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Dear Editor:
Attached i a letter than my 13 ye r
old daughter wrote to Rep. Sil] nder
following a recent trip to in ton
D.C. with her 8th gr de cl
After typing it for h r, I f It it mi t
be of interest to your r der . the th
Di riet. I d for penni . n to nd
it to you nd you h v y p rmi 'on
as her parent, to print it.
Vivian . Grady
Holland, MI 49423
Repre ntative Siljander:
Sund y, April 1, 1984, our 8th grade
went on a trip to Washington D.C .. -
On April 3rd, part of our tour wa to
meet you and Senators Levin and Riegle.
I don't kno if you remember, but our
cia's topic I s uclear Arms. You
brought up Pr 'dent Reagan's proposal
to de troy missile from satellite in
ace.
Wjen' you finished talking to us, I
came up to YOQ and a ed why we need­
ed to build so many nuclear missiles if
e were going to shoot theirs down
nyway.
De r Editor:
Tue ay night's vote in the Senate
demanding a op to the CIA' criminal
I mining of icaraguan port was a turning
poin: in American hi ory we Can all be
proud of. Exactly 42 Republican and
42 Democrat joined in ying:
(1) Illinoi Senator Chade Percy,
the Republican ho chair the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, put it,
the Pre ident has been asking for
bipartisan foreign policy and now he's
got it, and .....
(2) That policy is based on the
accumulated wisdom obtained at ter­
rible co in Vietnam and numerous
aller adventure since, culminating in
the Lebanon debacle. e have learned
that other foreign policy rategies than
military action can be a lot less co Iy
and a lot more effective than dashing all
over the globe seeing ho many crises
e can create or jump into with guns
blazing in all direction.
Senator Percy, the liberal Republican,
and the 41 other Republicans he led in
voting for that Resolution· deserve
special credit for being willing at long
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Editor: able, and totally repulsive. However, I
I am writing to exnre my concern believe that where there is no evidence
regarding an articl found in the April of racial prejudice, let there be no call to
18-24 1984 edition of The Citizen. The arms.
article is entitled '" ova Scotia Blac In the eleventh paragraph of the article
arch for roots". After a brief history the following statement is made: "It
of the Black race in ova Scotia, the (racism)' also evident in the presence
article discu es, at length, the various of only 136 Blacks among the 9,100
type of racial prejudice practiced in provincial government employees, . • .".
ova Scotia. While I deplore prejudice In the fifth paragraph it . revealed that
of any kind, racial prejudice is especially only one third of one per cent of ova
un tling. The wron perpetrated Scotia's population i Black. Using that
against Blac by whites in va Scotia per centage as a guide, it is revealed that
and elsewhere are indefensible, unpardon- proportionally, only 30.3 provincial
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d thi que tion I felt
v ry ot down by your fin er pointed
in my face and your tone of voice. You
told me that if I w nted to have a nuclear
freez which you said wa an "asinin
ide" a d allow th communist Russians
to shoot over 30 000 mi siles and we do
nothing back, that wa fine.
After you lowered your voice, I
started to say that if the Soviet Union
would' be foolish enough to hoot over
30 000 missiles that the radiation would
ay in the atmosphere and kill the
soviets without us even hooting one
missile back and that this would also
happien if we were to shoot at the
Soviet Union. I didn't get the chance,
though.
You may think that this letter sounds
as· though I'm angry but actually,. I'm
disappointed that you didn't listen or
hear what I had to say. Also, I'm dis­
appointed that you think the Freeze is
an "asinine idea". I don't.
Sincerely,
lisa Grady
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last to stand up to the Great White
aeho in the White House and shout
"Enough P'. So does Barry Goldwater,
the arch-conservative Republican, whose
expletive-laced letter to CIA boss Casey
made the Resolution he didn't vote for
sound tame by comparison. With at
• least 43 Republicans screaming at him,
maybe Reagan will have to li en. If not,
all the more reason to boot him out in
ovember.
The Hou of Representatives is
getting ready to vote a similar Resolution
as I write thi lett . I wonder what
Rep. ark SUjande of our Fourth
District, the Macho�f-all-macho to date,
will do? Will this preacher of the gospel
that you can't solve cial problems
by throwing money at them finally bring
himself to admit that you can't solve
international problems by throwing the
whole damn treasury and an endIe
stream of tom bodie of Gl's at them?
Or does he still want to blow everybody
we disagree Y!ith out of the water (liter­
ally in this case), law or no law, right-to­
life or no right-to-life?
Senator Percy has led the vast majority
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of Senate Republican in the spirit of
lincoln and Eisenhower. It' to be
hoped that hi opponent in the August
7th primary, Timothy Horan, will cam­
paign in that spirit, because Mark Sil­
jander seems to prefer marching under
the tattered colors of McKinley, ixon
and Reagan.
Yours for Peace,
LeRoy Wolins, Vice-Commander
Kalamazoo Area Veterans for Peace
Ed: Mr. Wolin! also submitted the fol­
lowing tongue-tn-cheeck commentary.
Dear Editor:
Me and some of da boys recently paid
a little visit to da Grenada ational
Bank to get da management more in line
wit my high principle of democracy.
Dis proved to be such a great succe dat
we decided to do da same highly princi­
pled job on da icaragua ational Bank.
. Dey don't run dat bank right at all.
Cuz dey got a lot more guards at dat
icaragua National Bank, I've been havin'
some of da boys case da joint, visit dere
and see if any of da guards might be
government employees would be Black.
This is an obvious case of discrimination,
though perhap not against Blacks.
Let us hop that in the future inflam­
matory essays such as the one I have
discussed are at the very least accurate.
I fully support the cau of Blacks to be
treated as equal, however I draw the line
at treating any race, creed, sex, or
national origin as more equal than any
other.
Thank you.
Mark R. Coulston
iles, Michigan
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willin' to help fix it up to run da way it
should. But we ain't h d much luc wit
dat. In fact, so many cu omers keep
go in' in and out of dat upid bank,
makin' deposits and vitdrawals dat it'
downright disgustin'. So I'm havin' da
boys put a few little homemade bombs
around dere entrances to stop all dat
traffic and rneke 'em see da light.
So what da you think doze icaragus
Bank guys got da never to do? T e u to
court!!! De're actin' like a bunch a
brazen commies]! Well, let me tell you
plain and straight. e and da boys ain't
gonna take any non n from any
rotten court for da next two years at
least, so well have da time to get thing
back da way dey wuz under our old
buddy Somoza (God re his soul).
So dis is to let you know dat any
move you dam liberal journalists or any
meddlin' people from dat Congre of
yours make to me it da boy ill be
held ainst you. So butt out!! e an
da boy got or do do in d name of
God and freedom!!.
Your Patriotic symbol,
AJ Anti-Communi Capone
(a .a. Ronni the Ray-gun)
p .S. You pri t di 1 tter or you know
what you get.
Real-life P .S. AI pone in fact po e of
him If a p trioti nti-Comrnunist .
Ask 5 for h el p
I am a ing every church in Benton
Harbor to pray for my son Adam iller
that he finds him elf before it i too late.
I don't know where he i now, but
God knows. If any of you want to get
in to ch ith me, you can call me any
time of day or night at 92�752.
Mother, Sewilla Wil n
806 Pipestone
P .S. God is able.