Left, Right
Why is it necessary for presumably objective journalists to characterize Nicaragua as “leftist” when noting that Nicaragua opposed the invasion of Panama by rightist United States military aggressors (“World Reaction to Noriega’s Arrest,” Jan. 5)? Centrist Spain, left-centrist Mexico and the leftist Soviet Union also opposed the intervention, but their political persuasions were not worthy of comment. Your staff even failed to observe the “rightishness” of Britain, Japan and Thailand.
SPENCE CARLSEN
Granada Hills
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