Letters: Jul. 20, 1981

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Mitterrand Wins

To the Editors:

I felt reassured to see that TIME did not indulge in stupidly characterizing the results of the French elections [June 29] as an irremediable turn to the left.

Marc Chanliau

Belfort, France

I hope the French can make real progress with their new Socialist government. It's about time a country outside the Third World cuts the puppet strings of the U.S.

Gary Marquez

Fayetteville, N.C.

After reading your article on President Mitterrand, I see that we have no need to meddle in a situation that is not our own. The French will destroy France without our help, and I believe we owe them the opportunity to try.

John A. Heldt

Pendleton, Ore.

The French voters may soon realize that the rose is full of thorns.

Janette Thomas

Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Baseball Blues

I am a 29-year-old woman who loves baseball. I do not care what the strike issues are or who's right and who's wrong [June 29]. I just want to be able to watch baseball again.

Debra Levy

Philadelphia

I discovered there was life after 30. Next year I hope to realize there is life after 40. But is there life after baseball? Perhaps, but I have yet to find it.

Jo A. Hall

Dayton

Yes, there is life after baseball—and its name is soccer.

Robert Morgan

Chattanooga, Tenn.

I just bought $30 worth of fishing gear and plan to spend pleasant Saturdays on Potato Lake rather than listening to the nitpicky diamond dialogue between Tony Kubek and Joe Garagiola. The next strike will involve only me and a fish.

Dick Domann

Eau Claire, Wis.

Presidential Priorities Your article suggesting that President Reagan is incompetent in foreign policy matters [June 29] makes me want to bite nails. The fact that the President doesn't have pat answers to all foreign policy questions does not mean he is ignorant of the issues. Let the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State do their jobs, while the President concentrates on a much more pressing issue—the survival of our economic system.

Mark Galaway

Yukon, Okla.

How successfully or unsuccessfully our country works internally helps to determine our image abroad. Given a chance and some cooperation, our President just might solve a few economic woes at home. It's hard to be concerned with world bombings when high home-mortgage rates, unemployment and inflation are knocking at our doors every day.

Linda Crumb

Lone Grove, Okla.

Battle over the Butte

In your story on the fight to save Crested Butte [June 29], readers may have missed the point that the "backyard" we are trying to spare and the molybdenum under the ground both belong to all Americans. Multinationals like Amax, under the existing laws, would take that resource and in return would leave the people of the U.S. with one more ecological time bomb to cope with.

The thousands of people who visit the public lands around Crested Butte each year continue to benefit from our stewardship. In the future we hope to have more than just photographs to show our children what used to be here—unspeakable beauty.

W Mitchell, Mayor

Crested Butte, Colo.