Word: unfairness
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...your article on the final game of the World Series [SPORT, Nov. 11], you say the St. Louis Cardinals had feet of porcelain. How unfair to criticize the entire team for the antics of one player, Joaquin Andujar. The Cardinals are a great group of athletes who conducted themselves with class and gave us a full summer of baseball fun. Lu Stephens St. Louis...
...Administration's two earlier proposals remain alive in this one. The bill would cut tax rates, close loopholes, give relief to millions of working poor people and make corporations carry a greater share of the load. Many business leaders, though, claimed that the bill would single them out for unfair burdens. And the Reagan Administration added suspense by momentarily standing back from the debate while trying to decide whether to support the bill...
...quoted Chancellor Joseph Murphy of the City University of New York as saying A.I.A. "was recruiting students 'as a corps of thought police.'" A.I.A. has recruited no students. Thanks to widespread publicity, it has become known that A.I.A. will investigate student complaints of inaccurate instructional material and unfair practices on campuses...
...trade bill providing for a world monetary conference to bring currency exchange rates back into line, export-promotion measures, and new penalties against blatantly unfair practices by American trading partners, but no outright protectionism. If these and other proposals seem designed to rub against the grain of a largely contented electorate, that is no accident. Hart concedes that "there has to be a unifying theme" to his ideas, and he is currently pushing the slogan of a "true patriotism" that requires a "belief in deferred gratification, not materialism." Those are not exactly barn-burning appeals, as Hart acknowledges, but then...
...Controversial Death The armed forces of the Philippines welcome the candid reporting in Anthony Spaeth's "Under the Gun" [May 9]. However, we are troubled by Mr. Spaeth's unfair use of the memory of the late Lieut. Colonel Dennis Villaneuva, a fine gentleman-officer. The article quips that Villaneuva's death is a "mystery worth pursuing," and asks, "Was Dennis Villaneuva a casualty of his employer's shoddiness?" Zeroing in on the facts, the cause of death was a heart attack secondary to massive organ malfunction due to severe loss of blood and/or bodily fluids. He died after...