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Dear Editor British Riots Sadness was my only emotion as I read Norman Gelb's analysis of "The Roots of Britain's Riots" (NL, August 10). After we Americans learned the hard way about the...
...Benjamin B. Davis I think "The Mess in Managua" was a superb exposition of the Nicaraguan revolution...
...New York City B. Emerson Nicaragua Sam Halper's article on Nicaragua ("The Mess in Managua," NL, July 27) was so first-rate, so full of impact, so utterly convincing that it impels me to write to say that I am full of admiration for The New Leader...
...interests, while coping with the extraordinary conflicts occurring within the host country...
...East Orange, N.J...
...Without promising success should America lend a helping hand, Halper rightly holds out a "glimmer of hope" that wccan "slow the drift to Moscow and Havana," a trend that the Nicaraguan government itself finds "unpromising...
...Observe Jimmy Carter's present residence, as well as the Left's fate throughout history...
...I came upon an issue of the magazine by chance about six months ago, and that drew me back as a reader after a long hiatus...
...At that cost, windmills would be two to three times more expensive than nuclear power plants, which cost approximately $1 billion$1.5 billion for 1,000 megawatts (a supply for a community of about half a million people...
...In short, a career Foreign Service officer did a remarkable job under very difficult circumstances...
...He ably represented U.S...
...Weston, Conn...
...Inc...
...The best policy toward Communist or Socialist or Liberal governments is to let them collapse under their own weight, as they eventually must...
...Leftism in any form always has been and always will be a bummer and a total failure...
...New York City Eugene Gantzhorn Nuclear Information Manager Atomic Industrial Forum...
...As Halper shows, the Sandinista's political zigzags and ambiguities reflect the constant interplay of the public and private sectors...
...David Liberson I have one quibble with Sam Halper's factual, fair, even funny discussion of Nicaragua...
...Still, my overriding feeling is that Halper's hesitant scenario for a near miracle based on United States assistance to the Sandinistas-even granting "clearly defined, mutually agreed-to terms"-is plainly a throwback to Jimmy Carter's unrealistic, quixotic nonsense...
...the need to import staples the country used to export...
...New Brunswick, N.J...
...He cites the shortages and bizarre situations caused by confused government policies e.g...
...I find it odd that there was no mention of Ambassador Pezzulo's achievement in an article that was otherwise so thorough...
...I hope we will see more of Halper's reporting on his 40-day swing through Central America...
...After we Americans learned the hard way about the consequences of racism, it's a shame that the British have not benefitted from our mistakes...
...The extraordinary thing about this proposal is that it is no mere opinion-appendage to the article, but a natural inference from the facts put forward...
...His task was not made any easier by the performance of former Ambassador Robert E. White in El Salvador, nor by the Reagan Administration's rather bizarre policy in that country, which certainly affected our relations with Nicaragua...
...Pezzulo was in Nicaragua for about two years, and to my knowledge he handled himself extremely well in that very tough post...
...Great Neck, N. Y. Felix Morrow 1 found Sam Halper's article on Nicaragua highly informative...
...Land states that "wind power" has become commercially competitive with more usual energy sources, specifically nuclear energy, and cites a "giant" three-megawatt wind unit being built for $11 million...
...David Mechanic University Professor and Dean Rutgers University In his comprehensive piece on a very complex subject, Sam Halper cogently explains why the United States can and should help the present Nicaraguan government, with an eye toward strengthening its pluralistic, democratic elements...
...I subscribed again, and since then I have been reading the issues from cover to cover...
...Ambassador there, Lawrence A. Pezzulo, who formally resigned August 18...
...Halper gives a blow-by-blow account of the origin and growth of the Sandinista revolution, the conflicts between radicals and moderates in the Nicaraguan government, the successes of the Communists, and the increasing efforts of Social Democratic and conventionally democratic forces to further their programs...
...This palpably well-informed, objective report closes with a suggestion that we assist the Sandinistas economically...
...I am a bit surprised that he made no mention of the role played by the former U.S...
...Andrew Young might have been wrong that the British "invented racism," but, as Gelb demonstrates in his discussion of the disturbances in Brixton, the evil persists in England...
...He certainly seems to have done his homework-i was impressed with his extensive research...
...Redding, Conn...
...There is no evidence accepted by energy experts to support the article's contention that wind can supply about 20 per cent of the world's energy requirements by the turn of the century...
...That is a distinct contribution...
...Allen Chellas Against the Wind There are several errors about the generation of electricity in Thomas Land's article, "Working Windmills" (NL, June 29...
...Viva Capitalism...
...Hartsdale, N. Y. Mark E. Strook Sam Halper should be saluted for his detailed, insightful compendium of the events surrounding the rise and rule of the current regime in Nicaragua...
...While detailing the economic benefits the revolution has brought to the poor, Halper also does a good job of explaining the effect of the drop in Nicaragua's productivity...
...It is a superb accounting...
...And if that were possible, one can only imagine what the landscape would look like, dotted with millions and millions of noisy, hard-to-maintain, dependent-upon-the-elements installations...
...It provided a perspective on recent events there that I have not seen elsewhere...
Vol. 64 • September 1981 • No. 18
