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From: zaccone@psuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Reagan Top Doublespeaker
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Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 07:01:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 28 07:01:37 1984
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The following article appeared in the New York Times on November 21,
1983, but it seems very timely now with the State of the Union speech,
and Reagan's speech announcing that he will run again.

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                      REAGAN TOP 'DOUBLESPEAKER'

DENVER, Nov. 20 (UPI) - The National Council of Teachers of English has
awarded its 1983 Doublespeak Award to President Reagan.

William Lutz of Rutgers University, chairman of the council's Committee
on Public Doublespeak, told the group's 73d annual convention here that
Mr. Reagan had been voted the award for naming "the new MX
intercontinental ballistic missile the 'Peacekeeper.'"  The President
was also cited for his statement that "a vote against MX production
today is a vote against arms control tomorrow."

Mr. Lutz said the award, presented annually since 1974, was "an ironic
tribute to American public figures who have perpetrated language that
is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing or
self-contradictory." Second place went to Col. Frank Horton of the Air
Force, commander of the Grand Forks Air Base in North Dakota, for
describing a Titan 2 missile as "a very large, potentially disruptive
re-entry system."

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                             Rick Zaccone
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