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00800	To the Editor of \F1New Republic\F0:
00900	
01000	\J	Your  movie  reviewer Stanley Kauffman describes how \F1Blood
01100	of the Condor\F0 depicts the Peace Corps as operating  birth  control
01200	clinics  that  secretly  sterilize  women  in  Bolivia  "to keep down
01300	elements of the population that may eventually prove  dissident"  and
01400	how  the Peace Corps doctors are castrated in a raid on the clinic by
01500	the enraged population.   He remarks that the  charges  "are  as  yet
01600	unproved"  and  goes on to call the film "a spurt of heat from a fire
01700	that is inarguably burning throughout Latin America".  He  calls  the
01800	film  "sharp  and unsettling", a code phrase for a film that he wants
01900	to  promote  without  having  to  answer  for  its  truth   or   even
02000	plausibility.
02100	
02200		I  am  contemplating a film that will show an evil Latin film
02300	maker and a pinko liberal writer making a deliberately lying film and
02400	using  it to help organize a raid on a hospital and the castration of
02500	the doctors.  To add viewer interest we'll throw in a scene in  which
02600	the  two of them indulge a taste for radical politics and sex torture
02700	on the bodies of the  innocent  Peace  Corps  girls.    Will  Stanley
02800	Kauffman  find  my  film  "sharp and unsettling" and "a spurt of heat
02900	from a fire that inarguably burns in the  heart  of  Middle  America"
03000	even  though  its  charges "are as yet unproved"?   Better yet, we'll
03100	make the writer an editor of \F1New Republic\F0 in order to give  the
03200	Middle Americans something concrete to focus on.\.
03350	
03400						Sincerely yours,
03500	
03600	
03700	
03800						John McCarthy