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- LETTERS, Page 8THE NEW U.S.S.R.
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- I want to pay homage to Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin
- for their efforts to democratize and modernize the Soviet Union
- (SPECIAL ISSUE, April 10). The country will soon reach a point from
- which it will be impossible to turn back.
-
- Jose Paulo Mariano Pego
- Coimbra, Portugal
-
- The Soviets are doing a good job of letting Westerners in to
- see their progress. But true change will be evident when they
- readily let their people out to see the West.
-
- Daniel W. Wright
- Etobicoke, Ont.
-
- Your report detailed many changes attributable to glasnost.
- But without a system of law that effectively protects human rights,
- all you describe can be swept away at the wave of a dictator's
- hand.
-
- Bert Raphael, Chairman
- Canadian Lawyers and Jurists for Soviet Jewry
- Toronto
-
- I read with astonishment about demokratizatsiya in the U.S.S.R.
- Imagine -- real elections behind the Iron Curtain!
-
- Gary F. Millspaugh
- Allentown, Pa.
-
- I was surprised to find that in one way the Soviet voting
- system is superior to ours. If Soviet voters can deny a candidate
- office by crossing out his name, they have achieved a longtime wish
- of a number of us Americans.
-
- William DeBussey
- San Diego
-
- It was wonderful to see the article on the U.S.S.R.'s first
- Alcoholics Anonymous group. Now Soviet problem drinkers have a
- chance to recover through this excellent program. However, please
- never refer to a "religious tone" in A.A. meetings. Spiritual, yes,
- but not necessarily religious. Anyone can identify with a higher
- power, whatever it might be, without religious overtones.
- Otherwise, an alcoholic atheist wouldn't have a chance -- here or
- in the Soviet Union.
-
- William J. Laurent
- Kalamazoo, Mich.