Dear Editor
Dear Editor Haddad When I first read Gertrude Samuels' interview with the leader of the Free Lebanese Forces, Major Sa'ad Haddad ("Meeting with Major Haddad," NL, March 10), I thought he was...
...Labor Party itself underwent just the transformation he cautions against...
...and the terrorists, but winking is bad enough...
...Labor Party is the instrument of the diabolical machinations of one highly educated, highly elitist man, now a Presidential candidate...
...Labor Party its political arm, and moved it over the years to the farthest Right...
...The results are the same in any case—the death of more innocent people on both sides in attacks and counterattacks...
...Chicago Phil Austin Paper In your "Between Issues" column (NL, March 10), you apologize for the necessary economy of nonglossy stock...
...enabled PLO terrorists to resume their operations in what had been made a "clean area" seemed to me an oversimplification of a difficult situation...
...Labor Party...
...Unlike Gerald Ford's gaffes, Reagan's are insidious: They betray the selective listening of the ideologue...
...It's much easier to read than the highly coated stock...
...But I don't think he will be able to smile his way into the Oval Office...
...John Whitten...
...he has accused Carter of adding 131,000 persons to the Federal payroll, although both Time magazine and the Department of Labor Statistics estimate about half that...
...Andrew MoUison ("Talk-Show Campaign" NL, April 7) expresses understandable concern that "what some reporters look upon as Reagan's greatest weakness—his failure to question the validity of information that seems to support his views—probably will go unnoticed...
...Chevy Chase, Md...
...At the end of the '60s one "Lyn Marcus" (now known as Lyndon H. LaRouche) formed an SDS splinter group into the National Caucus of Labor Committees, made the U.S...
...If it is to be a force for peace in the Middle East, the UN must give muscle to its troops and take greater responsibility for protecting all parties from violence...
...But by now the blunders have grown so numerous that they are finally causing some public stir...
...he has said that the tax cut proposed by the Kemp-Roth bill is no greater than the one sought by President Kennedy in 1963, when the former comes to 30 per cent and the latter was 18 per cent...
...No more direct collaboration has been proven between unife...
...James Rosen Loose Talk The truth will out...
...MoUison is right, however, in pointing to the glamorizing effects of TV...
...It is a good example of how extremists on the Left end up adopting what amount to Fascist tactics, and Brein-del rightly warns us against overreaction to Right-wing groups in the U.S., such as the U.S...
...Even if you should become exceedingly affluent, please don't give us back the glare...
...he has argued that 24,000 GM workers are busy filling out Federal regulation forms, when the figure is more like 3,000...
...In particular, his saying that the arrival of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (unifd...
...Even a partial list is revealing: Reagan has stated that Vietnam veterans, rather than post-Vietnam Aimed Forces volunteers, are excluded from the GI Bill...
...It is interesting to note that the U.S...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...Today it is autocratic and uses systematic brainwashing...
...Northampton, Mass...
...Dear Editor Haddad When I first read Gertrude Samuels' interview with the leader of the Free Lebanese Forces, Major Sa'ad Haddad ("Meeting with Major Haddad," NL, March 10), I thought he was underestimating the difficulty of the UN position in Southern Lebanon...
...Steve Roach Extremism Eric Breindel's article, "Coping with the Politics of Extremism" (NL, April 7), was the fullest, most impartial treatment of the conflict between Britain's National Front and the Anti-Nazi League I have seen, here or during an extended stay over there...
...There is now reason to believe that the Irish troops in the area of Atiri—where Israeli forces took up temporary positions soon after the attack—countenanced PLO bases...
...Indeed, although Breindel's warning is well-founded, apathy would also seem unwise...
...But I think the paper you are now using is perfect...
...When his questioners tried to pin him down on the Kennedy tax-cut allusion used in one of his commercials, he stymied them with a smile and said, in effect, "I'm a busy man...
...It is certainly a much subtler, and perhaps more dangerous, form of Right-wing extremism than the National Front: While the Front expresses the frustration of parts of the British working class, the U.S...
...Consider Reagan's recent performance on ABC's Issues and Answers...
...But when, on April 7, five Palestinian terrorists broke through the border fences and attacked a children's dormitory in the Israeli kibbutz Misgav Am, the charge was tragically borne out...
Vol. 63 • May 1980 • No. 8