Editor’s Note
The Doonesbury cartoon sequence starting today has sparked controversy because of the serious charges it implies about Vice President Dan Quayle.
Times reporters have investigated the charges twice in the last three years and found no evidence to substantiate them. Quayle has denounced the allegations as “totally without foundation.”
Nevertheless, Quayle said he wasn’t asking newspapers to suppress the strips because Garry Trudeau, the Doonesbury cartoonist, is “entitled to his opinion.”
The strips are being published so that readers can understand the controversy--bearing in mind that The Times’ investigation found that the charges were unsubstantiated.
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