OCONNOKR@LEMOYNE (02/13/90)
I'm sorry if I have caused anyone any problems in asking my quesitons regarding Stalin and the massacre of the Armenians. I want all who read this list to know that I ask out of historical curiosity, and not out of any political bent. I mention this because I have received personal messages to the effect that I was taking sides. Thanks, Kieran OConnor OCONNOKR@LEMOYNE
NRCGSH@RITVAX (PROF NORM COOMBS) (02/13/90)
It is fine to appologize for "taking sides", but I think it is totally unnecessary. Obviously, in an OPEN discussion, the views of the writers do not express those of the list nor of the home institution of the writer. Free discussion ought to be just that. I don't know which side you were supposedly to have taken. I guess its even fine for someone not to like that and to complain. Yet, it seems to me that a public appology, while nice, is not necessary. Norman Coombs