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The oil companies have made tremendous profits [Nov. 5]. Chrysler Corp. has sustained enormous losses. Chrysler produces vehicles that consume petroleum. Wouldn't it be logical for the automaker to ask the oil companies for a loan?
Lloyd Clark Phoenix
Imagine the possibilities had the Government given Chrysler $10 billion to produce a vehicle that runs on alternative fuels or solar power. Instead, it gives $1.5 billion for an obsolete product.
Steven H. Mosenson New York City
Uncle, can you spare a billion?
John M. Williamson Reedley, Calif.
Crime and Punishment
You were making fun of Islamic justice in the story about the flogging of prisoners in Pakistan [Nov. 5]. You call the floggings brutal, but they provide a lesson the guilty one will remember for the rest of his life. Each stroke also reminds the person who watches that there is law and punishment. I think that is better than letting a criminal out on bail to rape, mug and murder.
Tanveer Hussain New York City
Islam is a complete guide for the whole life of a person. I cannot understand why everyone has to start by writing about its punishments instead of how it nurtures social wellbeing. Flogging a human being in the presence of 10,000 people is sickening and inhumane. More sickening, however, is the way your reporter covered it.
Ghazanfar A. Sheikh McKenzie, Tenn.
Snakes vs. Bureaucrats
Congratulations to Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, the perfect bureaucrat, for completely ignoring the purpose of his office. He fired a man who expressed what Andrus himself should have said about the eating of an endangered type of rattlesnake [Oct. 29] just because he used the wrong sheet of paper.
Andrew Durny Nulato, Ark.
Isn't it the job of the Interior Department to protect animals? Wasn't it Herpetologist Kenneth Dodd's job to warn the restaurant that the snake was endangered? Bravo! At least someone seems to be doing his job.
David Dimston Great Neck, N. Y.
Let Andrus eat crow or cake, not snake.
Dina Anderson Reston, Va.
Princess and Prejudice
With one slip of the tongue, Princess Margaret [Oct. 29] has illuminated the source of a decades-old problem: British prejudice, inspired now by the vestiges of an imperialistic haughtiness, even though the problem virtually laps at their own shores.
Craig Savoye New Canaan, Conn.
Little Princess Margaret Rose has grown into a thorny bush.
Terry O'Duffy Rochester, Minn.