Letters, Mar. 18, 1974

Excuse for Banditry

Sir / Heaven help, our country if the Symbionese Liberation Army is allowed to succeed in this terrible Robin Hood effort to force the rich to share with the poor. The Hearst kidnaping is a gross crime and the ransom merely an excuse for a revolutionary group of pitifully misled people to take the law in their own hands. Why can't they see the far-reaching effects of their revenge? Without obedience to law there can be no order or justice in life.

MARTHA GROWNEY

Roeland Park, Kans.

Sir / The appeasement of his...

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