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To think that one would have to take a polygraph test in order to be allowed to sell hamburgers is frightening.
STEPHEN HEVER
San Mateo, Calif.
Sir / I have been bilked several times recently by employees of a company that reportedly subjects its personnel to polygraph tests, so this question immediately comes to mind: Are employees ever asked if they have ever stolen for the company as well as from the company? If so, does management hold that a truthful affirmative reply is a virtue in the first instance and a vice in the second?
WILLIAM L. BROCKWELL
Hopewell, Va.
The Family Quarrel
Sir / I can respect any female black's decision not to associate with a crusade that she feels is untimely and unimportant. And I can almost understand why Encore's Editor Lewis interprets Women's Lib as a "family quarrel between white women and white men" [March 26].
But I vehemently resent anyone's indicting the entire middle class of white women! Most of us do not have domestic help, many of us do work outside the home out of need, and the vast majority want an atmosphere of fairness for all women, regardless of color.
If you won't join us, for God's sake don't knock us!
MARY SHIREY
Pittsburgh
Sir / Black women who work and leave young children at home under the care of eight-and ten-year-old brothers, sisters or cousins need day-care centers, which Women's Liberation is working for.
Working women's need for child-care facilities is no "playtoy for middle-class white women."
(MRS.) MILDRED JACKSON
Detroit
Mosaic of Facts
Sir / Congratulations on your statement, "The freedom of the press ... does not belong to journalists; it belongs to the public" [March 19]. Freedom of the press is not primarily intended to convey privilege to journalists; on the contrary, it imposes an obligation.
EWALD SCHUETTNER
Los Angeles
Sir / It is high time that "poison pen" reporters were made to account for their writings I am sick of their crybaby screams of "Freedom of the press!" whenever they are called to account by the Administration. Yes, I want the news, but not colored with personal prejudice.
MORITZ A. KUHN
Milford, Pa.
Sir / My nomination for Man of the Year: the beleaguered journalist.
DAVID GROVER
Gallon, Ohio
Wounded Knee
Sir / You quoted me correctly concerning my suspicions of media manipulation by the American Indian Movement's leadership at Wounded Knee [March 26], but you omitted one observation of considerable importance. I also said that the AIM leadership had refined the craft of confrontation to a remarkable degree, making it pictorial as well as picturesque. They know that a mounted and armed Indian patrol is a rare and newsworthy sight in this century.
As for Sellers' observation that the thing could have been settled in a week without the press, it seems germane to say that Sellers and his superiors could have ended the matter by taking a less intransigent position in the negotiations.
BILL BROWN
ABC News Chicago
Sir / Has our Government forgotten how to deal with Indians? Promise them anything but give them a scrap of paper.