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Your article "Bitter Battle over Bases" [Oct. 9] subtly suggests a shakedown by the Marcos government in the current negotiations over U.S. military installations in the Philippines...
Hugh Sidey's article, "In Jerry's Crystal Ball" [Oct. 16], has to be a tongue-in-cheek story about Jerry Ford. How could he possibly reminisce about what he would have done if he had been given an other four years? He had more time in the presidency than Carter has had, yet what we got from former President Ford was swine flu shots with paralyzing after effects and WIN buttons...
From your story "Lots of Smiles but Few Sales" [Oct. 16], it appears that the generous-but naive-foster parents have nurtured in Japan an avaricious monster. Perhaps it is time for manufacturers, labor unions and the "taxpayer revolt" to demand equivalent protective tariffs, import-license red tape, quotas, etc., for such a shrewd economic predator, who prospers hugely at our inflationary expense...
First the airlines use all kinds of cut-rate fares [Oct. 16] to encourage us to travel with them. Then they turn around and tell us that we are third-class travelers and don't deserve all the good treatment we have been getting. The source of the complaints, we are told, is the "crowd-weary, briefcase-toting business man or woman." How many of these business men or women paid for their own tickets? And how many of them are on expense accounts...
...wonders whether to be more surprised at the blatant hypocrisy of Strom Thurmond in going after the black vote in South Carolina [Oct. 16] now that they have some power, or the naivete of the black voters who intend to support a man who, for most of his public career, considered them a political pariah. If the blacks in South Carolina truly seek justice, let them begin by distinguishing, on election day, between true concern and absolute cynicism...