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Your article "The Great Vatican Bank Mystery" [Sept. 13] was a cheap shot. Banco Ambrosiano, with small I.O.R. holdings, can hardly be called a Vatican anything. Roberto Calvi was probably guilty only of greed and poor judgement. Italy's leaders, who are anticlerical, should not be allowed to divert attention from their economic bungling to the thin Vatican connection. Banco Ambrosiano is just another example of the weakness of the world banking system...
However, Horner said yesterday that "nobody has been remiss in judgement regarding the leakage problems. She added that the situation was so unusual that the original contractors and experts failed to realize at first the need for the structural analysis now being conducted...
...Richard Nixon offended us because Nixon evaded liability for his action by using his contacts within government, when a friendless outsider, a loser like Hinckley, is let off there is, at least, no collusion to abhor. Whether the jury last week correctly deemed Hinckley insane will always be a judgement call. But the fact that he could win his reprieve from a system whose participants were predisposed against him seems worth applauding for a moment-no matter what the outside world thinks...
...make substantive judgements in your own mind as to whether you think someone's work in physics is as good as someone else's. You make the kind of judgement a judge makes.' President...
Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49 speaks for many of his colleagues when he calls the serving of alcohol "certainly a matter of discretion." with no mandatory way of hosting open houses or dances. But the masters have had difficulty balancing this long tradition of independent judgement with simple alcohol guidelines. The fragile nature ot this issue necessitates examination of another way to administer alcohol rules. not continued private discussions and finger-crossing...