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- LETTERS, Page 6East St. Louis Blues
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- The difficulties suffered by the declining city of East St.
- Louis, Ill., ought to awaken Americans to just how fragile
- their little piece of turf is (AMERICAN SCENE, June 12). What
- happened in East St. Louis should be fair warning to cities
- everywhere that they must act now or they will have to react
- later.
-
- Lealand D. Luck South Boston, Va
-
- East St. Louis' first order of business should be to hire
- more police and get crime under control. The tax base will not
- return until the city shows that it can maintain order in the
- streets and provide basic government services.
-
- John A. King Damascus, Md.
-
- You note that the average age of the police force is a
- "doddering 46.5 years." How many doddering employees of that
- age are there at TIME? Or are you all inexperienced,
- entry-level teenyboppers like the person who wrote that
- sentence?
-
- Owen Findsen Cincinnati
-
- [Writer Lee Griggs, although possibly a teenybopper at
- heart, is a fully mature but hardly doddering 61.]
-