Letters, May 8, 1972

Escalating in Viet Nam

Sir / President Nixon's resumption of large-scale bombing of North Viet Nam is the appropriate answer to that country's enhanced aggression against South Viet Nam [April 17]. That an aggressor army, equipped lavishly with the most deadly implements of war, should be allowed to ravage its neighbors while its own homeland remains exempt is ridiculous.

And let the Soviet Union refrain from fueling strife throughout the world if it is genuinely desirous of reaching a state of accord with the U.S.

EUGENE S. COOPER

Los Angeles

Sir / Escalating the...

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