PUBLIC FORUM HAHN'S LAX PLAN.``More hassles at LAX?'' (May 30) shows why politics and airport planning don't mix. Mayor Hahn wants to limit LAX expansion while passenger numbers are projected to go sky high. His plans to dig a mile-long baggage tunnel is an engineering nightmare that will cause departure delays. Jack Kyser is right. Long Beach, Burbank, Orange County and Ontario will be inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. with LAX refugees. If LAX does not modernize to accommodate future passenger projections, then it will cease to be the region's economic engine and we will all suffer the consequences. - Sean McCarthy West Hills What they deserve Re Michael Guetzow's ``Hahn's doomed'' (Public Forum, May 29): I agree with Guetzow's assessment of Mayor Hahn's actions, but I disagree about the mayor being doomed. I think Guetzow is seriously underestimating the stupidity of the electorate. As any politician could explain, the voters have serious attention-deficit disorder and quickly forget what's been done. They keep voting the same losers into office - over and over and over. To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, ``in a democratic process the electorate always get exactly what they deserve.'' Every two years they have the opportunity to boot 'em out of office but rarely take the risk of handing the offices to new people who probably wouldn't do any better anyway. - Arthur Carden California City We've earned it I am not at all happy that the Department of Water and Power will be wholly owned by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . All the people of Los Angeles own the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection . One-third of the people living in what is today Los Angeles are residents of the Valley and therefore are one-third owners of the DWP. It follows that should the Valley secede from Los Angeles, the new Valley city should own one-third of the DWP, and one-third of the profits generated by this agency should belong to the new Valley city. In conjunction with the above, the new Valley city should also be represented in the Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. and Management of the DWP by one- third. The same could be said about the Airport Authority. The leaders of the secession movement need to add this to their list. We have truly earned it. - Bernard Soto Northridge A fresh start Since the Valley is set to break away from Old L.A., new blood must be chosen to run the new city. Not the same old tired hacks who have been termed out, disgraced by arrest, or otherwise disposed of. A fresh start means just that. Otherwise it's just another refrain of meet the new boss, same as the old boss; apologies to Pete Townsend Pete Townsend may refer to:
- Daniel F. Taylor Tujunga Complete investigation I support the call of members of the U.S. Senate for a complete investigation of 9-11. We owe it to the victims to learn more about this attack and how a second one could be prevented in the future. Anything less than a commission investigation of this horrible tragedy is simply un-American. - Mary Altmann Agoura I feel their pain As an octogenarian oc·to·ge·nar·i·an adj. Being between 80 and 90 years of age. n. A person between 80 and 90 years of age. , the things that bring me pleasure have become fewer and fewer. Sorrow is another matter. I was saddened to read that FBI agent Kenneth Williams could bring nothing before Congress that would injure the president or his staff. Daschle, Gebhardt, McAuliffe and Hillary were so heavily invested in an opposite conclusion that one's heart must ache at their disappointment. Here are people only seeking the truth, the facts - the best interests of this great country transcend all else. And now there are those who ascribe baser motives. I can only say shame, shame. - Bill Clarke William Hillary (Bill) Clarke (born 5 July 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a Chartered Accountant and businessman by career. Llano lla·no n. pl. lla·nos A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. [Spanish, plain, from Latin pl Why Palestinians fled Randal Bassin (Public Forum, May 24) made a grievous error when he stated ``Israel never made Palestinians leave their homeland. ...'' The fact is that some 700,000 Palestinians left Israel because of massacres, like at Deir Yassin Deir Yassin, was an Arab village, which had declared its neutrality during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, which was attacked and emptied of its inhabitants by Israeli forces, after the Deir Yassin massacre, in which between 107 and 120 villagers, mostly women children and the old, were , where Israelis killed men, women and children five weeks before the start of the Israeli war of Independence of May 15, 1948. This along with the occupation of Acre, Tiberias, Haifa, Beisan, Jaffa and Safad, all before May 15, caused Palestinians to flee their homes; and this is what caused a breakdown in the Oslo Agreement when Israel would not face the questions of reparation Compensation for an injury; redress for a wrong inflicted. The losing countries in a war often must pay damages to the victors for the economic harm that the losing countries inflicted during wartime. These damages are commonly called military reparations. and repatriation Repatriation The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country. Notes: If you are American, converting British Pounds back to U.S. dollars is an example of repatriation. . After May 15, Israeli forces caused the brutal evacuation of Lydda, Ramle, Doueimah and many other Palestinian villages and towns. - J. Nicassio Valencia Fast-food tactics Re Neal Bernard's ``Fast-food barons attempt to silence health advocates'' (Opinion, May 30): Bernard's arguments follow the well-rutted path of the Tobacco Nazis. Hidden within them is the premise that advertising cannot be resisted, that selling unhealthy foods is equivalent to forcing them upon victims. The tobacco companies have never employed press gangs, grabbing citizens off the street and injecting nicotine into their veins to create more addicted customers. Nor has McDonald's force-fed Big Macs to anyone. Perhaps the biggest fallacy in Bernard's screed screed n. 1. A long monotonous speech or piece of writing. 2. a. A strip of wood, plaster, or metal placed on a wall or pavement as a guide for the even application of plaster or concrete. b. is the insinuation INSINUATION, civil law. The transcription of an act on the public registers, like our recording of deeds. It was not necessary in any other alienation, but that appropriated to the purpose of donation. Inst. 2, 7, 2; Poth. Traite des Donations, entre vifs, sect. 2, art. 3, Sec. that evil fast-food purveyors are purposely siting themselves in poor neighborhoods. Bernard fails to grasp that poor people would love to eat salmon filets in Beverly Hills but must settle for Whoppers
Whoppers are chocolate-coated malted milk balls produced by The Hershey Company. . The inexpensive-food restaurants go where there is demand for inexpensive food. - James F. Glass Chatsworth Define limited To the letter writer (``Libertarian primer,'' May 30) responding to my May 27 letter, my apologies for misrepresenting your party's (Libertarian) political views as being supportive of a government that has little or no army or police. Thank you for setting the record straight. However, by ``limited government,'' you must therefore mean a laissez- faire (hands-off) government, where the government lets industry do pretty much what it wants. This would include monopoly, collusion, price fixing price fixing n. a criminal violation of federal anti-trust statutes, in which several competing businesses reach a secret agreement (conspiracy) to set prices for their products to prevent real competition and keep the public from benefiting from price competition. and other robber-baron tactics. If, once again, my perception is wrong, then pray tell what is limited about Libertarian government? - Craig Lennon Kysar Sherman Oaks Memorial Day I noticed that with all the Memorial Day celebrations there was only one sporting event that honored the veterans past and present, and that was NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. . They played ``Taps'' and ``Amazing Grace'' and did a special remembrance for all. Every race they have a preacher praying for everyone's family (fans included), they sing our national anthem and always have military present. Even included is a fly-by fly·by also fly-by n. pl. fly·bys A flight passing close to a specified target or position, especially a maneuver in which a spacecraft or satellite passes sufficiently close to a body to make detailed observations without with the local military base. Why don't more sports do this? - Rebecca Butler Sunland First, be funny Delbert Skinner (Public Forum, May 23) has it right. When we turn to the comics pages we do expect comedy and would like reason to laugh. As he listed: ``Get Fuzzy,'' ``Garfield,'' et al, do the job just fine. If I want to read about a young marriage breaking up (with or without the husband relapsing to alcoholism) or about a young couple facing the usual doubts and hopes of their first pregnancy (darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. by a review of a previous unwanted teen-age pregnancy), I can turn to the current events pages. With the comics pages we prefer to pretend and laugh. Please encourage your cartoon contributors to look up, again, the meaning of comic in their dictionaries. - Ruth Horgan Northridge |
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