‘From Generosity to Cynicism’
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Ophuls struck a timely note. Earlier we read that our government had actually interfered with humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the destructive hurricane.
Have we become so cynical, so cruel that we would let the victims of a natural disaster suffer because we don’t like the politics of their leaders?
JOHN A. KING
Ojai
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