Moscow Olympics
Sir, — A word of friendly advice to Peter Johnson, (July 17) would be to treat with healthy scepticism reports of purported conditions in Moscow for the Olympic Games, which are being disseminated by the world’s news agencies. There are no “huge shortages of goods and services in Russia” although, it is true, private enterprise has long since been banished from Soviet society. The stability and security of the booming Soviet economy (trade with the Soviet Union was worth $177 million to New Zealand last year) is in marked contrast to the decline of 2.4 per cent each in the months of
May and June of United States industrial production (Cable Briefs, “The Press,” July 18) indicating that the United States continues to slide into recession, dragging the rest of the capitalist world with it, including our own. I reject Peter Johnson’s imputation of dreaming, in giving support to socialism. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. July 19, 1980.
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