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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 15:46:45 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 20 15:46:45 1983
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Nov 18 02:08:00 1983

  Seeing as how this film was started over two years ago, I don't see how the
film was timed to conincide with the increase in the popularity of the
freeze movement. 
  And I still contend that your statement about the obvious liberal leanings
in the film are misguided. In a review in this weeks In These Times, they point
out that the film is very careful about avoiding that. The producers do not
go into detail about who started the nuclear exchange (one might note that the
DoD applied pressure to have it appear that the U.S.S.R. started it, as well
as asking the producers to remove any mention of Perishing missles in Europe).
The concept of civil defense has been, for the most part, rejected by the
various groups you feel are behind this film. This film (according to the
reviewers who have seen it) preaches civil defense. I still think that the
only liberal thing about it is that it is going to make a lot of people
aware of nuclear war will mean to them.
  Certainly there is a dispairty of facts here. Why not watch the film for
yourself and find out if it is just so much liberal brouhaha?

Dirk "We'll never need nightlights again" Grunwald
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