Which Reagan in the Running?

To the Editors:

Now that Ronald Reagan, an open antiCommunist, is in the presidential race [Nov. 24], it will be interesting to see how soon the Communists and their "useful fools" will proclaim him to be a fascist.

Radin Zet

Cleveland

Ronald Reagan is the prototype American politician of the '70s: mindless, witless, positionless and worthless.

Martin Derrow, M.D.

Cincinnati

It's about time you began to realize that neither Barry Goldwater nor Ron ald Reagan is mounting "a hopeless crusade against the 20th century."

They are urging a return to the strong sense of individual responsibility that made this country great.

(Mrs.) Elizabeth W. Avery

Franklin, N. Y.

Reagan proposes abolishing the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid and other essential services. The assumption that these services can be effectively provided by state and local governments is simplistic. The matter-of-fact treatment of the decrease of programs and loss of jobs is criminal.

Obiajulu S. Udeh

Montclair, N.J.

Perhaps Ronald Reagan will be able to save us from the loud minority demands of radical feminists for free abortion for all.

Rosemary Hamilton

Marquette, Mich.

President Ford does not have to worry about losing his job to Ronald Reagan if the former Governor of Califor nia maintains his stand that equal rights for women is encouraging attitudes toward sex and sex differences akin to those of dogs.

Rosemary Van Susteren

Milwaukee

Do you really think I'll vote for a man who spends 9% hours in bed each day, puts his pajamas on at 6 p.m., lets his wife dictate how his employees will dress and whom to fire and sits around eating jelly beans all evening?

Kay Weldon

Kirkland, Wash.

Assassination in Dallas

You copped out, TIME [Nov. 24]. You're probably as much involved in the Kennedy assassination cover-up as the CIA, FBI and Dallas police department.

Bob Dewhirst

Durham, N.C.

Why waste your time trying to show intelligently that Oswald was J.F.K.'s lone assassin and that the Warren Report was essentially correct? People who want to believe in conspiracy theories will continue to do so because they want to believe the worst about the U.S., its institutions and its leaders.

Jerry Axelrod

Philadelphia

Although I appreciate your unequivocal "No" answer to the question of my alleged presence in Dallas at the time of J.F.K.'s murder, I would like to point out that my noninvolvement rests not only on "drastic differences" between the specimen photographs, but more conclusively upon the sworn testimony of several witnesses who confirm that I was in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 1963. It is a physical law that an object can occupy only one space at one time.

Correction: I am not a Watergate "burglar," but a conspirator.

Howard Hunt,

Fed. Prison Camp

Eglin A.F.B., Fla.

It may be improbable that Oswald was able to fire three shots within five or six seconds with such deadly accuracy. What is far more inconceivable, however, is that a coconspirator, shooting from a completely different vantage point, was able to synchronize his timing with equal accuracy.

Charles Carr III

Spring Lake, N.J.

On Nov. 22, 1963, I was six years old and in first grade. Now I am 18 years old and a college freshman, and this poor man's murderer is still not known for sure. For God's sake, reopen this case and resolve what really happened once and for all.

Mickey Minsberg

Madison, Wis.

To think that you still believe the Warren Report. I do look forward to a future issue featuring the tooth-fairy story.

Laura Kittrell

Dallas

Our society is sick with conspiracy fetishes. To one who feels he is drowning hi gallons of screwball theories coming from every direction, your few drops of common sense on this controversial subject were welcome.

Roger McKeown

Ames, Iowa

I find the theories of those who are skeptical of the Warren Commission's findings no more imaginative than those who support it.

Timothy D. Lassiter

Reston, Va.

Enough! It never occurred to me how important the Kennedy assassination has been to our economy. The number of people deriving income from spectacular, grisly films, books and lectures must be impressive. Not to mention the valuable tune our men of science spend filling skulls with gelatine and shooting bullets into melons.

Tom Colder Jr.

Fairfield, Conn.

John F. Kennedy has been dead now for twelve years. Why not let him rest in peace?

Janice Torbet

Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Crime Accounting

Do the FBI crime statistics [Dec. 1] include the crimes committed by the FBI?

Edward D. Scannell

San Diego

Douglas Goes

With the retirement of Justice Douglas [Nov. 24] there hovers a dark threatening cloud over our basic constitutional rights.

Kristen Sanders

Detroit

The greatest is gone.

Dean A. Morehous Jr.

Los Angeles

The Right to Choose

I am deeply saddened and discouraged to read that once again women --and men--are afraid of equal rights [Nov. 17]. All that I ask is that people be allowed to choose their role in life --whether it be housewife, mother, doctor or mechanic.

It is not my desire, nor that of the equal rights amendment, to penalize women for choosing to work at home.

Katherine M. Lord

Tehran

Franco's Epitaph

However gentle historians try to be with Francisco Franco [Dec. 1], in the end they will have to agree his 36-year rule was cruel, ruthless, rigidly authoritarian--right wing, not quite fascist.

Philip J. Schacca

West Hempstead, N. Y.

Franco's song is ended but the malady lingers on.

Vito Salerno

Madison, Wis.

Persons off the Year

As a housewife, age 45. mother of six and a Democrat, I nominate Betty Ford for TIME Person of the Year.

(Mrs.) Joan G. Toolen

Buffalo

Indira Gandhi. In 1975, a year dedicated to women, she has conclusively shown that even when it comes to ruthlessness, women are determined to keep pace with the toughest and most ruthless of men.

Nibir Datta

Liverpool, N. Y.

In his rags, his homelessness, his poverty, he--Arab, African, Asian or Caucasian--may yet prove to be the man, not alone of the year, but of the century. He is the refugee.

(Mrs.) Erma E. Baer

Chicago

Untroubled

We would like to clear up an error made in the printing of a photograph and caption in the Behavior section [Nov. 24]. The couple depicted are in no sense "troubled parents." Their family is indeed a happy one, with the photograph of them and their children attesting to the fruits of visits in earlier years by the couple only.

There is no association between this family and the treatment of physical problems referred to in the article. We sincerely regret this occurrence and wish to set the record straight.

Dr. Norman Paul

Dr. Robert Feldman

Boston

TIME regrets any misunderstanding involving Suzanne and Jack Agnew of Boston.

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