douglas@bcsaic.UUCP (douglas schuler) (10/30/85)
NEW TV COMMERCIALS BY HIGH FRONTIER USE KIDS TO PLUG STAR WARS
Trying to counter the brief appearance of television commercials opposing the
SDI by the Union of Concerned Scientists, Danny Graham's pro-SDI coalition,
called The Coalition for the Strategic Defense Initiative (includes the Moral
Majority, Phyllis Schlafly, the Liberty Lobby, Young Americans for Freedom,
etc.) has produced a television commercial that plugs the SDI. The commercial
is scheduled to be seen in twenty major media markets nationwide between October
28 and the summit on November 19.
The commercial shows a child's crayon drawing of a house, car, trees and stick
figures over which a crayon shield is drawn. Appearing suddenly are incoming
Soviet missiles, which are destroyed by the shield. The shield then turns into
a rainbow. The frowning stick figures in the picture start to smile.
The voice over is a little girl's voice that says, "I asked my daddy what this
Star Wars stuff is all about. He said that right now we can't protect ourselves
from nuclear weapons, and that's why the president wants to build a peace
shield. It would stop missiles in outer space so they couldn't hit our house.
Then nobody could win a war...and if nobody could win a war, there's no reason
to start one. My daddy's smart. Support the peace shield."
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Doug Schuler (206) 763-5295
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