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From: Steven King <motcid!king@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: AT&T Change in Corporate Donations Policy
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Date: 10 Apr 90 14:46:26 GMT
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In article <6131@accuvax.nwu.edu> gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:

>AT&T which has donated money to Planned Parenthood for years recently
>decided to stop donating money.  I recently called AT&T to find out if
>it was true that they had capitulated to right wing extremists.
>[gory details omitted]

Hey, chill out David.  From the sound of your letter, you were
connected to a low-level AT&T flunky.  Of *course* she wasn't able to
comment on AT&T policy regarding Planned Parenthood!  She read you the
press release excerpts; that's probably all she had to go on too.  For
all you know the person you talked to may have been pro-life to the
same rabid degree that you're pro-choice, but unable and unwilling to
debate it with you at length.  I suggest that there are better ways to
make yourself heard than browbeating the poor non-policy-making
operators.


Steve King, uunet!motcid!king