Dear Editor
Dear Editor Nasser and Britain Regarding Eliahu Salpeter's "U.S. Muscle in the Middle East" (NL, October 19), may I utter a demurrer. Discussing Nasser's achievements, which he thinks overrated,...
...By the way, when I talked to Caffery in his Cairo office some years ago he had The New Leader on his desk...
...As to abortion being a preferred method of birth control, no women's rights group has ever advocated abortion as anything but a back-up measure upon the failure of other contraceptive means...
...On the subject of women's demands for equal employment opportunities and rewards, Goodman states that "what really irks the career-oriented spokeswomen, however, is the denial of the key to industry's executive suites and washrooms...
...This means that many more than that figure receive inadequate supervision from older children or relatives...
...Jefferson Caffery, U.S...
...Rather than undergo a period of "Sensitivity Training" to women's lib goals as Goodman suggests, perhaps he should simply try self-examination to discover why he finds equality for women so threatening...
...Boston, Mass...
...The facts are that proper medical abortion (as seen in British, Eastern European and Japanese figures) has a much lower death rate than childbirth and immensely lower than tonsillectomy...
...And voluntary abortion is absolutely necessary if women are to finally have control of their own bodies and lives due to the failure rate of all known contraceptives: If every woman of child-bearing age in the U.S...
...In fact, London attempted to write provisions into the treaty with Nasser that would allow them to return under certain circumstances...
...Does it apply to Gibraltar, say...
...Discussing Nasser's achievements, which he thinks overrated, Salpeter denies him credit for helping to eliminate the British base in Suez, saying "the British sought to liquidate their bases as soon as possible, a process Nasser could not have stopped even if he had wanted to...
...Labor Department statistic...
...New York City Sam Halper Women's Lib Walter Goodman's glib and shallow observations about Women's Lib ("Fair Game," NL, October 19) require an answer stating the facts, of which he is apparently ignorant...
...The facts are that nearly 1 million American children whose mothers work daily are without adult care (U.S...
...This is a glib generality...
...Goodman refers to voluntary legalized abortion as "this masochistic and relatively dangerous form of birth control...
...Ambassador to Egypt at that time and principal middleman in the negotiations that removed the British from their base, told me--and others, I am sure--how the British tried to hold on to their Suez enclave...
...This attitude does not amuse many women, since they are thinking in terms of school vocational opportunities (girls' vocational schools teach them only to be dressmakers or hairdressers), union apprentice programs, and the difficulty of finding professional jobs for the girls who have succeeded in convincing the admissions boards of medical, engineering or law schools of their determination to control their bodies' reproductive systems (by illegal means, if necessary) long enough to enter a profession...
...He states that day care centers "are seen as places where middle-class young mothers may deposit their babes while they go to the office, visit museums or cultivate affairs, as temperament dictates...
...took the contraceptive pill (the most effective method of birth control in use today) there would still be 250.000 unwanted children born each year due to human and chemical failure...
...Laura Rasmussen...
Vol. 53 • November 1970 • No. 22
