LETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Peace Challenge The article by Samuel H. Day Jr., "Captain Coleman's Challenging Job and Why He Decided to Leave It" (August issue), is important because it shows that...
...Robert Leonard Reid Palo Alto, California Capital Colony Capital Colony," by John Hanrahan (June issue), really shook me up...
...It knows that America's vaunted "social mobility" has not only become a nostalgic myth, but is actually undesirable...
...For residences built prior to 1966 there is a monthly charge, but it varies depending on the number of water-using devices in the house, the size of the house, and the lot...
...No wonder The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands on its doomsday clock so precariously close to midnight...
...Voting Rights Amendment and statehood are not either/or approaches...
...it would not remove Congressional veto power over D.C...
...Incredibly, Ruth Lauder believes the initiative won "because most residents did not read the fine print...
...Israel wants peace, but not at the expense of the existence of its people...
...All single-family residences built since 1965 are metered as well...
...laws...
...At the same time, The Progressive's readers should also be aware of what the Voting Rights Amendment would and would not do: While it would give the District of Columbia voting representation in Congress, it would not remove Congressional control over the local D.C...
...showed that the intellectual leadership of the American Right has a world vision...
...You could do worse...
...In the early Twentieth Century, homeowners brought nuisance lawsuits against tuberculosis clinics which moved nearby, claiming that flies would transmit the disease...
...Most of the anti-abortionists are sowing the seeds of this "sin" by their repressive and retrograde beliefs...
...Colleen Hughes Omaha, Nebraska In these particularly dark days, I thank The Progressive, but even more I thank Sherry Matulis for this glimmer of hope...
...The statistics do not support this claim...
...City Council, a majority of the school board, the Democratic State Committee, dozens of activist groups, as well as prominent ministers and business and labor officials...
...League of Women Voters and Delegate Walter Fauntroy opposed the Statehood Initiative when it came up at the last election...
...For a 2,000-square-foot house on an 11,000-square-foot lot, the charge is $20 per month, whether the water is used or not...
...The kinds of hazards I had in mind, of course, are non-human in nature—chemicals, germs, fallout, war—presumed hazards that inspire fear not through their appeal to racism but because they may be physiologically harmful...
...If Time would stop crowing at the trouble the communists are having in Poland and take a careful look at what the workers there are asking for, it might worry that U.S...
...Maybe the artist considers his work to be in the same genre as political cartoons...
...statehood supporter I've ever talked to...
...The seven Arab nations that attacked Israel in 1948 told them to leave, warning that failure to do so would have them treated, at war's end, as "collaborators...
...Frederick W. Plapp Jr...
...I agree that Progressive readers should work to win passage of the Voting Rights Amendment in their state legislatures...
...I'd like to suggest that it's time for a change and that The Progressive ought to play the role of midwife in the process...
...Ruth Lauder Washington, D.C...
...It argues that a competitive market is unstable, that some large companies are more efficient, and that what is needed is more public control over how profits are reinvested...
...September issue) was right on target, but one important ingredient was missing: What have been Buckley's views on women and feminism over the years...
...Allan T. Grant Hartford, Connecticut Your editorial is replete with so much misinformation it boggles the mind...
...It is bordered by hostile nations that do not recognize its existence...
...workers could be infected with the notion of wanting to participate in decision-making...
...I'll stick with it so long as its application doesn't deny liberty to one individual in order to secure it for another...
...Israel, with few allies or friends, is an island surrounded by a sea of oil and money...
...David Nebenzahl Flagstaff, Arizona 'Consummate Conservative' John Judis'sarticle on William F. Buckley Jr...
...Statehood certainly will be a lot harder to achieve with the League and Delegate Fauntroy regularly raising reasons why we can't have it...
...This is, indeed, where we are heading—back to the ignorance of the 1950s...
...As to more public control over the reinvestment of profits, only The Progressive's editors could open that Pandora's Box with equanimity...
...Where should one draw the line between a medical procedure and the taking of a life...
...Lauder tells us that the statehood initiative "will undoubtedly prove to be unnecessarily costly and hard to implement...
...Why does Israel have to send a "concilia-torv" signal to the Palestinian people...
...Later, they may or may not have an opportunity to urge their Congress members to vote for statehood...
...What criteria should be used to decide if and when it is acceptable to end the growth of a fetus...
...Joshua Dressier St...
...The issue is far more complicated than his libertarian rhetoric implies...
...Then, to top it off, 59.7 per cent of those voting on the issue voted "yes" on the Statehood Initiative...
...I Voting Rights Amendment and statehood are not either/ or approaches...
...I've heard this from other members of the League of Women Voters, and am dismayed that they have such a low opinion of District residents' ability to read or to make up their own minds on issues...
...What is needed is for anti-war, anti-nuclear groups to coalesce and run candidates for political office...
...Abortion—a woman's right to choose—is the most crucial matter facing the United States today...
...The connection needs to be made between opposing abortion and opposing sex education and family planning...
...What's needed is for the combatants to back off a bit and reevaluate their increasingly hardened positions...
...residents who want statehood...
...This American Right knows that corporate capitalism is incompatible with political democracy...
...Peter Heirs Oberlin, Ohio...
...I support the D.C...
...If the movement continues to ignore the morality of this issue, though, I believe it will get nowhere— and that will be to the detriment of everyone's human rights...
...If legislators could be convinced that money spent on sex education and family planning would reduce outlays for abortion, the pro-choice movement might have more of a leg to stand on...
...As for Randal's contention that the Federal Government pays for expensive Western water projects, this is not true in Denver's case...
...Paul, Minnesota The author replies: Professor Dressier raises a valid point and I must hasten to qualify my principle...
...There is no mention of Arab terrorism and the avowed intent to drive Israel into the sea...
...Have the Arabs or the world made any "conciliatory" gesture to those destitute Jews...
...His answer, I assume, is no...
...It will need to claim a monopoly of access for the "master class" to education, to health and welfare, to leadership in all economic, commercial, and professional fields, killing the aspirations of the lower classes "by all means necessary...
...it only increases the psychological suffering of the mother who must forever live with the fact that she destroyed her innocent baby...
...It must be hard for all those bright young men and women with good salaries, prestige, fringe benefits, and stimulating associates to know that they are really only technicians...
...Christine Craton Seattle, Washington Sherry Matulis's article was an overly emotional defense of abortion for victims of rape who become pregnant...
...If a building is metered, there is a charge for the meter even if no water flows through it.The amount depends on the size of the meter, but the minimum price is $4.70 for a five-eighths-inch line...
...Bernard Brodsky New York, New York How reckless your editorial is...
...You should have been flagged that there was something haywire with Hanrahan's article when he said that the D.C...
...Only statehood can grant full citizenship to District residents...
...David CP...
...League of Women Voters and Delegate Fauntroy, not the voters, who are out of step on this issue...
...Because of editing (good editing, I might add), the list of those publicly endorsing the D.C...
...Mike Levinson White Plains, New York t had always seemed to me that the American Right lacked a philosophy, a complete, self-contained body of thought, a concrete vision of the world as it ought to be...
...What about the "hazardous" activity of busing for integration...
...Voting Rights Amendment, as does every D.C...
...Democracy often is unnecessarily costly and hard to implement...
...A peace coalition ought to run peace candidates for Congress in the primaries of both major parties in 1982 and, failing there, ought to run independents in the November election...
...The initiative won because most residents did not read the fine print...
...Anti-nuclear groups have made a convincing case for the folly of present policies, but have yet to achieve major impact on national policy...
...Israel takes no delight in humiliating its neighbors, in war, or in revenge...
...The article made it appear that the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment goes against the interests of a majority of D.C...
...budget...
...Philip Marcus Wheaton, Maryland •On Our Backs' Ifound Robert Leonard Reid's Last Word column, "On Our Backs" (September issue), very provocative...
...She states Denver water users pay a flat rate regardless of the amount of water used...
...Patricia M. Brisson Phillipsburg, New Jersey Antitrust Policy In its Comment, "Merger Madness" (September issue), The Progressive questions strict enforcement of the antitrust laws, thus aligning itself with the Reagan Administration...
...In other words, it would not give the people of the District of Columbia the rights of full citizenship that 220 million other Americans take for granted—and that I took for granted until I moved here seventeen years ago...
...In thinking about these questions, I tend to agree with the "pro-lifers" morally, though I side with the pro-choicers politically in this less than perfect world...
...Give that Flynn feller a raise (a small one—in the cause of right and justice, the work is its own reward...
...Wyman Denver, Colorado 'Peace Postponed' I'm deeply disturbed by your Comment, "Peace Postponed" (August issue...
...LETTERS to the Editor Peace Challenge The article by Samuel H. Day Jr., "Captain Coleman's Challenging Job and Why He Decided to Leave It" (August issue), is important because it shows that disaffection with American nuclear policy is not restricted to the Left but extends to the military and a wide range of church-related peace activist groups...
...Whatever water is used is charged at the rate of sixty-three cents per 1,000 gallons up to 30,000 per billing period...
...There is nothing in my article to suggest an either/or approach...
...it would not give the District power to appoint its own judges and prosecutors...
...At face value, this is untrue: Within the city, all commercial and industrial buildings (including multi-family) are metered...
...I disagree with most of Begin's policies, both foreign and domestic, but I do not want to see Israel put in the position of fighting hand to hand in the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, or Haifa, let alone Eilat, Rosh Pina, or Arad...
...can give us District residents is to urge their state legislators to follow the example of Wisconsin and eight other states by ratifying the constitutional amendment that gives voting rights in Congress to D.C...
...Had the editors checked readily available material, they would have known that the D.C...
...Scientists accurately testified that this was untrue...
...One automobile manufacturer...
...Instead of sniping from the sidelines, why not jump in and support statehood...
...When does human life begin...
...After 30,000 gallons, the rate changes, but there is a charge nonetheless...
...Would Reid say the community must have its wishes respected...
...John Hanrahan Washington, D.C...
...But the article on William F. Buckley Jr...
...Such ridicule does not belong in a magazine of your caliber...
...The answer must, however, be "sometimes, yes...
...Robbing Peter refer you to Judith Randal's article, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul" (July issue), and the statements regarding water rates in the city of Denver...
...Your facts are primarily correct, I believe, but you show extreme bias against the position of Israel...
...It would be hard to find a group or an individual who have LETTERS to the Editor worked longer or harder to gain political power for the District of Columbia than the League and Fauntroy...
...I hope this cover illustration is not a precedent for future distortions...
...It believes in a "master class" just as firmly as Hitler believed in a "master race...
...The time is ripe for a new force to enter politics on the basis of this issue and this issue only...
...Is that what The Progressive wants...
...Some 500,000 Palestinians left voluntarily, despite pleas by David Ben Gurion and others that they remain...
...residents can have a voting voice in Congress...
...In these matters of moral conscience, our technological reach now far outstrips our moral grasp...
...And there are millions more who either can't or won't give the matter serious consideration...
...it claims that the "types of people" helped by the Corps will bring hazardous crime to the area...
...Chris Kremer Chapel Hill, North Carolina I found "Abortion, 1954" ex-I tremely disturbing and totally real...
...They and many other thoughtful citizens opposed the poorly drawn initiative, which will undoubtedly prove to be unnecessarily costly and hard to implement...
...residents...
...Simultaneously, the Arab nations expelled 800,000 Jews...
...It included Mayor Marion Barry, a majority of the D.C...
...Statehood Initiative was omitted from my article...
...Only in this way can the nuclear issue be effectively addressed by the general public...
...One supermarket per city...
...Such a principle should not be blindly accepted by progressives, however...
...While anti-abortionists are guilty of attempting to curtail civil liberties by denying women control over reproduction, pro-abortionists leave me with the feeling that they have little or no concern for the moral implications of abortion...
...I would suggest that it is the D.C...
...Max Schleimer Oakland, California The failure of the Arab nations to come to terms with Israel's existence is a greater threat to the eventual stability of the region than is Mena-chem Begin's warmongering...
...I do not...
...RON HAUGE I am concerned, however, by Reid's libertarian rhetorical question: "Should the citizens of a free democratic society be forced to endure a governmental action that rightly or wrongly they believe to be hazardous...
...Anti-abortionists are raising a serious danger to women in all walks of life...
...The recent Congressional hearings on "human life" were nothing but a charade, but the questions raised were valid, and they need to be addressed by pro-choice people...
...She could have put the baby up for adoption instead—even in the 1950s, many couples wanted to adopt so badly that they resorted to buying babies on the black market...
...But I think it could be much better...
...College Station, Texas However ennobling Ronald Coleman's actions were, the fact remains that for every individual act of foresight, courage, and commitment, there are thousands of people who would "turn the key" to initiate a nuclear holocaust...
...Heidi Brandt Tepotzlan, Mexico Abortion Iwant to express sincere thanks for "Abortion, 1954," by Sherry Matulis (August issue...
...Nonetheless, courts ruled against the clinics, precisely applying Reid's principle that people— though ignorant—must have their wishes followed...
...The Progressive's strong points have not included economic analysis in the antitrust field...
...it would not prohibit Congress from taking away parts or all of the limited amount of home rule the District now has...
...Please help to set your readers straight on this issue and thus speed the day when D.C...
...the larger the line, the higher the charge...
...The whole "pro-choice" versus "pro-life" battle has escalated into a hopelessly polarized war of words in which real dialogue and clear examination of the issue become mired in emotional harangue and buzzwords on both sides...
...Adoption is certainly preferable to abortion with the demand for babies as great as it was (and still is...
...I, like he, am profoundly concerned by the long-term risks of the malathion air sweeps conducted in California, and by the willingness of many to place financial factors above health concerns...
...S. G. Jones Sheridan, Wyoming Frankly, it's OK...
...Market stability could be obtained by having private companies agree to fix prices...
...The entire Denver water system is financed through user fees...
...They were simply saying "We want to be treated like American citizens, not colonial subjects...
...The author replies: I fully agree that "the D.C...
...Right now, the help Progressive readers who live outside D.C...
...Here in Minnesota, one wealthy community wishes to prevent the Government from placing a residential Job Corps in its area...
...Howard A. Lisnoff West Kingston, Rhode Island 'Doing Time' That was an interesting article on Time magazine ("Doing Time," by John Tir-man, August issue...
...Abortion does not erase the crime of rape...
...The Right will not solve the incurable ills and contradictions of capitalism...
...Until military spending can be controlled, there is no hope for any political groups seriously to pursue any other issues...
...Marie Hall Los Angeles, California' In ten years as a subscriber to The Progressive, I've never been embarrassed by it until I saw the cover illustration of William F. Buckley Jr...
...rather than saying it is imperative we get it and if that means money and hard work, then so be it...
...S. Andrews Pittstown, Pennsylvania As one who values the information and perspective that The Progressive offers, I find I am uncomfortable with the way the abortion issue is handled by you and other publications of the Left...
...Gaye Williams Cambridge, Massachusetts New Look The new format looks great...
Vol. 45 • October 1981 • No. 10
