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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.
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- Lealand D. Luck
- South Boston, Va
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- 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?
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- Owen Findsen
- Cincinnati
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- [Writer Lee Griggs, although possibly a teenybopper at heart,
- is a fully mature but hardly doddering 61.]