Broken glass on beaches

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33712, 9 December 1974, Page 18

Broken glass on beaches

Sir, —Is it really necessary to wear boots to swim at the beaches around Christchurch. The very inconsiderate seem to derive great pleasure not only from spoiling the beaches but also from seriously injuring swimmers with broken bottles. It seems absolutely absurd that anyone should have to suffer with bandages and crutches at the mercy of others, at this time of year. Couldn’t these inhumane, unfeeling drinkers confine their Bacchanalian habits to their own backyard? — Yours etc.,

INNOCENT VICTIM. December 5, 1974.

Russian concessions Sir, — The flight of fancy indulged in by Victor Zorza in his article on Friday, suggesting Dr Kissinger had

scared Mr Brezhnev into making concessions to President Ford at Vladivostok with the prospect of Senator Jackson’s election to the Presidency in 1976 is laughable. Senator Jackson holds no terrors for the Soviet Government. If one hard, cold fact emerges from the post-war history of the United States Presidency, it is that the sorry procession of incumbents from Truman to Nixon has had to learn the hard way the severely circumscribed limits to the exercise of United States power in its relations vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. Nothing about Senator Jackson inspires belief in his ability to succeed where all the others have failed. Apart from a minor nuisance value to the Soviet Government, Senator Jackson’s elevation to the Presidency poses its greatest threat to the United States itself.—Yours, etc., M.C.H. December 7, 1974.