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Dear Editor Wounded Knee I find it amazing how quickly an event fades from sight once the media decide it is no longer worth covering. The most outstanding instance of this, obviously, is the...

...SOL FINESTONE Impeachment Andrew J. Glass reports in "Nixon Under Siege" (NL, November 12) that "The congressional leadership, buttressed by full support from organized labor, has decided that Nixon must go...
...Moreover, the Kremlin cannot be expected to change its basic strategy of subversion and aggression...
...The differences, however, aie vast...
...It is on this basis that Congress should implement impeachment proceedings...
...Philadelphia MELVIN C. LINK Detente As Hans J. Morgenthau reminds us ("The Danger of Detente, NL, October 1), we should not close our ears to the cries of the Soviet heroes, Andrei D. Sakharov and Alek-sandr I. Solzhenitsyn, or to the suffering of the Soviet populations...
...I learned that you cannot trust the Russian government as long as it continues to be totalitarian...
...A few people try to defend Nixon by pointing to the Bay of Pigs invasion under John F. Kennedy...
...They are our best friends I appeal to David Rockefeller, to General Motors, to the Chamber of Commerce and to all businessmen who are out for a buck...
...At the turn of the century, when the U.S...
...The most outstanding instance of this, obviously, is the Vietnam War, which has become ancient history now that it has disappeared from our television screens...
...still needed immigrants, you invited me to come and help build the country in freedom...
...Indeed, the fact that tapes or parts of tapes turn out to be missing merely throws suspicion on Nixon's honesty: hard evidence is still lacking...
...This violates his oath of office to uphold the Constitution, which vests the power to declare war solely in Congress...
...Washington Crossing, Pa...
...The Russian people are our best friends...
...We cannot, should not, trust the Communists before they grant freedom to their own subjects...
...Wounded Knee is a lesser, but still significant, example of the same phenomenon, and Richard J. Margolis ("Return to Wounded Knee," NL, November 26) is to be congratulated for reminding us that the battle of Wounded Knee is far from over...
...Riverside, Conn...
...That mission was carried out not by U.S...
...I think the President is unquestionably subject to impeachment, and entirely apart from the Watergate scandals...
...The U.S...
...Since my arrival in 1902, I have done my bit for my adopted country, but I know I can never repay it in full for what it has offered me...
...I am convinced that the USSR, as a dictatorship, will not, cannot, build socialism, and that it is unable to compete with capitalism in the economic field...
...It will go on supplying weapons against us and against our allies...
...They are not the only ones...
...ALFRED BAKER LEWIS...
...I also learned about the European revolutionary movement, about Socialism and about Communism...
...I am eternally grateful...
...The Kremlin must be denied technological and business gifts, for bribes will not induce that dictatorship to begin giving freedom to its subjects...
...You have been good to me...
...If I had not come, I most certainly would have ended up in one of Hitler's ovens, or in a Siberian concentration camp...
...The Russian people, like people everywhere, yearn for freedom...
...Moreover, Kennedy did not lie as did Nixon, who maintained all during the Cambodia operation that we were respecting that country's neutrality...
...Remember the Kremlin strategy: "The capitalist will sell the rope with which he will be hanged as long as he can make a profit " I appeal to my fellow Americans...
...On the other hand, he did admittedly make war on Cambodia...
...soldiers but by Cubans, who had misled the President and the CIA into thinking that once they had landed on the island, their countrymen would rally to their side and overthrow Castro...
...gave me the opportunity to study, to understand man's greatness and failings, and to investigate our spiritual and physical environment...

Vol. 57 • January 1974 • No. 1


 
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