Letter: Politician hurts cause of exiles

Sunday, April 30, 2000 | 10:40 a.m.

I watched CNN's "Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields" last weekend as the right-wing Republican hack Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart said a Band-Aid covers a site on Elian's wrist where the Cuban government psychiatrist has already injected him with drugs in order to begin "his brainwashing."

I am distressed that the statement was allowed to go unchallenged by either the right-wing Robert Novak or the liberal commentator Mark Shields.

I think that for a U.S. representative, who admittedly hadn't been present at the Gonzalez home in Miami nor at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, is reprehensible. Granted, he is an American of Cuban descent, who is anti-Castro. I share his dislike of Castro, but to air a blatant lie such as he did does the cause of democracy a grave injustice.

WILLIAM ROY TUCKER

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