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- LETTERS, Page 8WAITING FOR WASHINGTON
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- Your cover story "Do-Nothing Detente" (NATION, May 15) is
- on target. The U.S. is aimlessly drifting along until it can
- judge whether Gorbachev's offers are for real or are red
- herrings. Surely, a measure of disarmament is to the advantage
- of both America and the U.S.S.R. A political agreement will be
- honored if it is in the interests of all.
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- Ward Fearnside Wellesley, Mass.
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- Until there are some concrete changes in the Soviet Union,
- President Bush should continue his wait-and-see attitude. If
- new breezes are really stirring in the U.S.S.R., they can blow
- down the Berlin Wall and eliminate the barbed-wire fences that
- imprison Eastern Europe.
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- Paul W. Barbahen Forest Park, Ill.
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- Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze appears to be
- a man with a mind of steel, possessed at the same time of a
- credible concern for peace and humanity. His energy and
- enthusiasm make you believe that here is a man of action.
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- Diana Schwesinger Portage la Prairie, Man.
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- One does not have to endorse Gorbachev's ideology to
- respect his qualities as a leader: imagination, the ability to
- communicate and courage.
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- Janet E. Mast Kentwood, Mich.
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- I voted for George Bush, but what I got was Calvin Coolidge.
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- Norman Schuyler Cerritos, Calif.
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