Letters, Sep. 15, 1980

Jimmy's Victory

To the Editors:

Your cover photograph of Jimmy Carter "Running Tough" [Aug. 25] does the President justice. And, as they say, "when the running gets tough, the tough continue to run," in this case right back to the White House for four more years.

Gerald Bohn Camden, N.J.

"The surrender of our energy future ... of our economic future ... service cuts for the poor and massive inflation for everyone." Carter's speech sounded more like a realistic assessment of the present than a "bleak Republican future."

Eliot Osherman Chicago

I have now decided on one candidate and one program; unfortunately, they are of opposing parties. If the candidates would just switch platforms, I'd have it made in November.

Claudia R. Thomason Prescott, Ariz.

The Democrats call for $12 billion to be spent to create 800,000 jobs. This amounts to $15,000 a job. If the Government will lend my contracting firm $75,000 at a reasonable rate, we will create not five but 25 jobs, and will pay the money back plus interest in two years.

George Farren, President

Rytek Ltd.

Sanford, N.C.

Vice President Mondale tells us that Reagan "will fall like a crowbar ... awfully fast." Everyone knows that in a vacuum a peanut can fall equally fast.

Edward J. Gauss Fairbanks, Alaska

Teddy's Cause

For nine months Senator Kennedy was attacked by the President and his supporters. Suddenly he is expected to em brace Carter and is called cold when he doesn't [Aug. 25]. Rather than merely tolerating hypocrisy in our political leaders, it seems we now demand it of them.

Joseph A. Condo McLean, Va.

What with George Orwell's prophecies and Ted Kennedy's probable ascendancy, 1984 is already shaping up as a rough year.

Barry D. Caiman Cherry Hill, N.J.

Perhaps Kennedy should have quoted a more appropriate Tennyson passage than the one he used:

Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Greg Jour He s University Heights, Ohio

Whose Lives on the Line?

In "Rethinking the Unthinkable" [Aug. 25] you claim that the current arrangements for protecting U.S. leaders in a military crisis are "frighteningly inadequate." I hope they remain that way. Perhaps if our leaders know that their own lives are at stake, they will not be so prone to lay others' lives on the line.

Steven L. Snyder Louisville

Jousting over Jerusalem

Re "Jihad for Jerusalem" [Aug. 25]: Islam has Mecca and Medina; Christianity has Rome and Istanbul. Why is it such an injustice for the Jewish people to declare Jerusalem, which has been their religious center for more than 3,000 years, their capital?

Sandy Delopoulos Belmar, N.J.