Letters, Dec. 25, 1978

Letters

Guyana Horror

To the Editors:

Never has a magazine cover had such an impact upon me. That single photograph of the dead in Guyana [Dec.4] brought the entire Boschian horror into focus. The scene will be forever engraved in my memory.

Michael Swartz Alexandria, Va.

You offend me. I ripped off the cover and all interior photographs, in living color, of the massacre. They reflect the same loss of human dignity that the events in Guyana themselves represent

Nancy C. Warmbrod Huntsville, Ala.

The Rev. Jones, Guyana—my God! It is a stunning, numbing thing. One can only wonder what social errors permit such horrors...

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