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From: peter@yetti.UUCP (Runge)
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Subject: Re: Farley Mowat
Message-ID: <181@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 02:09:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 02:09:33 1985
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Reply-To: peter@yetti.UUCP (Peter Roosen-Runge)
Organization: York University Computer Science
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In article <1066@uwmacc.UUCP> rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) writes:
>Chris Lewis (utzoo!mnetor!clewis) writes
>>		Farley Mowat was denied entry [into the US]
>
>According to the newspaper report I read, Mowat's name was on the list
>because in the 60s, he stated publicly that he had used a high-powered
>rifle to take potshots at American fighter planes as a form of protest
>against America.  He has confirmed this statement several times.

But in several versions! The one I like is where he and his drinking buddy
row out into the St. Lawrence and fire their sealing gun (range 100 feet?)
at the B-52s overhead.  By the way, I don't think he ever said he had
actually done this -- just that he would if the Americans didn't stop
overflying him with H-bombs.

>	Famous or not, most countries are reluctant to allow lunatics
>into their borders . . 

Contrary to what many Americans believe, disliking the US and having
a wicked sense of humor is not evidence of lunancy.  I get the impression
that for Farley, things worked out beautifully -- he didn't have to go
on the book publicity tour (which he probably hates ... many writers do)
to LA (which is about as far from Farley's concept of a desirable place
to be as possible) and he got to trot out his old "shooting at the B-52's"
joke from 1968 again + all the free publicity!

-- 

   Peter H. Roosen-Runge, Department of Computer Science, York University
                          Toronto (Downsview), Ontario