TIME: Almanac 1990/1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso/time/052289/05228900.054

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LETTERS, Page 12

Those Write-In Campaigns


    From time to time, the number and type of letters we receive
on a particular story indicate to us that they are part of an
organized write-in operation. Such letters do not generally follow
a form word for word, but are so similar that they obviously spring
from a common source. Recent write-ins were inspired by the topics
of gun control, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, and the Washington
pro-choice demonstration, as well as a captioned photo showing
cigarette smoking. Often we get a packet of mail from students who
have written as part of a classroom exercise. We welcome all our
letters, but in the case of write-ins we do take into account the
fact that this mail is not a wholly spontaneous reaction from
individual readers.