Letters
Letters Encore Congratulations to Hedrick Smith on personally evaluating the impact of NAFTA on rank-and-file workers in Mexico and the US. (‘A Fast-Track Reality Check,” Jan./Feb. 1998)! I...
...For all you know, he inherited money or even saved more out of his pay...
...Letters Encore Congratulations to Hedrick Smith on personally evaluating the impact of NAFTA on rank-and-file workers in Mexico and the US...
...Dale Bumpers’ critique of the outdated Mining Law of 1872 (“Capitol Hill’s Longest-Running Outrage,” Jan./Feb...
...Double Standard Concerning your criticism of the government’s overly generous pension plans (“Tilting at Windmills,” March 1998), I doubt that you can name one company that cuts pensions because both spouses worked for that company...
...Similarly, Worth condemns affirmative action for not solving black poverty, It isn’t a poverty program, and ought not be blamed for failing to solve problems it was not designed to solve...
...Later in the column Mr...
...You’d be hot after any company that tried such a stunt...
...Significantly, the commercial logging program, which is supposed to make money, lost $204 million...
...JULIAN BOND CHAIRMAN, NAACP NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Washington, DC Robert Worth replies: Julian Bond is quite right about the injustice of the legacy preference, and we have argued the same point (See “ Why Are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges...
...But that doesn’t change the fact that minority preferences have proved just as divisive and stigmatizing as Martin Luther King Jr: said they would...
...1998) and for the dart thrown by Charles Peters (“Tilting at Windmills”) at money-losing timber sales in the national forests...
...That is ridiculous...
...The Wilderness Society, using the Forest Service’s own figures but including logging-related costs that it ignores, found that the agency’s “commercial, stewardship, and personal use” logging programs actually lost $458 million - not $14.7 million - in fiscal 1996...
...in the June 1991 issue...
...Both practices are indeed antiquated rip-offs of taxpayers that benefit big mining and timber interests at the expense of the public interest...
...Unfortunately, the fiscal and environmental damage done by the US...
...We believe it is time to end the outrageous timber industry roadbuilding subsidy and to protect all remaining roadless areas in the national forests...
...Peters wonders what an impeachment trial of Clinton would be like and refers to hypothetical questions like “And what happened after he unzipped his zipper...
...Planned Parenthood has done the woman grievous harm...
...His article is one of the few I have read that tells the story...
...Odd there is no stigma attached to the thousands of whites who got into college as legacies because Dad was an alumnus, or those who got jobs because Dad was president of the company...
...White suspicion of black capability predates affirmative action by centuries...
...Affirmative action is a series of programs designed to conquer white supremacist attitudes in university admissions, hiring, and promotions - attitudes that affect Bill Cosby’s children as well as the child of a welfare mother...
...God forgives not the pro-choice movement...
...And your comments about the type of car Betty Currie’s husband, a government retiree, can afford could have used reporting rather than assumption...
...That was the argument made against integrating buses in Montgomery in 1955...
...Those who want to see the world in terns of clear blacks and whites will not find comfort in the Monthly...
...The national forest roadbuilding program that supports these commercial logging sales also causes damaging mudslides and pollution of drinking water...
...No one beat Rodney King because he was poor...
...Hot Air There must be something in the Washington air that makes news media types play fast and loose with words concerning allegations against President Clinton...
...Finally, Worth resurrects the old charge that affirmative action creates a stigma in its beneficiaries...
...I hope he will elaborate in future articles on what is happening in Mexico’s rural areas as well - the largest migration in this century is occurring without much of a peep from those who should care...
...WILLIAM H. MEADOWS PRESIDENT THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY Washington, DC Race, Not Class In his screed against affirmative action (‘Beyond Racial Preferences,” March 1998), Robert Worth recycles arguments as old as the first attempts to challenge white preferences: Insisting on equality makes white people mad...
...on Clinton, so we’re pleased to see that there are readers who disagree...
...He also quotes Molly Ivins who says she doesn’t care “who he’s screwing, as long as it’s not the public...
...King opposed them not because they “made white people mad, ” but because he believed a broadly classbased approach would serue justice better...
...DONALD E. SMITH Sun City West, AZ Charles Peters replies: The Monthly has ofen been accused of being too so...
...A woman has allowed the murder of her baby, but Planned Parenthood feels that all the mother needs is permission from a pro-choicer to grieve...
...LAUREEN GONIWICHA via e-mail Timber Crimes Three cheers for Sen...
...Why the psychobabble about a compassionate embrace of the whole woman in the entirety of the trauma...
...Charles Peters, for example, in his last column wrote that he was troubled “by the way [Clinton] seems to be hitting on women who work for him!‘ Then he states that he “suq~ectbt]h at this has less to do with his power over them than with the fact that they happen to be around.’’ That is pure speculation not based on facts...
...Forest Service’s logging program is even worse than you indicated...
...FRED GUF Concord, NH pension incomes that will be received this year by retired Congressman Hastings Keith: $6,682 a month for his civil service pension, $1,546for his military service, $l,324for Social Security, and $871 a month in widower’s annuity for his wife’s senlice in the CIA -for a grand total of $125,976 a year: As to the financing of Mr: Currie’s Mercedes, the writer is of course correct in noting that there m y be other explanations...
...The inclusion of the survivorship pension as somehow excessive is beyond the pale...
...22 its intention to halt roadbuilding in many national forests, but to leave 15 million acres of national forest lands in Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado unprotected...
...We don’t want the president impeached, and we don’t want him to have to go through a trial in the Paula Jones case, but we have to be candid about our strong suspicion that, as to his telling the truth in regards to his personal affairs, the president will rank among the leading minimalists ofthe late 20th century...
...Yes, there must be something in the Washington air...
...The Forest Service announced on Jan...
...You never see them walking around with heads held low, moaning that they’ve lost their self-esteem because everyone in the executive washroom is whispering about how they got their jobs...
...Again, an effort to be cute by Molly without any factual basis...
...MARCY KAPTUR D-Ohio It's a Sin There is nothing so sad as the statistic quoted in Jonathan Dube’s article (“After the Abortion,” March 1998) stating that 1.4 million abortions are committed each year...
...At least let someone else help her recover...
...That kind of writing belongs in the tabloids at the supermarket...
...If we give in to the Negroes, they would go around boasting of a victory they had won over white people,” a bus company official said...
...REP...
Vol. 30 • April 1998 • No. 4
