Letters: Oct. 5, 1983

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Syracuse

1979 It must have been a stunt double who wrote that item about me and The Legend of Walks Far Woman. I have done most of my own stunt work, much more than the insurance company would have liked, suffering numerous injuries in the process.

By the way, the Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws"—this is a demeaning term used only by whites.

RAQUEL WELCH Los Angeles

1980 Just to keep the record straight: I do not buy $5,000 dresses; I do not have an extensive jewelry collection, or paintings, or antiques; and I do not have a hairdresser and interior decorator in tow. I get my hair done once a week, and I'm at a loss as to what an interior decorator would do. Perhaps rearrange the furniture in all the Holiday Inns I've been staying in.

NANCY REAGAN Pacific Palisades, Calif.

1981 Your article calling for the return of the draft is an enormous step backward in the striving for a humane world. No renewal. American or other, should be based on blood. A man who specializes in killing other men—regardless of ideology—is an assassin. Forcing youths to do this is a crime.

JORGE LUIS BORGES Buenos Aires

1982 Since your article on Jerusalem appeared, we have had innumerable phone calls from your readers trying out our home telephone number, which is now listed in TIME, as well as the Jerusalem directory. The callers telephone from as far away as Detroit and Perth, Australia, to ask if I am really mayor.

TEDDY KOLLEK, MAYOR Jerusalem