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CANNON FIRE

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The hypocrisy of our media elite’s indignation over South Africa was never more evident than in the Outtakes item on Cannon Film’s decision to shoot some of their pictures in South Africa (“South African Connection,” Nov. 16).

Cannon co-chairman Menahem Golan was forced to defend his company’s decision to use South Africa, the unsubtle implication being that to shoot in South Africa meant that Cannon is somehow aiding apartheid.

Interestingly, Outtakes seemed to see little wrong with Cannon using Zimbabwe as a film location, even though Zimbabwe is ruled by a communist strongman, Robert Mugabe, who has spent the past few years butchering members of a rival tribal group, has North Korean and other Communist Bloc advisers training his military and has publicly declared his intention to create a one-party Marxist state.

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The fact that none of this outrages Outtakes shows that the old liberal double standard is alive and well.

LANCE T. IZUMI

Gardena

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