Dear Editor
Dear Editor Reviving Stalinism In assessing the men who have lately been rising to the top in the Kremlin, Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova ("Andropov and After," NL, January 23) have...
...New York City Zachary Tisdale...
...I find little to admire in the recent statements of the Italian President...
...On the contrary, like too many old Socialists he seems to me to harbor a dislike for Israel that borders on anti-Semitism...
...I myself would not nominate the U.S...
...Then there is Perrtini's declaration that the United States and the Soviet Union follow the "identical imperial logic," and therefore are equally responsible for the world's troubles...
...How else can one explain his demand that the Israeli government must continue to be held politically responsible for the massacre of the Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila, without any reference to the fact that the hideous murders actually were committed by Christian Phal-angists...
...The empire badly wants a ruler who, if he is not able to restore the past, can at least create the semblance of such restoration...
...But clearly the Italian President's view suggests that he ought to stick to ceremonial matters...
...He focuses instead on the obstreperousness of the oc-togenerian former Socialist Party leader, who refuses to be silenced by the fact that under the Italian Constitution the role of the Chief of State is meant to be merely ceremonial...
...What Pertini inexplicably sees as protection, Jerusalem no doubt looks upon as interference...
...It was, after all, the United States that twice stopped Israel in its tracks in Lebanon...
...They write: "The [Soviet] empire itself, on different levels of its consciousness—from a general to the man in the street—feels the necessity for a strongman with Stalinist ideals of governing, with the experience of police work over many years...
...for sainthood...
...Marines were sent to Lebanon to protect Israel, not to help bring peace to the war-torn nation and preserve its identity...
...Philadelphia Ronald Ginzburo Special Pleading I read Richard J. Margolis' column on "How to Reach the Rural Voter" (NL, January 9) with much interest for two reasons...
...If anything, from Senigallia's tone one has the impression that he is rather amused by the political shock-waves set off by Pertini, whom he describes as a man possessing "unassailable integrity, dignity and faith in democracy...
...Yet his piece—quite effectively, it should be said—calls upon the Democrats, and specifically party Presidential front-runner Walter Mondale, to do just that...
...These are the very things average Americans everywhere worry about...
...Nevertheless, I find it difficult to accept Solovyov and Klepikova's conclusion...
...Dear Editor Reviving Stalinism In assessing the men who have lately been rising to the top in the Kremlin, Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova ("Andropov and After," NL, January 23) have provided a rare authentic glimpse of the next generation of Soviet leaders...
...Do they long for the return of Josef Stalin's iron-fisted rule, for again being cut off from the rest of the world by the Iron Curtain...
...Los Angeles Courtney Gaines Pertini's Politics Silvio F. Senigallia, in his article on "Italy's Outspoken President" (NL, January 23), pays little attention to the substance of Sandro Pertini's words...
...Do the people of the Soviet Union really want the return of severe personal deprivation, forced labor, the Great Terror, and all the other horrors that were Stalinism...
...Even more revealing is Pertini's claim that the U.S...
...That is why the death of Andropov will change nothing: Whoever replaces him will do exactly what he is doing—but inevitably being a less sophisticated personality, he will do it more harshly...
...None are terribly appealing...
...First, as an avowed liberal, I'm sure Margolis would agree that pandering to particular segments of the population is one of the less attractive aspects of the electoral process in this country...
...Their major worries, as Margolis details them, are decent jobs, adequate housing, affordable health care, being able to give their children a good education, and preserving Social Security...
...Secondly, such a strategy hardly seems necessary where rural voters are concered...
...I don't think so...
Vol. 67 • February 1984 • No. 3
