figure would seem an overdue tribute...
...moral courage. Of this century's heroes, the man he most closely resembled was his model, India's Mohandas K. Gandhi. Combining Christian idealism with Gandhi's principle of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakened the conscience of the U.S. and the world to the plight of America's blacks. More than any other single person, King was responsible for the endowment with legal equality of a people who had been enslaved for two centuries, then denied many of their country's basic civil rights for another hundred years...
Most people consider the plight of the homeless anything but a laughing matter, but for Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal it only hurts when they stop laughing. The three comedians were in Washington last week to promote a three-hour telethon they will host on HBO to raise money for health-care organizations serving the homeless in 18 cities. Scheduled to air from Los Angeles next week, Comic Relief will feature a gaggle of gagsters for every age group, from Michael J. Fox to Henny Youngman. HBO will let cable operators make the broadcast available to all subscribers...
...displacement of the Palestinians and their continuing plight leaves very few options to an embittered Arab world. Unfortunately, terrorism is one of them. Perhaps fair treatment of the Palestinians might be the answer to ending this horror. William Bunce New Hope...