Aid to the Nicaraguan Contras and Covert U.S. Activities
Paul Conrad’s July 15 cartoon captioned, “National heroes,” depicting the images of North, Bernhard Goetz, Tammy and Jim Bakker carved into Mount Rushmore is truly outrageous. However clumsy and flawed North’s activities might have been, they were performed in order to free American hostages and to try to halt a Soviet encroachment on this continent. How these motives can be equated with the actions of a New York subway vigilante and a pair of venal religious charlatans is beyond my power to understand.
TONY THOMAS
Burbank
(The Times has received 789 letters against North’s actions, 265 in support of him and 310 commenting on additional issues at the hearings.)
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