Dear Editor

...Kudos I feel obliged to tell you that the January 24 issue of The New Leader is in my opinion one of the best There have been other issues of interest to be sine, but the article content of that most recent number brings me to the point of telling you so...

...Edgar L Royce...

...Solidarity in Seattle In mourning, perhaps prematurely the death of labor activism in the Pacific Northwest Richard J Margolis ( 'Strange Silence in Seattle," NL, February 7) overlooks the impressive show of solidarity the city's residents have made in meeting their unemployment crisis A program called Neighbors in Need, organized by church and community groups, distributed nearly 500,000 bags of food to out-of-work families last year Some 1,500 volunteers put in 400,000 man-hours supplying an average of 15,000 people per week That kind of effort hardly fits Ralph Chaplin's description of an "apathetic throng ". Much of the food came from door-to-door collections and individual donations The state's farmers also gave tons of fruit, vegetables and wheat to the cause Even the city's...

...professional athletic clubs lent a hand The Seattle Supersonics basketball team played a special benefit practice session, and the Seattle Totems hockey team solicited 1,000 contributions at one of its games And, m a final ironic twist Kobe, Japan??the "sister city" that received relief shipments from Seattle after World War II??reciprocated in kind Tacoma Wash Glen Hall...

...Word Games In the January 12 New York Tunes James Reston said that it is silly to accuse President Nixon 'of acting against India because he was irritated by Prime Minister Gandhi " What then, is the word to use for Carl Landaulet ('Dear Editor," NL, February 7) calling the President??s handling of his advisers execrable' solely on the basis of Henry Kissinger's comment that 'he was getting hell from the President every half hour'"5 And how to describe Landaulet??s apparently straight-faced assertion that nothing of this sort ever happened during President Johnson's tenure*7 Falls Chinch, Val Sidney Cortez...

...Dear Editor In Search Robert Lekachman concludes his depressing, because undoubtedly accurate assessment of the economy's prospects ("A Sour View of 72 ' NL January 10) with an even more depressing and uncommonly nonpartisan lament ' Abundantly as I think [Richard Nixon] deserves to lo;>e it is not at all clear whether on their present form the Democrats deserve to win ". Therein lies the dilemma confronting a great many Americans especially those of us who have been around long enough to know that neither major party will yield to real reform and that the third-party approach is doomed to disaster What is needed is a reordering (one hesitates to use the tarnished word "radical ) of our politics Perhaps Lekachman having succinctly stated the problem can tell us how he thinks this might actually be achieved San Francisco Richard Kornberg...

...Naperville, III Edward F Lueben...

...The country has had to put up with more than three years of excuse-bonging by Democratic bigwigs and herbal political analysts who know m their hearts that Neon is unbeatable in '72 Each week he sweeps another issue out from under the feet of his challengers By the time summer rolls around, Democratic campaign strategists will once again have nothing to offer the voters but a sincere sort you just might buy a used car from Sacramento Ca...

...Sore Losers I wonder when Democrats are finally going to stop whining about their defeat in 1968 and accept the fact that Richard Nixon won for the simple reason that more Americans thought he would make a good President All this talk about Zeitgeist long-range trends and wheels of fortune (' Nixon vs the Zeitgeist " NL, Feb-rainy 7) is so much horse feathers Gus Tyler's speculations over whether Nixon is the next Grover Cleveland or FDR or Millard Fillmore is a waste of his energy and your space...