Letters, Feb. 18, 1980

The Big Squeeze

To the Editors:

I would like to know why your cover depicted the paw of the Russian bear caught in a steel trap in Afghanistan [Jan. 28] when it is the U.S. that is behaving like a wounded animal?

Karl M. Rabenold Blue Bell, Pa.

The Soviet military action in Afghanistan is the response to the inconsistencies of Western powers' policies toward the U.S.S.R. in the past. It is appalling to see that while there is a choice of doing something about it, the Western powers choose to wait until it's too late to act at all.

Janko E. Svarc Caracas

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