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 AB> The Hungarian Communists asked the Russians to come in. Opponants of
 AB> Dubzch asked the Russians to come in. The question is, who asked
 AB> Jernigan to come into California. Answer, nobody I know.
The 1970's for us were like the 1960's for the nation.  As a participant
in the legal action against the Minneapolis Society for the Blind, I can
say from experience that there were
immense pressures on many of us, and I do not mean perceived or imagined
pressures.  Calls were made to some of our employers to undercut our
positions, outright falsehoods were passed to newspapers, and I can go
on and on but I won't.  One of the saddest moments for me during that
period was when the Minneapolis Society bragged, with some
substantiation, that Californians who were angry with our national
officers were helping the Minneapolis Society for the Blind in their
proxy battle against us.
I say all of this to convey the fact that I have very strong feelings
about some of the things that happened in California and in Iowa in the
1970's.  My stomach still tightens when I remember how articles in the
Des Moines _register_ were express mailed to blind people here in
Minnesota so they could distribute them on the very day they were
published.  Yes, it is obvious that there still are many of us who have
emotional linkages to some of the events mentioned here, but we're not
going to change it now.  There are enough honest differences of opinions
on today's issues to keep this list active for a long time.
Steve Jacobson
but who am I helping?
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