Letters, Jul. 30, 1979

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It makes my blood boil to see the belligerent stance you take against OPEC.

Since the principle of rule-or-ruin has failed, the only option left to the shortsighted ex-rulers is to scream and call the oil exporting countries names more becoming of themselves for their predatory exploitation of the same countries during the past century.

Razach Monem Winterthur, Switzerland

The OPEC nations are actually supplying the incentive for their own replacement in the marketplace by making alternative energy sources competitive with petroleum. They are doing the world a great favor.

William E. Hensley Jr. Angleton, Texas

To the Arabs, this is war. They have told us many times that they will keep tightening the screws until we pressure Israel into returning Arab lands. They regard us as partners of Israel in their war.

Walter J. Knapp Columbus

I have found that there's at least one bright side to this energy mess: the high you experience when at last you succeed in refueling your car. It is like the caveman who knocks over a marauding dinosaur with one blow of his club: you feel as though you could lick the world−momentarily, at least.

Shirlie Stoddard Pacific Grove, Calif.

A Matter of Life and Death

In "The Fanatical Abortion Fight" [July 9], Congressman Henry Hyde is quoted as saying, "A constitutional right to want something doesn't mean the right to have the Government pay for it." Is Hyde aware of the federal money spent on children who were born but not wanted? Or of the federal money−my tax money−spent on children whose parents cannot support them?

H. Page Tiller New Orleans

As the oldest of eleven children (all married), I'd like to point out our combined family numbers more than 100 who vote only for pro-life candidates. Pro-lifers have children, pro-choicers do not.

(Mrs.) Kitty Ruckenback Montgomery, Ala.

Antiabortion groups are conducting battles not unlike those conducted during a holy war. Through hateful propaganda ("baby killers," "murderers," etc.), harassment, disregard of other people's civil rights and often plain violence, they attempt to force their own perception of morality on everyone else.

Ufa Landy, Executive Director National Abortion Federation New York City

The important thing to realize is that no one considers abortion a morally insignificant form of birth control for the careless. It is rather an emotionally painful decision that is arrived at after a great deal of thought and soul searching. Women have abortions only when the alternative is unendurable.

Stacy Seldin Flushing, N. Y.

The Logic of the Weber Case

The Supreme Court decided in the Weber case [July 9] that discrimination is acceptable as a means to end discrimination. This logic reminds me of nothing so much as those haunting words from the war in Viet Nam: we had to destroy the town in order to save it.

Irwin I. Shapiro Cambridge, Mass.

We have gone way beyond integration. We are now telling whites to sit in the back of the bus.

Robert Joel Yaes St. John's, Nfld.