THE CITIZEN REGISTERS Here’s what I think Carter criticized for hostage deal Mr. President, from the first day of the misfortune, the country was in sgreement and with full support of your stand on the hostage problem. Everyone was applauding your de mands for a UN, Security Council decision condemning Iran's action, and you won it, except for the Soviel ‘veto, You pressed foF @ resolution in the U.N. Assembly and you got it by an overwhelming majority. The World Court condemned their action. Our ‘own Congress and the Senate gave you full support to apply cconomic sane- tions. “Everyone was in agreement with your siand which was no deals— the hostages must be releasod first ‘Yel you procrastinated and allow- ed Mr. Waldheim to go to Tehran ance ‘and a second time supposedly to inter- vvene for you. Now Mr. Waldheim by his actions fas shown up time and again that he is not a friend of the United States; he is always catering to the Third World, he is the one who {irat introduced the term Commission to Investigate the Shah and American connections wrth him. This is ridicu- lous. We dealt wiih him as a head of a friendly country. We are now dealing with Soviet Russia and with Red China as with other Communist con tries, and suppose tomorrow there ie revolution and a different form of government takes over, woul feel guilty and apologize for dealt with the former goveraments? Suppose China will accuse us. for having supported Taiwan, what then? Where do you stop? The mere fac that you allowed yourself to he inves- tigated by a commnitico is admission of guilt ‘Mr. President, T respect yon as a person and certainly as my President, ‘but believe me it hurts every Amer! can to see our great country on its -Mnees to a bunch of hocligans who toy with human lives like a cat and mouse, having honor or respect for nothing and nobody. You give them a finger and they want the whole hand. Now that you agreod to a commission, they will increase their demands, and what then? A. COHEN 23 Forest ave, Ossining ‘TO THE EDITOR: : Byeryone is acquainied, by now, witl the bad things whieh Presigent Nixon cid uring his time in office, ard they were ‘many. But let us not forget also, some of the good things he dig. ‘dre thece was performed a soon a8 the oil em ‘developed. He called on ail the large oiksig nations to tmet and cprésent a united front against the oil-prod- tucing nations. Nothing much came of this, Dut Gat was not is foul. Ie was the cow. ardly action by the European nations and ‘Japan who knockled under to the Arabs. ‘Another step was appointment of a com- ‘mittee on energy to study the possibilits ‘eval into gas or oll so shat we wor"? ot be dependent upon Arabs or our good neigh- bors. Well, do you hear anything about this ‘now? Not much either from the President ‘or trom Congress. They will tell you it is ceostly, pothaps, but the money to produce such energy would remain in this country OA! 9e ‘We do not see any De instesd of getting cts. ‘With no end in sight. we hear ad from all sites to raise the price of gas by 20 or 9 cents per gallon, restrict ‘build smaller cars, Pethaps these meas. tres would be a stop gap, but it sure isnot Up to now we have had moaning, advis- ing and predictions while waiting for the Arabs’ second shoe to fall. We should be able to counter the Arabs’ moves. Our wmeat-great grandparents found ways. to deal with the Arab pirates oftheir time. At itis time we do not see any leadership ‘of “from the President or Congress. ‘extracting oil from shale and converting — ‘nother problem concerns the race io supply Arabs with, ne most modera arms lie pts the U.S. rane and England ‘nfortarate things is these weapors aay be pointed at us some day. ABRAHAM COHEN, 28 Forest Avenue