Baseball Strike

President Clinton spent four hours unsuccessfully negotiating a baseball settlement (Feb. 8)? This Administration seemed to have more important priorities when Hillary was President.

THERON COLLIER

La Habra

The American public should be most grateful to Clinton for devoting his full energies to the resolution of the baseball strike. It keeps him out of mischief.

ROBERT GRAHAM

Laguna Hills

Finally we have a President who has dealt with all of our pesky little international problems and can now devote his time to our much-neglected domestic issues. And why shouldn’t baseball get top priority? After all, look at what happened to the homeless situation, or children carrying guns. You let these things go for years and years and before you know it you’ve got a real problem. This whole baseball thing has gone on for, what, a few months now? An outrage! I say nip it in the bud. Maybe after the next poll is taken, and the reelection campaign really gets under way, Clinton will have some time left over for that other “stuff”?

ROSEMARY WATSON

Los Angeles

How can we expect Congress to settle the baseball strike? The recent passage of the balanced-budget amendment in the House is akin to the implementation of the baseball owners’ salary cap proposal. Both scream out, “Help me to stop spending foolishly!”

Perhaps we should enroll the baseball owners and Congress in a basic accounting course or a 12-step recovery program to stop compulsive and habitual excessive spending.

DANIEL ALDAMA

Whittier