Letters, Aug. 14, 1978

The Dissidents

To the Editors:

My heart ached when I read of the fate of Anatoli Shcharansky and other Soviet dissidents [July 24]. Their only crime is the love of freedom.

Carolynn Calabro Reedley, Calif.

The Shcharansky trial has proved again that Henry Kissinger's detente was a stillborn child. Previous Administrations did what Christ warned against 2,000 years ago. Kissinger saw the Soviet wolf scrambling into a sheepskin and sat down to wait for it to eat grass.

Leon Rabinovic Honesdale, Pa.

So President Carter should "choose carefully" whether or not he should protest the horrible...

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