Air Controllers

To the Editors:

The old truth, that a man is only as good as his word, still holds. I do not want to trust my life to anyone who will break a pledge for his own gain. The air controllers [Aug. 17] certainly knew what they were swearing to when they took the oath.

Catherine Hitchcock Prescott, Ariz.

PATCO missed a critical element in justifying its illegal strike on the grounds that such protest is an accepted means for change in our society. The late Martin Luther King Jr. ably employed civil disobedience in his crusade for equal rights. However, he also...

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