Peace
Sir,—The editorial on January 2, "Surviving a year of peace,” identified several horrid wars without discussing the needs and greeds that caused them. It criticised South Africa’s racism, but not British and American support for Pretoria or South Africa’s providing strategic minerals to Britain, France, West Germany, America and Japan. Communist military interventions were mentioned, but not America’s essential support for oppressive governments and brutal armies in Chile, Turkey, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia etc., nor her conquest of Grenada, bombing of Libya, /rearming of Japan or her upward pressure on the arms race. The most astonishing item, however, was the extremely convoluted “Nicaragua’s convoluted relations with ... Central America.” Nicaragua unseated a monstrous dictator, established a caring socialist government, legitimised that in a massively-won democratic election — and America funds the contras openly and secretly. What is convoluted in that? — Yours, etc., SUSAN TAYLOR. January 2, 1987. A
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