Russia’s Plea for Western Aid

The article by Pozner is extremely timely, and points out the urgency of a grave situation. We fail to understand how the Administration regards such serious and dangerous consequences if Yeltsin is not helped with a full-fledged Marshall Plan type of aid instead of just vague promises, token support and nice dinners.

At the bottom of the same page a Toles’ cartoon depicts George Bush telling Boris Yeltsin that he would know what to do only if he were faced with hard-liners.

Then in a flash, we see with clarity that the Administration figures the best way out of our recession is to start building our military-industrial machine and once again instill in our people the fear of the return of the Evil Empire hard-liners. All this for jobs, jobs, jobs?

President Bush, we wish you long life but your heirs and the rest of the country’s generations to come will curse you if, for electoral gain, you do not act immediately to help the fledgling new democracies of the commonwealth with massive fast action. Next November may well be too late.

LOLI and GLENN HENDERSON, Laguna Niguel