Letters
Letters Misplaced Missiles With You” (September) pronounced a fact that may either be an error or a revelation. Ms. Cottle stated: “The footage of U.S. Patriot interceptors exploding in the...
...it is rather that the generous nature of the safety net available to them, especially when their home life is unpleasant, may well attenuate any inborn or cultural restraints on their sexual behavior...
...PETER D. JOHNSON JR...
...She leaves out the possibility (some would say “the fact”) that teenage girls in unpleasant family surroundings, realizing that the state will provide them with an apartment of their own and enough money to scrape by if they become pregnant and deliver a child, may well violate certain age-old taboos against premarital sex and childbearing out of wedlock...
...It is so difficult to resist the notion that being right will justify any behavior that will spread the word...
...Though I am as far as possible from being a Clinton fan, I find Peters unreasonable in blaming him for a situation centuries of lawmakers have wished on the presidency by the profligate passage of laws-more for their own advantage than in the national interest-that the administration is bound to execute...
...In 1990, Planned Parenthood of Suffolk County (New York) launched a defensive letter-to-the-editor campaign in which a Planned Parenthood “staff member writes a timely response to a letter-to-the-editor and sends it to you for signing...
...I have contact with many people in many states who certainly do not find that to be true, nor do I. THELMA E. WRIGHT Salina, KS One Strike, You’re Out You’ve got to be kidding...
...I’ I saw Patriot missiles exploding over Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other places...
...ERNEST F. SMALL Orange Park, FL Circumstantial Evidence Shame on you for implying that because G. David Schine married and had six children he was not gay (“Tilting at Windmills,” September...
...Snakes of a Different Color Charles Bailey’s article in the September issue titled “Snakes in the Grass” describes the manufacturing of a virtual grass-roots movement by “slick corporate lobbyists,” but omits the earnest nonprofit interest groups that are easier to love...
...I’m asked to support welfare “reform” on the premise that everybody should work...
...As Barney Frank once said, those are the last people on earth we want out in the community...
...Wages, conditions of employment, hours of work, vacations, pensions and other matters are determined by the agreement (contract...
...Does that include those bums who bilk old people out of their life’s savings in confidence games...
...KIM BRUNO via CompuServe Michelle Code responds: My humblest apologies to any readers who lost sleep over the thought of Saddam Hussein amassing his own stockpile of Patriots...
...This “live-at-home requirement” seems like a miracle, a truly good idea stumbled upon by politicians...
...SIDNEY GENDIN Ypsilanti, MI...
...As a non-economist whose training in these matters comes from media pundits and financial advice columns, I hear this trade-off cited daily as if it were a law of nature...
...Why not try breaking their legs and throwing them in overcrowded prisons...
...Something we learned in Sunday school, I suppose...
...This was to counter a large number of letters from people who expressed antichoice views...
...while on another page of the paper I’m told I should be pleased that, as a matter of policy, 5 percent of the labor force will not be allowed to...
...WILLIAM TAYLOR Atlanta, GA Layoffs and Tradeoffs In his review of John Kenneth Galbraith‘s The Good Society (September), Paul Krugman writes that “it has been a long time since any substantial number of economists believed in a significant long-run trade-off between unemployment and inflation...
...STEVEN HELMLING Newark, DE No Place Like Home Amanda Ripley’s well-written and compelling piece in the September issue (“Stay at Home, Moms”) provides a perfect example for the argument that post-l960s, ultra-liberalism is doomed...
...And despite the chaotic state of affairs in the Persian Gulf...
...I have been assured that at no time has the United States ever defended Baghdad with Patriot missiles...
...First of all, both unionized and non2union employees are governed by the national agreement between the unions and the Postal Service...
...While some younger gay men and lesbians have children, marry, or both, this is clearly no longer the norm...
...Letters Misplaced Missiles With You” (September) pronounced a fact that may either be an error or a revelation...
...Nevertheless, those who reached adulthood in the 1950s and 1960s (and I suppose earlier) did marry...
...Only when the matter for a grievance violates the contract can one be filed...
...Perhaps American arms merchants were true to their creed as described by Undershaft, George Bernard Shaw’s protagonist in Major Barbara: “To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them...
...Tilting at Windmills,” July/Aug...
...For now, the state has no idea why...
...however, if they exploded over Baghdad, then Saddam Hussein must have purchased a few Patriot missiles...
...Schine’s sexual preference...
...Approximately half of our members who are aged 40 and above have been married, and most of them have children...
...To thispublication ’s knowledge, neither the Pentagon nor Raytheon has broken into the Iraqi market...
...But politicians create issues to get themselves elected, and legislators make laws to keep themselves in office...
...Fines, confiscation of property...
...With this thing in place, young women might have an incentive to resort to more traditional means of escape from a bad scene: get an education, get a job, or get married...
...Patriot interceptors exploding in the night sky over Baghdad...
...The state” may have no idea why, but anyone who was ever a screwed-up teenager has a pretty damned good idea why...
...As to the mail not being delivered on time, I do not believe that happens often...
...TED M. HOPES Glendale, AZ Clinton’s Dilemma Charles Peters writes in his September piece about Bill Clinton (“Why I’ll Vote for Bill Clinton-and Why I Still Worry About Him”) that he is concerned with Clinton’s apparent disinterest in the activities of the people he has chosen to run his administration...
...if the Congress had so limited its lawmaking-ceding to the states and their people as much self-government as the Tenth Amendment implies-the president and administration would not be smothered in trivia the states could very well handle for themselves...
...The explosions that television audiences saw over Baghdad were ?om Iraqi antiaircraft fire...
...community service” for those who are guilty of nonviolent crimes...
...I belong to an all-gay men’s service organization...
...Ripley writes: “Last year, Massachusetts implemented the live-athome requirement as part of Governor William Weld’s welfare overhaul...
...I do not believe the framers of the Constitution intended it to deal with more than the union between the separate states and their common defense against foreign powers...
...I am not saying teenagers become mothers by calculation, because of the governmentprovided goodies available to them...
...As a middle-class professional with a retirement portfolio, I am advised constantly that unemployment below 5 percent is bad news for me...
...Your “inconvenient facts” tell me nothing about Mr...
...Since implementation, the number of teens receiving welfare in Massachusetts has dropped significantly...
...Through Rain, Sleet, And Red Tape An item in your September issue was certainly misleading at best (“Tilting at Windmills...
Vol. 28 • November 1996 • No. 11
