DEAR EDITOR
Dear Editor Royal Unemployment Ray Alan's interesting view into the life of Britain's Prince Charles("The Long March ofthe Prince of Wales," NL, January 12-26) brings to mind Jean Genet's...
...workers are employed in a service function and less than one-third are directly involved in manufacturing goods, mining resources, growing food, or constructing buildings...
...I wonder...
...A wise society realizes that you cannot hold back the change except temporarily...
...The middle rank countries are predominantly industrial...
...Surely, the inequity of a royal life of leisure and wealth is not lost on the poor, the lower-class working man, or the really unemployed...
...The mark of growing prosperity is ever increasing agricultural and industrial productivity...
...Over two-thirds of U.S...
...military secrets to China, a potential enemy...
...To term Prince Charles "a member of the long-term unemployed" is to rub it in cruelly...
...But what if we could produce the food we need with 1 per cent of the population (which we now could), and the goods we need with only a few per cent ofthe population (which may well be the case in the lifetime of some Americans living today...
...A compassionate society attempts to aid those who are hurt by desirable economic change, rather than to hold back that change...
...Dear Editor Royal Unemployment Ray Alan's interesting view into the life of Britain's Prince Charles("The Long March ofthe Prince of Wales," NL, January 12-26) brings to mind Jean Genet's classic play, The Balcony...
...Would it make any more sense to try to reindustrialize America than it would to try to re-agriculturalize it...
...Israeli spying could not have shocked Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger...
...Perhaps, in the best of all worlds, that criticism is not valid, but inevitably it applies to present-day royalty...
...Actually, the United States had agreed to share that kind of data with Israel, but violated its agreement...
...Brockway says, "Take away industry and agriculture, and the rest of us soon won't have much to do...
...But I wonder if that is such agood thing...
...George P. Brockway's iconoclastic view favoring some form of protectionism over free trade ("Finance and Free Trade," NL, February 9-23) correctly implies that a protectionist approach will slow the deindustrialization of America...
...improperly withheld intelligence vital to Israel's defense did he remit it...
...Spying by an ally impressed the public as a betrayal...
...And the richest countries are now predominantly service oriented...
...HeknowstheU.S...
...But I bet we would...
...The Walkers gave U.S...
...The Pollards gave terrorist and Arab intelligence information to Israel, our ally...
...New York City Richabjd H. Shulman...
...If change is held back, then like a stretched rubber band when the adjustment has to be made it hurts more because it is more sudden than if it were allowed to occur gradually...
...The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...The public expects hostile nations to spy on us...
...military secrets to the USSR, our mortal enemy...
...Only when Pollard discovered that the U.S...
...spiesonlsreal, and that any betrayal was in American withholding of pledged information...
...That reduces the proportion of the population that works in making goods...
...The charge of that play is that society's central institutions—the law, the military, and the church—are playing roles rather than performing functions...
...Philadelphia F. Geraäd Adams Director, Economics Research Unit University of Pennsylvania Economic Progress...
...New York City Lloyd McAulay Spying Three spy cases erupted together...
...While the first two transfers endangered American security, the third strengthened it...
...All the poorest countries are predominantly agricultural...
...Rather than condemning Israel, he should have apologized to Israel...
...That maybe literally true...
...We might indeed have to invent something to do...
...Another spy revealed U.S...
...But economic change is what is required for increasing prosperity...
...When will the British face up to this fact and abolish this anachronistic remnant of a more glorious past...
...Yet public indignation focuses on the Pollards, alone...
...All economic change hurts some people...
Vol. 70 • March 1987 • No. 4
