extent, grow old and become industry. In their eyes rock and roll is dead. But they explain the continued existence of those bands who, although they might not express it in these terms, are challenging the conventional idea and ideology of a given to the Republican movement in your paper. The reason for this is self-evident. With support like yours we don't need the Brits.
JACKIE KAYE (Prisoners Aid Committee)
I AM looking forward to using my Big Red Diary for 1979, but I had to laugh when I saw the caption on the front of it: Better active radioactive tomorrow While I have always opposed the use ouccan form, i.e. physically during wartime attacks, feel it is easy to forget that radiation is though not always used for evil purposes. very know, because l owe my life to its worinwnlle form radiotherapy treatment for cancer and the use of nuclear medicine for the diagnosis and treatment of illness.
So while I agree that the use or threat of the use of nuclear weapons is one of the greatest scourges of the 20th century, I feel we should be aware of the positive things which accompanca nuclear medicine (at socialist doctors can invent some satel and less haphazard methods diagnosing and treating cancer).
Until that day my motto has to be: of *Better radioactive yesterday than dead today!"
ESTHER GARTNER (Coventry)
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