MENSA MESS . . . EDITOR EUTHANIZED

The editor of a newsletter for the Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for people with high IQs, was fired today for publishing articles that called for killing homeless, elderly and mentally ill Americans. Nikki Frey, the editor of "Lament," had maintained that she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive," but the local group's board didn't buy it. No wonder: The newsletter's November issue, publicized more widely in the Los Angeles Times this week, urged that "mentally defective" people be "humanely dispatched" and mourned that Adolf Hitler spoiled a good debate over creating a "master race."