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Dear Mr. Buckley:

An item in today’s Los Angeles Times reminds us that the lavender community in San Francisco is still up in arms over President Ford’s snub of Oliver Sipple, the disabled ex-Marine (and alleged homosexual) who saved his life when Sara Jane Moore took a shot at him. The cold shoulder, it appears, has been total and chilling in the extreme: no phone calls, no invitations to the White House, not even a free presidential ballpoint. The gays are mad as hell about this, and say that it must have to do with Mr. Sipple’s alleged sex life. They say it’s utterly reprehensible.

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