Nixon in Egypt

Sir / The Egyptian people have recognized President Nixon for what he is: the greatest peacemaker in the history of the world [June24J.

JAMES STORRS

Deer Park, Texas

Sir / No wonder the Egyptians turned out en masse for Nixon: Sadat told them Santa Claus was coming.

FRED L. O'KEEFE

Eagle River, Wis.

Sir / In view of the very warm Egyptian reception afforded Nixon, dare we hope he will seek asylum?

ED WACHSMAN

Columbus

Black Middle Class

Sir / TIME has done a cover story on blacks [June 17] that gives an underclass black reader the enlightening facts about our brothers and sisters who are together, educated and successful. Your reporters should be congratulated.

KEITH HAMMETT

Dayton, Ohio

Sir / It is regrettable that a magazine with your circulation and assumed journalistic integrity would ignore the realities of our racist society. Until this nation accepts its black population as equal human beings, all of us blacks belong to the same class, regardless of our socioeconomic and educational or psychological frames of reference. The power structure of the U.S. has but one classification for all of us--black.

O.C. BOBBY DANIELS

Amherst, Mass.

Sir / I am sure that many middle-class whites who are not "making it in America" read your cover story with great interest and enjoyment. Unfortunately, many of these whites have been bumped out of a livelihood by blacks who advanced by means of quota and token systems rather than by merit. While striving for equality through "legal discrimination," haven't we initiated a greater injustice?

TEDD ZERBE

Bernville, Pa.

Sir / It is ironical and amazing how white these people look when they are doing the same things that most people think only white people do.

MARILYN L. ROGERS

Woodhaven, N.Y.

Kissinger's Pique

Sir / In his infantile and unseemly display of pique, Henry Kissinger would be well advised to remember [June 24] that U.S. foreign policy was carried out for almost 200 years before he made the scene and will be carried out for 200 years after he disappears from view.

JOAN BARTLETT

Ormond Beach, Fla.

Sir / Let us not forget that we need Kissinger more than he needs us. He is the only widely respected, farsighted and truly able diplomat who can bring about some understanding and cooperation in these times of worldwide political turmoil. Can we pride ourselves on having so many internationally successful statesmen that we can do without him?

(MRS.) ILONA ROHONYI

South Orange, N.J.

Kleindienst Duped

Sir / As I read of Richard Kleindienst's loss of composure at his sentencing [June 17], I realized that all these men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder and even possibly Colson, were not the over-zealous corrupters of the office of the presidency. Rather they were the idealistic dupes of a corrupt, embittered President intent upon the political and financial destruction of all his imagined enemies.

BERNICE SIROTA

Miami Beach

Sir / The leniency shown to former Attorney General Kleindienst, whose perjury is a matter of public record, illustrates once again that there are two systems of justice in this country--one for the influential and another for everyone else.

ANDREW J. BILLUPS

Urbanna, Va.

It Takes Moral Leadership

Sir / I am not "distraught" [June 17] but deeply concerned about the collapse of moral leadership, not only in the Executive Branch but in all segments of our society If Watergate will bring us all to the "waters of repentance," our laundered attitudes will be the beginning of a better people, worthy of the greatness of this nation.

This takes leadership, not only from the governmental community, but from other thought molders, including the communications media. The sin has been exposed and acknowledged, and that is the first step toward restoration of national integrity. How about equal time given to the creative energies implicit in justice and mercy? If the current spirit of anarchy goes too far, we will all be crying for both.

(THE REV.) T. EUGENE COFFIN East Whittier Friends Church

Whittier, Calif.

Sir / This beleaguered nation certainly needs new moral and ethical leadership. Senator Harold Hughes can provide it. It is unfortunate that he is leaving politics, for while lay religious work is honorable and rewarding, Senator Hughes may serve God in a greater capacity by staying on in the Government.

DAVID C. RAKER

Liberty, Pa.

Sir / Hugh Sidey is too lenient with the White House men of God. What do these foolish men, who gag at gnats but swallow camels, consider to be wrongdoing if not what was going on under their very noses? Let them be reminded that he sins too who fails to speak out against wrongdoing.

GEORGE P. HEIKES

Ellsworth, Minn.

Subject to Audit

Sir / It seems to me that when we elect a President, he is our employee and not we his stooges and dupes. Therefore he should be subject to "audit" for financial, ethical and legal performance. Like the manager of any business, he should be obliged to open his books for the scrutiny of the taxpayers or their representatives, in the present situation the House Judiciary Committee [June 17].

If at the present time there is no clear legal means of getting needed information from the President for the good of the country or its citizens, then before another President is chosen an amendment should be added to the Constitution providing for a proper procedure.

(MRS.) GLADYS SHERMAN

Binghamton, N.Y.

Transcending the Therapy

Sir / Despite the implication in your story on sex surrogates [June 17], the men whom I treat need to talk about much more than just sexual likes and dislikes.

Beneath a veneer of social, financial and even marital success, most of these men are lonely. They feel hopeless about ever making contact with anyone. Much of the therapy is devoted to analyzing the relationship between myself and my patients as they learn to express their feelings of isolation, resentment and fear. In this process, they become able to respond sexually, many for the first time in their lives. The discoveries they make about the emotional states essential to sexual arousal transcend the therapeutic situation.

SUSAN GREENE Sex Therapist Berkeley Sex Therapy Group

Berkeley, Calif.

Hepatitis Carriers

Sir / I resent your statement that "dentists may be hepatitis carriers" [June 17]. The fact that one dentist had contracted the disease and was still a carrier after his recovery does not make every dentist a potential carrier.

(MRS.) JACKIE BEESLEY

Arvada, Colo.

Sir / Did it ever occur to you that diseases may be carried by people of any profession, even editors?

EUGENE G. LERNER, D.D.S.

West Seneca, N.Y.

The Watergate Cast

Sir / You don't have to resurrect Humphrey Bogart to play President Nixon in a Watergate film [June 17]. I spotted the perfect actor months ago, in a TV series.

Like Nixon, this actor never appears without coat and tie. He has the President's vehement and moralistic speaking style, his facial structure is similar and he holds his shoulders in the same manner as the President, as if framed by two-by-fours.

He is Jack Webb, Dragnet's Sergeant Joe Friday.

FRANK R. BLACKFORD

Virginia Beach, Va.

Sir / Finding little humor in my situation, I appreciate yours.

But I feel that Bob Hope or Ronald Reagan would be miscast. I strongly urge you to try for Elmer Fudd or Mr. Magoo--in the national interest of course.

GUNNAR A. SPRINGIS, # 102679 Iowa State Penitentiary

Fort Madison, Iowa

Sir / It's obvious. Charlton Heston's our man to play the role of Richard Nixon. After all, look at his experience: Moses, El Cid, Ben-Hur, John the Baptist, et al.

VICKI MOLL

Salt Lake City

Sir / In your casting of "Watergate," you have omitted the name of the person most qualified to play the parts of Sirica, Baker, Ervin, Cox, Rodino and Jaworski--Emmett Kelly.

LEE A. YOUNG

Fort Myers, Fla.

Sir / We suggest for the role of the Watergate burglars the Marx Brothers.

STEPHEN MCCARTHY

WILLIAM MITCHELL

Mill Valley, Calif.

Sir / And Anthony Ulasewicz plays himself, and steals the show!

BUELL R. SNYDER

Beachwood, N.J.

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