‘World Scofflaw’
Your editorial about the U.S. veto of the U.N. Security Council’s resolution on the Reagan Administration’s deadly intervention in Nicaragua was completely appropriate. When our government fires on oil storage tanks in Corinto and Porto Sandina, plants mines in Nicaraguan harbors and finances, equips and trains rebel forces to overthrow the legitimate government of that impoverished little nation, it is guilty of violating international law, the U.N. Charter, the aims of the Organization of American States and the U.S. Neutrality Act.
Our beloved America now stands virtually alone and is seen by the rest of the world as an international outlaw while the congressional Republican majority and a few bamboozled Democrats (not from California) vote to send $100 million to aid the contra forces to wreak more havoc in that unfortunate region.
JOHN SAEMANN
Oakland
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