Letters: Jul. 16, 1984

Kremlin Architect

To the Editors:

Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's hard line [WORLD, June 25] is a defensive response to the realization that most of the world now sees the Soviets for what they are. Their government denies freedoms to its people and invades its neighbors. If the West can bide its time and avoid a nuclear confrontation, the Soviet government will eventually collapse from its own deadweight.

Doug Wittmer

Topeka, Kans.

As superpowers, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have the responsibility to set an example for the rest of the world. If these two countries would start cooperating, then most of humanity's problems could be...

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