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-2- met for a confab in months.

Are you watching AMERIKA, Jack? Any reactions pro or con? Criticism has come from

all quarters, but mainly the left. Liberals charge the film is a "blueprint for Star Wars," and some conservatives think the Soviets may be portrayed as having "compassion." In any event, most Americans can be trusted to form their own judgment of Soviet communism by its record over the past 70 years - and not on the basis of a TV miniseries.

When you next see Doug and Suzanne, please send them my best. They do seem like fine

people - and kindred spirits. Did you know Arna Bontemps personally? I've always been impressed by his writing - as I have with yours. Keep in touch. Cordially, Mel