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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 'The Day After' - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 15:47:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 20 15:47:06 1983
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Nov 18 15:26:00 1983

You're correct about the comment about the Perishing launcher movement -- I'm
glad that they removed that from the film.

However, that sort of a comment does not imply that the U.S. started the war.
My immediate reaction would be that the Soviets over-reacted to an unannounced
movement of missles or some such. This is one senerio which has been constantly
suggested as a possible cause of strikes, mostly because of the close
proximity of the Perishings to the U.S.S.R., giving them very little time
to react to a situation.

And about the movie being pre-viewed by the freeze people -- I was under the
impression that the preview was open to reviewers, mainly from newspapers,
but also from teachers institutions and so forth, to allow these groups
to prepare for the day after "The Day After" in the schools. I had not heard
that the freeze groups had special access to it. However, admitting that
the DoD asked that certain sections be omitted would seem to preclude that
they had seen the film aforehand too. Almost seems like a balanced approach.