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Letters: Aug. 29, 1983

Central America

To the Editors:

After reading your comprehensive story on our big stick approach to Central America [Aug. 8], I wondered what would happen if, the next time a poor, ill-fed and uneducated people revolted against a dictatorship, the U.S. were to support the rebels. The Russians would then have no one to aid. Would this be so terrible?

Sherman Siegel King of Prussia, Pa.

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