Rearmament

Prof. Amos Perlmutter (“Climate in West Germany May Become Too Fevered for Its Eastern Neighbors,” Op-Ed Page, July 10) bemoans the fact that after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit “no West German politician can afford to advocate a policy of rearmament . . . “ any more.

Now isn’t it a shame that Germans, and Europeans in general, have begun to think more about disarmament than about rearmament? Isn’t there anything to be done about that?

JOSEPH NYOMARKAY

Redondo Beach