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Why offer five men $175 apiece to execute Gilmore when, ironically, the same trigger-happy society that breeds Gilmores is also capable of readily providing several zealots who would be delighted to do the job gratis?
Christine Newell Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
I must take issue with the Utah prison psychiatrist who examined Gary Gilmore. Since when is a person who murders without cause "intelligent, very rational and without any indication of mental illness"?
Richard W. Kammerer Philadelphia
I can think of no more cruel or inhumane punishment for someone than to be denied a dignified death by the waffling of bureaucracy.
Jeff Klein Redondo Beach, Calif.
"Where Is the Goals?"
The writing wrongs of entering freshmen [Nov. 8] are no worse than the writing wrongs of graduate-school professors. My husband and I are both graduate students. Here is a sample of some of the comments our professors have written on our papers:
1) Where is the goals?
2) It is also important to find out what is an exceptable solution to a problem or, what problems are considered exceptable by a community.
3) The concept of _________________ is not fully developped.
4) Your right in pointing out needs repairing the latter to assess the capabilities for performing corrections.
5) This work is not of high calaber.
Vicki lucci Ann Arbor, Mich.
Blatant Hypocrisy
Jimmy Carter said he was proud of his church for finally allowing blacks to worship there [Nov. 22]. If it were 1956, I could understand this; if it were 1966, I could feel a sort of relief. But in 1976 to feel proud that your church finally is going to allow blacks to worship in it is blatant hypocrisy. I wouldn't feel proud; I'd feel ashamed that it took the "Christians" of Plains, Ga., all this time to finally start acting like Christians.
John Godar Cincinnati
After the apparent shotgun vote to resolve the problems and embarrassments of "Jimmy Carter's" church, I have one question. What are all those bigots (at least 66) doing in a church that is supposedly Christian?
The screening committee should begin its job with the church's current membership.
(Mrs.) Elizabeth Koski Richland, Wash.
A Slap in the Face
Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel's "Message to America" [Nov. 22] is a slap in the face. As an American, I don't want his "warmest wishes." I want him to stop the rape of Cyprus, where my family lives in despair, my schoolmates number among the dead and missing. I want his 40,000 Turkish soldiers to leave, and the 200,000 refugees to be allowed to return to their homes. This would be a Bicentennial message we would gladly accept.
Constantinos Pavlides, M.D. Kirkwood, N.J.
As a foreigner in your country, I wish to say that Bicentennial messages to America from "antidemocratic authoritarians" are definitely in order.
The U.S. is a country where, as Turkey's Premier Demirel says, the "lack of knowledge of actual conditions in other parts of the world" is embarrassingly apparent to any visitor.