PRESIDENT Yeltsin: statesman or international terrorist? Not content with accepting the support and admiration of the Western allies for the way he controlled, with minimal loss of life, a potentially explosive situation in his own country, President Yeltsin demanded financial support.
Having failed to win a financial commitment from the world's richest government in Tokyo, Yeltsin chose to drop a nuclear-waste bomb in the Sea of Japan.
He has gambled that the global community would rather bow to his financial demands than have the foundation of a primary food-chain, on which we all depend, destroyed by radioactive contamination.
Is this the action of a responsible world statesman? Or, is this the action of a terrorist who will stop at nothing to achieve his personal objectives? We must respond by paying what Yeltsin demands; for the future, we must remove all nuclear facilities - civilian and military - from the face of the earth. We - every man, woman and child on earth - cannot afford nuclear power while there are terrorists like Yeltsin amongst us.
MARTYN L. WILLES Stanley