Dear Editor
Dear Editor Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Understanding Communism" (NL, August 4) effectively challenges the cries of some—in this era of detente symbolized by the recent Apollo-Soyuz...
...However, belaboring this obvious and trivial point is not going to help the Democrats in 1976, if that is his intention...
...in the Mayaguez incident was not and cannot be considered a victory of any kind...
...J. Albert Forest Poetry Critic As a resident of New Hampshire, I read Kathy Starbuck's "The Poetry Critic" (Correspondents' Correspondence, NL, July 7) with particular interest...
...People in the East should without exception be concerned about what people are thinking in the West...
...As the unemployment levels continue to "bottom out," the average American is finding himself, for all practical purposes, high and dry...
...The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all...
...Our military action in Cambodia, with its specific objective of regaining the Mayaguez and its crew, was not only justified by the circumstances but was necessary to demonstrate to our few remaining democratic allies that we are not blind men blundering through the maze of world politics...
...As Solzhenitsyn stated in his Nobel lecture, " all internal affairs have ceased to exist on our crowded Earth...
...While missions of moral sanctitude come as no surprise from Governor Thomson, his latest effort really puts the icing on the fruitcake...
...Manchester, N.H...
...Instead, he chooses to tell us that Ford's days in the White House have not been a succession of triumphs...
...was in such a legally and morally correct position...
...His fantasy was not only humorous but was almost believable in the current recession, Alan Greenspan notwithstanding...
...Goodman fails to realize that a nation, any nation, must stand up for its rights when it is in a legally and morally correct position and its ability to handle its own foreign affairs is open to question...
...Bernard Kesten Mayaguez In his column entitled "The Good Ship Mayaguez" (NL, July 7) Walter Goodman takes issue with the actions of President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger with regard to Cambodia and the Mayaguez affair...
...What would help the Democrats is to call Gerald Ford to account for his numerous vetoes...
...Dennis Deegear Practical Economist I thoroughly enjoyed Richard J. Margolis' "The Practical Economist" (NL, July 21...
...This being the state that has "Live Free or Die" on its automobile license plates, one gets a fair idea of the ability of its politicians to make esthetic choices for their constituents...
...Granada Hills, Calif...
...Donald Boyd...
...The Mayaguez was in international waters and the Cambodians did fail to respond first to requests and finally to demands for the return of the vessel and its crew...
...and the USSR would be "meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation...
...actions in Vietnam and Chile have amply demonstrated the lack of control that American citizens have been able to exercise over their government's activities in other countries...
...Madison, Wis...
...Dear Editor Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Understanding Communism" (NL, August 4) effectively challenges the cries of some—in this era of detente symbolized by the recent Apollo-Soyuz mission—that any attempt to set conditions for cooperation between the U.S...
...Baton Rouge, La...
...Goodman is, of course, correct in saying that the success of the U.S...
...people in the West should without exception care about what is happening in the East...
...If narrator Finchmale hadn't implied that the "average American" has an "average American job," I would have thought that the piece was fact rather than fiction...
...Past U.S...
...Unfortunately, Goodman refuses to recognize the tremendous political capital that Ford has so far been able to generate through them...
...The U.S...
...Furthermore, the ability of this country to manage its foreign affairs was and is open to question...
Vol. 58 • September 1954 • No. 17
