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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thanks to Commander Bucher and his compassion for the lives of his men [Jan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Thank you for bringing to the attention of the American public the disgusting injustice that has long plagued the Catholics in Northern Ireland [Jan. 31]. Granted, the British have come a long way since the days of Henry VIII-but they still have a long way to come before Northern Ireland comes out of the Dark Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Your Essay on Wasps [Jan. 17] and the readers' response, speak volumes about "the great American nightmare." Aren't they all-or shouldn't they all be-Americans, without so subtly and so childishly reclassifying themselves according to who their great, great ancestors were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...your "People-Smuggling" story [Jan. 31], you chide these fellows for carrying on a "strictly commercial venture." In 1953 such a profiteering fellow led me and five others across the Austro-Hungarian border; the risks were fantastic and he collected a well-deserved $1,000 for each of us after doing an excellent and very unemotional job of it. Later that year he was shot by border guards. He was going back to smuggle out his fiancee. Believe me, no mere profiteer was he, but I would not take a penny less for that kind of an occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...British sufferer from A2 HK-68, I protest against the use of the term "Hong Kong" flu [Jan. 31]. The crown colony was the first victim, not the originator, of the epidemic. The virus was clearly manufactured in the secret mainland laboratories of China, probably under the malevolent supervision of Sax Rohmer's archfiend, the Devil Doctor himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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