Dear Editor

...August 28) filters those hopelessly muddied political waters better than anything else I have come across Please don't let another year go by before his next report...

...Demean, Colorado Edward C McGuire...

...It would be a pretty sight, but one that is not about to be seen Niebuhr speculates that the Fulbright resolution has had little effect of the Administration because of the vagueness of the concept of 'Advice1 as one of the Legislature's Checks and Balances' on Executive power' Not true His resolution is an "academic exercise" largely because Fulbright has so little backing...

...DEAR EDITOR COVER DRAWING As a long time subscribe: to The New Leader, I want to express my strong disapproval to the drawing by Barry Geller on the cover page of vogue issue of August 14 I am disappointed at vogue lack of good sense and under standing...

...If your journal is to be an organ of varied opinion consistent with the democratic process it must recognize first and foremost that the democratic process cannot accept or exist in an atmosphere of burning shooting and looting Neither can it allow misleaders to promote and indulge m barbaric behavior Your issue fails to point out this part of the story I for one would rather have the Izvesna straight and not under false colors Afeit Yolk Cit\ S George Greenspan...

...all this sudden constitutional righteousness cloaks their hope that should the President seek congressional participation m Vietnam policy all those post-Apostolic doves hiding out m their Senate nests would fly over the land spreading the Good News of withdrawal...

...Gaul Rapids Mathieu patch Harrison MUDDY WATERS I am delighted to see that Donald Kirk has become your China Watcher" His article ("Chinas Year of Turmoil,' NL...

...BUDDY SYSTEM Reinhold Niebuhr bemoans the lack of congressional participation jinn Vietnam policy ('Without Advice and Consent," NL, August 28) and seems to support the Fulbright resolution calling for clarification of what constitutes a national commitment But since Niebuhr and Fulbright are both on record against the Administration s Vietnam policy there is an unspoken bias to the neutrality of then procedural" approach For it is hard to believe that they are merely interested in oiling the gears of an outmoded governmental pulley system "Checks and Balances' ' Advice and Consent ' Separation of Powers...

...As every responsible person Knows white or black the Negro problem cannot be solved by picturing either side blameless or sinless or accusing those who committed the first injustice by bringing slaves to the U S You cay ton and the two pedestnan articles on the subject that follow fail to direct a part of then attention to the self-defeating attitude of many Negroes finding in white society the scapegoat and excuse for their ills, and a justification for any kind of antisocial behavior on their part...

...In sharp contrast, the promptings of the Stenos committee have created a stun because a call for increased bombing of North Vietnam is clearly closer to the will of the Senate The failure of the President to obtain concessional 'Advice and Consent' may be a blessing in disguise No advice is better than bad advice...

...It is a distortion to the tact??s that the picture depicts for it is a:> crude as any cartoon from the Soviet Pres...

...Niebuhr must laze that we no longer have a system of ' Checks and Balances' but rather a kind of improvised "buddy system ' with the President and Congress pulling one another into deeper and deeper water Although the intention of the buddy system is foe one partner to help the other out of trouble its shortcomings become evident if neither can swim...