Dear Editor

...What about the other issues, though...

...Carter and Kahn therefore decided to end the old system, which had given the airlines the privilege of competing in the largest markets only if they agreed to service the heartland of our nation...

...Meanwhile, in the days of Jimmy Carter, "decontrol" of the economy became a fetish...

...President Carter and the man he chose to head the FAA, Professor Alfred Kahn of Cornell University, were convinced that the airlines themselves knew better than anyone else where they could and should fly...

...Further, Mollison's analysis of today's feminist program is confused...

...did during the Ford, Carter and early Reagan years...

...Seattle Marcus Green Rural Transportation Richard J. Margolis has a very important story to tell in "Sic Paratransit Gloria Omnibus" (NL, June 3-17), and he tells it beautifully...

...Before then, if an airline wanted to fly the most profitable routes— the West Coast to New York, say, or New York to Florida—the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) required it to fly less profitable ones to smaller urban centers as well...

...Legalized abort ion may be desirable (or undesirable, lor that matter), but its denial does not in any obvious way constitute a denial of equal rights to women...

...Even if you assume, with Representative Pat Schroeder (D-Col...

...Later in the same paragraph, however, Mollison seems to go off in a different direction when he says that abortion and nuclcar arms control "bulk large in the feminist consensus of the mid-1980s, quite as the Equal Rights Amendment...

...Ditto for arms control...

...In faci, he embraced the kind of romantic nationalism thai looked with indifference, if not hostility, upon all efforts 10 achieve Continental unity and made no effort to bring the United Kingdom into the European Coal and Steel Community, the immediate predecessor of the Common Market...

...And now's convention was dominated by the unattractively strident contest between Judy Goldsmith and Eleanor Smeal, old-timers who failed in the past to deliver even such very moderate goods as the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA...

...The National Women's Political Caucus put its trust in "a larger coalition" between "have-nots" and "upscale, white professionals"—a strategy that has been attempted many times before and has never worked...

...The result was the termination of flights to many places, and the drastic raising of fares to almost all of the remaining heavily used airports in the country...

...The UN meeting was dominated not by women but by the male governments that sent them, and men actually led many of the delegations...

...Tiso's Slovakia was an eager ally of the Nazis during World War II, actively assisting them in the murder of virtually the whole of Slovakia's Jewish population...

...Hensley neglects to tell his readers one vitally important fact about the Catholic nationalism of the area: its historical leanings toward Fascism...

...Perhaps Slovakian nationalism and Catholicism have been purged of their loathsome features...

...Chicago PETER STERN...

...Above all, they are not limited to buses and instead extend as well to other forms of commercial transportation—notably trains and airplanes...

...It is no criticism of Margolis to say that the woes of rural transport are even more serious than he indicates in his column...

...Pittsburgh Edward Corning Women This summer's meetings of the National Women's Political Caucus, the National Organization of Women (now), and the United Nations' Decade of Women have left Andrew Mollison wondering, "What will women do next...

...Chicago James Beach Churchill's Europe Winston Churchill may, as Norman Gelb asserts, have been one of "those who foresaw the emergence of a United States of Europe" ("Britain Bucks the Community," NL, June 3-17...

...First he tells us that it is "at bottom the same one you remember from the 1970s, summed up in the words 'equal rights...

...The problem began with the rationalization of the railway system following Amtrak's creation in the early 1970s...

...It is rather hard to see any grounds for enthusiasm in these hackneyed developments...

...But like Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—cited disapprovingly by Oclb—Churchill was not "too excited about (he concept...

...These smaller cities serve as the transport hubs of rural areas, and since the 1970s their railways have been steadily savaged in the name of economy...

...But his article on these allegedly important gatherings ("Feminist Reawakening," NL, July 1-15) left me wondering why he regards them as the starting point of "a renewed and determined challenge" to male chauvinism...

...co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, that "the arms race has meant less money and effort going toward long-term solutions to economic and social problems," it is still true that this would hurt poor men as much as it would hurt poor women...

...Do men, after all, have any comparable right...

...In that unhappy year, having already polished off the Sudetenland, Hitler set up the "independent" state of Slovakia under the dictatorship of Father Jozef Tiso, the Roman Catholic priest who succeeded Mon-signor Andrej Hlinka, another Roman Catholic priest, as boss of the Fascist Slovak People's Party...

...At that time half of this country's intercity lines were discontinued—including all of those linking smaller cities outside the most heavily traveled transport corridors...

...Some of us can remember that Adolf Hitler used the resentments of "this long-submerged group," the Slovakians, as a means of completely dismembering democratic Czechoslovakia in 1939...

...Yet Hensley does not reassure me by failing even to mention them...

...Anyone can easily see why the ERA involves equal rights...