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Sir: Your account of the Laos Operation Lam Son 719 [April 5] was less emotional and biased than most, until you button up your "report" with the unfair quip citing, as an old Army tradition, "There always is a scapegoat." How would you handle such a failure in leadership? The Army that you tear away at protects your right to do so—and has done so faithfully for almost 200 years.
A.P. CLARK
Lieutenant General
Superintendent, U.S.A.F. Academy
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Shaken
Sir: Your report on "Blacks" [April 5] shook me off my feet when it said that the demand that the U.S. take the lead in politically and economically isolating South Africa was "unrealistic." Does economic necessity really endear the South African to Americans? Paradoxically, is it not American financiers who helped revitalize South Africa's post-Sharpeville economy? Or is it that Mr. Nixon's Silent Majority might be alienated? South Africa also has a Silent Majority, which unfortunately happens to be black.
JASPER M. MSETEKA Lusaka, Zambia
Home to Roost
Sir: In your fine article about CBS's new series The American Revolution [April 5], you neglected to mention the greatest irony concerning the anticolonial Lord North. Namely, that his ancestral home, Wroxton Abbey, is now a branch of an American university.
SCOTT M. HUME
Wroxton College
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Wroxton, England
No Fancy Words
Sir: If the killing of unarmed thousands in Dacca [April 5] by the ruthless military machine of West Pakistan is not genocide, then what is? Don't hide behind fancy words implying that it is an internal affair of Pakistan.
AHSAN RAHMAN
Tunis, Tunisia
Sir: The Pakistanis are bent on exterminating the last living Bengali. The history of the 23 years of Pakistani subjugation of Bangla Desh is clearly indicative of Pakistani attitudes toward Bengalis. The events of the past two months leave no doubts in our minds or the world's mind that Yahya Khan and his Pakistanis are willing to use every method of mass extermination in an effort to keep the Bengalis enslaved.
SHAHRYAR AHMAD
JAMAL RAHMAN
SHAWKAT HASSAN
Eugene, Ore.
Sand in the Giant's Eyes
Sir: Your survey of Israeli opinion [April 12] points up that a large obstacle to peace in the Middle East is Israeli disrespect for the people who contributed to civilization nearly every technical and scientific innovation between 700 and 1500 A.D. Then the Arabs took a four-century nap. May God help his "chosen people" if the Israelis fail to see the awakening giant who is rubbing the last of the sand from his eyes.
JOHN W. FOSTER
Manhattan
Sir: The survivors of the "master-race" syndrome seem to be coming down with a touch of the same disease.
(MRS.) ANN WEINBERG
Brookline, Mass.
Sir: The questions on war and peace cannot be solved on the basis of bravery, laziness, superiority, inferiority or intelligence. Humanism, understanding, lawful rights, integrity and justice are more sound bases for peace.
B. KHOURY
Cincinnati
Saint Who?