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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: `Debate' suggestion
Message-ID: <372@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 10:34:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 10:34:01 1984
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Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
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Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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In article <174@rlgvax.UUCP> plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (S. Plunkett) writes:

>Why not this:  Each candidate, in turn, is submitted to two one-hour
>sit-down discussion sessions with, say, Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. for one
>session and, say, J. K. Galbraith for the other.  The intent is to
>have each candidate grilled [...] and absurdities seen last Sunday
>night: e.g., a scolding moderator, a partisan and cheering audience,
>insipid questions, dodged and incomplete answers, and not least,
>an utter waste of time for all concerned.

Right on! What a wonderful idea. You should send a hard copy to the
League of Women Voters (the folks who usually arrange the 'debates').
-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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