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- LETTERS, Page 5Wright's Ethics
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- Your article "Wright Fights Back" (NATION, April 24),
- reporting the allegations against House Speaker Jim Wright,
- pinpointed the more pervasive guilt shared by both political
- parties: a preoccupation with capitalizing on the ethical
- blunders of members of the other party. In recent years the
- American public has witnessed a Ping-Pong match of ethics
- between Democrats and Republicans. Most of us just want to know
- who is minding the store.
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- Debbie Burns Mercer, Pa.
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- I am disgusted with the so-called servants of the people in
- Washington who whine about salaries and perks that far exceed
- the median income in this country, and whose idea of public
- service is to acquire power and influence. If they find their
- incomes so inadequate for their needs that they must accept
- bribes or find loopholes to get money, I question why they work
- so hard to stay in office.
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- Margaret O'R. McPike Northbrook, Ill.
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- You report that Speaker Wright is most eager to defend his
- honor. What honor, may I ask?
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- William Loeb Memphis
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