Gorbachev

Continual presentation of speculation as news regarding the disposition of Mikhail Gorbachev’s political future in Moscow is disheartening. We hear this speculation, reprinted in our newspapers, from the lips of Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and not from any other reputable source.

Must we not also consider that Cheney has a vested interest in a Gorbachev failure? Why must the proponents of our military-industrial complex continually bombard us with dark propaganda? Can we not applaud political change in Eastern Europe and Soviet Asia, however violent, and consider that change a sign of a good future?

RHYS THOMAS

Sherman Oaks