Letters: Oct. 5, 1983

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strange drawing of some person or other also on the cover, which is very puzzling to me. I consider this figure you have attached to my name monstrous in appearance, bearing no resemblance to my likeness. Therefore, this is to notify you that I am suing you for $1,000,000 for defamation of caricature.

DAVID MERRICK New York City

1967 TIME owes it to its readers to name the anonymous Governor whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser." It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it.

RONALD REAGAN

Governor

Sacramento, Calif.

TIME'S source is not at all "nameless," but we are bound to honor his request that he not be identified.—ED.

1968 In TIME'S People section my photo was published with "a mysterious Chilean admirer" who, says the article, was accompanying me from Chile to Montevideo and was living with me in the same hotel. Unfortunately, I myself can classify this article as inaccurate.

First, this woman is not a Chilean. She is Uruguayan, and she has no reason to live with me in the same hotel because she has a home in Montevideo. Secondly: in the photo she appears alone with me, but at our side, at the same time, were many of my Uruguayan friends and friends from the Russian embassy who, together with her, accompanied me to the airport where I disappeared alone to Bogota. Third: in the photo she is at a distance from me of no less than 50 centimeters. Thus through TIME, I wish to advise all of the women of the world, including North Americans, to please stay a distance of no less than one kilometer away from this wicked Evtushenko, because immediately some reporters could interpret this as "amor-r-r," with three Rs. Be careful of Russian poets!

EVGENY EVTUSHENKO Bogota, Colombia

1969 Re your comment in the Buckley-Vidal story: George Sanders didn't divorce me, I divorced him.

ZSA ZSA GABOR Washington, D.C.

1970 Since you mentioned nudity in your review of the movie John and Mary, I thought you might be interested in the following example of current studio thinking.

Before filming began, I informed the producers that I would not consent to any nude scenes, and was reassured that there would be none. As soon as my work was completed, a double was hired without my consent, and several nude scenes were inserted. I argued and pleaded with the producers for a period of five months, but since I had no legal recourse, I lost the argument.

MIA FARROW Manhattan

1971 I would have preferred personally to ignore J. Edgar Hoover's ungentlemanly attacks on my husband, but my husband is dead and cannot reply for himself. Mr. Hoover, in alleging that he called my husband a liar during their meeting in 1964, has exposed himself. There were witnesses present, three distinguished clergymen, who explicitly denied that Mr. Hoover made such a statement or any other attack on my husband's veracity to his face.

It is unfortunate for our country that a person of such moral and mental capacity holds a position of such importance. It is equally unfortunate for race relations in these troubled times that a person revealed in this interview to be so arrogantly prejudiced against Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and blacks is a high Government official.

MRS. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Atlanta