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What caused the problem? Was it the companies' reluctance to pay off or was it the dishonesty of some claimants?
John Genung Claremont, Calif.
Pan, Satan or Satyr
In your review of Cartoonist Edward Sorel's Super pen [June 19], you state that Woody Allen is depicted as Satan.
Surely, Mr. Sorel intended Woody Alen to represent a creature known in Greek mythology as a satyr. Or maybe Pan, the great god of nature. Either would have been more applicable than comparing him to the devil. Come on now —Woody Allen the incarnation of evil?
Michelle A. Ott Buffalo
The devil is usually depicted standing, long tail in evidence (spear on end) and pitchfork in hand. His horns are curved, and while he has hoofs, he does not have hairy legs. When a horned god sits on a rock, reed pipe in hand, and displays hirsute lower extremities and straight horns, he is the shy god Pan.
Eleanor Crook New York City
The Cost of Sweetness
I don't get it! Price fixing in the uranium market is illegal. But with the blessings of Frank Church and one-third of his Senate colleagues, 13,000 sugar farmers [June 12] are going to do essentially the same thing. I imagine that if Senator Church were queried about the interests of the average American, he would appropriately reply: "Let them eat cake!"
Michael Roane Temple Hills, Md.
The 13,000-plus U.S. sugar farmers whom President Carter's advisers (and, apparently, TIME) are willing to assign to bankruptcy, produce 55% of this country's annual demand for sugar. They provide important protection for U.S. consumers against the instability of supply and wild price gyrations that characterize the world sugar market.
The price objective included in the bill that 33 of my Senate colleagues joined me in sponsoring is 2.4¢ per lb. above the price in the present program, which expires with this crop. Not by anyone's reckoning does the present support price cover the average cost of production in the U.S Nor do today's world sugar prices meet production costs anywhere around the globe. Those factors, left unresolved, bode future shortages of a basic commodity vital to the U.S. food chain. We must maintain a domestic production capability.
Frank Church
U.S. Senator, Idaho
Washington, D.C