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F-4Commentary THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Sunday, April 10, 1988 Delhi or Springfield Township would be perfect site for jail Readers' views same problem in a few years if nothing is done to rectify the situation now. The state has authorized no funds for any new homes in its budget for Hamilton County. Yet it found money to fund the proposed sky lift to Mount Adams. Where are our priorities? I urge all parents, brothers, sisters and relatives and even friends to join us in the fight for more group homes for our retarded citizens. The Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) of Hamilton County is helping to join forces so we can be heard in Columbus.

Please join us and call ARC (821-2113) for more information. JERRY FORRESTER 7114 Salmar Court. for active and passive recreational activities an excellent alternative to the Broadway-Eggleston site. This prison may also solve the airplane problem. Or perhaps that area in Springfield Township where a shopping-mall proposal was turned down because it would cause severe traffic congestion.

I'm sure a prison would resolve that problem. Come on, Hamilton County Commissioners, the Hamilton County Township Association and the 325,000 citizens they represent let's hear it for fairness. Let's share the "wealth" and not limit it to the corporate limits of Cincinnati. EDWIN J. SCHNEUER 6164 Mariwood Court.

other elected public officials representing those communities outside the city, when it comes to sharing those things which are different? There are none, and I will tell you why. Their true constituents, those outside the city, will have their heads if they try to contaminate the genteel confines of Cupcake Land. There are numerous sites in the county where a minimum-security prison could be built. For instance, that site where the Delhi Township trustees have proposed to build a multipurpose, 67-acre community park in Delhi, which will be used Peace dialogues Since I was recently quoted and misunderst(K)d about my interest in Arab-Jewish dialogue, let me be clear. First, to Robert Webb Israel Find Its New Dawn?" March 13), who was very kind to me personally, but who was not sensitive to the plight of the Palestinian people, my people: The current agony, dispossession, shootings, beatings and summary imprisonments of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel in the West Bank and Gaza are no different than the recent oppression, dispossession and killings of the Jewish people at the hands of their oppressors in Europe.

There is great similarity between how the oppressors use their media, laws and power to justify their humanity. The oppressor and the oppressed are unfortunate victims of their fears, the circumstances of their conflict and their deep distrust of each other. The right solution for one people is no different than the other equal justice, human rights, security and peace, achievable through non-violent solutions, including dialogue and sharing. Second, to Louis Peller Dialogue," March 19), whose judgment I found hasty and presumptive (he assumed that since I did not dialogue with him, I was not serious about dialogue as a means of understanding): The facts are, Louis, that I have been actively involved in dialogue with various Jewish and Christian groups and individuals one at the late Victor Rice's home and several at our own home. With few exceptions, these have been very helpful.

The only reason I interrupted these dialogues was because I physically could not since I frequently traveled to and then moved to Europe for my work. Since my return to Cincinnati, I have restarted the dialogue effort. This, I believe, is not an easy path, but a much better one for understanding, equal justice and peace than bloodshed or oppression. HASAN A. HAMMAMI 10413 Londonridge Court.

rrvTt documented, this opportunity to cheat should not be ignored. Furthermore, the United States originally put nuclear arms in Europe for protection from the conventional forces of the Soviet Union. Under this treaty, the Soviet superiority in conventional forces remains but the nuclear umbrella will be gone. We need more members of Congress like Sen. Jesse Helms.

He is not afraid to stand up for the truth, no matter how many others may rush to put their faith in Communist promises. LOIS KINDLEY 5515 Madison Road. No cross, please Thank goodness, the cross at Krohn Conservatory has been replaced this year by a picture of spring. Does this mean the park board has realized this is not a city of Christians only? Christian symbols belong in Christian churches. I feel the same way about Easter Sunday morning's front page.

The Enquirer is a paper for all the people of Cincinnati. Not everyone finds the cross a symbol of joy. KATHRYN REDDER 9233 Patriot Drive West Chester. The Mann crisis Whew, am I relieved! The birds are still singing, the flowers are still blooming, the grass is still green and the sun is still shining. After reading about David Mann's concerns about the starting time of the Reds Opening Day game, I was worried none of these things would happen.

Now that this crisis has passed, maybe Mr. Mann can get on with city business and let Marge worry about "baseball tradition" in Cincinnati. STEPHEN SCOBY 4631 Summerside Road. Eat crow Isn't Tim Sullivan the same guy who said Tony Yates would be fired? When the Reds do finish above third place (Sullivan's prediction), would he please eat crow (again), and fly away? WM. BEYERSDOFER 5081 Overbrook Place.

TO THE EDITOR: Chavez Properties is worried whether a triangular tract downtown will become "a park or the site of a minimum-security prison" (March 31). This proposed $400 million downtown hotel-retail-office project would employ 15,000 people, generate $7 million in annual payroll taxes for the city, and create $4 million in new real-estate taxes annually for schools, the city and Hamilton County. Why is this project being threatened? Because the City of Cincinnati has stopped the Hamilton County Commissioners from placing the prison at other sites in the city. Dusty Rhodes, in his most recent diatribe Dark Future of Cooperation," March 14), thinks that the suburban cities, villages and townships have been totally ignored by the Smale commission study. After all, he stated, "the rest of us represent some 60 of the county's population and even more of the county's land total." If those figures are correct, then why, in all fairness, doesn't that part of the county provide at least 60 of the prisons, alcoholic drop-in centers, drug-rehabilitation centers, abortion clinics, subsidized housing for the disadvantaged, shelters for the homeless and derelict, and maybe even a toxic-waste incinerator? Where are all those cries for fairness from Messrs.

Murdock, Taft, DeCourcy, Rhodes and all the Social Security I read the confusing letter written by Rep. Willis Gradison (March 27) regarding Social Security and the "notch" babies those born between 1917 and 1921. I have before me a chart comparing average Social Security benefits for all those born between 1909 and 1923. The source is from the Social Security Administration's office of policy. It shows a difference in payments for those retiring at age 65, from $569 a month for those born in 1909, to $702 a month for those born in 1916.

Congress, evidently recognizing that the plan which created these ever-increasing benefits was inequitable and was leading the ANTO EfClOCATIONFOR THENEYJJNL program into bankruptcy, used a newer method of calculation which reduced benefits beginning for those born in 1917 through 1921. The average benefits of $702 monthly was reduced to $63-1 for 1917, and then gradually to its lowest point of $565 for 1920, creating a monthly difference of $137 or $1,644 annually between those born in 1916 and those born in 1920. This, despite the fact that those born between 3917 and 1921 paid higher premiums than those born between 1910 and 1916. This is obviously unfair. Representative Gradison has stated that it would cost $80 billion to rectify this inequity over a 10-year period.

I say, why not adjust this unfair situation by eliminating of be a be Help the retarded I am writing to commend you and Camilla Warrick on her fine article "Mother Faces Enduring Fight for Retarded" (March 27). I sympathize with Mrs. Evelyn Was-son, knowing that I will have the I I Ll Smokers, unite! Smokers who missed the article in The Enquirer on the Great American Smokers Club Revenge; Private Club in Texas Starting Daily Flights for Tobacco Puffers Only," April 3) should get a copy now. The club has several thousand members so far. They are banning together to have smokers-only flights from major airports.

Remember the TWA flight from Boston to Los Angeles in which smokers revolted when told they could not smoke? And Northwest Airline's new no-smoking policy on any flight? Now is the time to boycott any airline, that does not allow a smoking section. Non-smokers may have won the battle, but together we smokers can still win the war. J.TAMEL 1200 Highway Ave. Covington, Ky. INF-treaty trap According to a report in The Enquirer (March 31), the intermediate nuclear forces treaty "requires the actual destruction of missiles that carry nuclear warheads." It is possible to be a little more precise.

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