Compassion
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“What I saw was not a pretty sight,” sums up President Reagan as he stands in the middle of an Illinois cornfield in a front-page photo in The Times (July 15). It is astonishing that, with this statement, the President has expressed more compassion for stunted cornstalks than he ever has for this country’s AIDS sufferers. Not a pretty thought.
STEVE HOLLEY
Los Angeles
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