Letters: Jul. 6, 1970

Hollow Ring

Sir: In response to Margaret Chase Smith's "Call to Center" [June 15]: It is sad that an overwhelming majority of Americans don't believe that:

Trespass is trespass—whether in the U.S. or abroad.

Violence is violence—whether in the U.S. or abroad.

Arson is arson—whether in the U.S. or abroad.

Killing is killing. Period.

I'll bet Senator Smith's words would ring a little hollow in the ears of several thousand Cambodians or Vietnamese.

ROBERT L. BANKS Los Angeles

Sir: We cannot continue to send American young men to other countries—either uninvited or invited by a government that...

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