Slobodan Milosevic

Re “Make TV Milosevic’s Worst Nightmare,” Opinion, Sept. 26: Eugene Secunda strongly urged freedom-loving countries to get rid of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic by bombarding Serbia with that wonderful medium called television. How contradictory can the intellects of this world be? We have the freest media in the world and in divulging the truth about the so-called leader of U.S. we couldn’t remove him from office. We fell on our collective faces and Hillary’s husband still rules the country as though he were Milosevic.

We, the U.S., mutilated Serbia, much to the gladness of many, and now millions of Serbs are paying the price for the failure to remove Milosevic. We see how difficult it is to remove a dictator--Libya, Cuba, Iran, etc.--but we plod along in our pious decision to let the Serbs eat dirt, and maybe they’ll freeze to death this winter, children as well as adults. I’m ashamed to call myself an American Serb, so I’ll do the same as other minorities and call myself a Serbian American.

MILAN MARTICH

Northridge

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“Holes in War’s Strategy” (editorial, Sept. 23) finally admits that failure to use ground troops against Serbia was a grave mistake. This is the sixth failure to really “win” and achieve a permanent peace since World War II. As yet, neither NATO nor the U.N. has stated the long-term objective and means thereto for the Yugoslavian people.

Now East Timor reveals that there is no long-term plan for its people. The basic causes of hatred between East and West Timorese have not been discussed. Are they ethnic and religious as in Cyprus? Are they economic, i.e. are the East Timorese richer? Is Timor economically viable split? If the problem is religious, i.e. Catholic versus Islamic, are not religious leaders the ones to find the solution?

PAUL C. LOVELACE

Los Angeles