The Fridge prostituted himself? Oh, fudge!

I disagree with Tom Fitzpatrick's column "It's money-maniafor Fridge" (April 8).

I see nothing wrong - as does Fitzpatrick - in William Perry"prostituting" himself in a "pro-wrestling" ring. Whether it wasright or wrong is actually a moot and subjective point. If promoterswaved a half million dollars in front of Fitzpatrick to wrestle TomWicker, I'm sure he'd feel differently.

Fitzpatrick writes of Perry's reputation and career advancement,and I have to wonder if being paid to wrestle is any different thanhawking hamburgers, automobiles or bacon. Are we talking aboutdegrees of prostitution here, or what? Exactly what is Perry'sreputation or special image that Fitzpatrick is referring to? Themedia helped create the image of William Perry as a fat, happy blackman who was playing football for the fun of it - a compliantcharacter that was safe to embrace. When he hires an agent andcharges fees for personal appearances and endorsements, Fitzpatrickis saddened, as if he's just discovering that there's no tooth fairy.

The truth is that Perry took advantage of a situation thatFitzpatrick and his colleagues created. He has made, and willcontinue to make, money from his name and fame - nothing more orless. It's not a situation that can be categorized as right orwrong. Let's not be hypocritical in condemning anyone in Americansociety who does the same. David Rubin, Hyde Park Roeser frightening

Thomas F. Roeser's April 2 Personal View, "Rightist dictatorshipor communism: which?," is frightening in that it parrots the verypropaganda fascists themselves have used to justify their existence.Roeser tries to get around this with the astonishing "logic" thatfascism is actually the same as communism so it isn't a form ofrightist dictatorship at all, a claim that Hitler, Mussolini andFranco would find amusing. But given that fascism is the 20thcentury's most pronounced and common form of rightist dictatorship,what Roeser is actually saying is that yes, if it comes to that, weshould support fascism because at least it is anti-communist.

This is precisely how fascists get to power in the first place,by riding the fear of communism straight into power. They presentpeople with the argument that only strong, authoritarian regimes canstand up against communism and that they stand for saving Christiancivilization from godless Bolshevism or, today, secular humanism.But where is the logic in a fascist police state protecting us from acommunist police state?

In reality, fighting communism with fascism is always a losingproposition. Democracy is the only way to fight communism. Tyrone Walls, West Rogers Park Injustice to Indians

On Saturday at 1 p.m., WTTW (Channel 11) will air the PBSprogram, "Trouble on Big Mountain." This program deals with theforced relocation of Dineh (Navajo)-Hopi traditional people from theBig Mountain/Joint Use Area in northeast Arizona.

Congress in 1974 passed a law for this relocation. If it is notrepealed (Public Law 93-531) the relocation is to be completed onJuly 8.

Over 10,000 native Americans remain on these sacred ancestrallands. Their history goes back before the formation of this country.

I urge Chicago area residents to watch this program and sharetheir feelings with their elected officials. Jerry Rees, Illinois Big Mountain/JUA Support Group, Lombard Bad taste

On April 4 the Sun-Times exhibited extremely bad taste with theprinted photo of a dead dog in mid-air, having been murderedsenselessly and thrown out of a window afterward.

Not only was the creature an innocent victim whose life wasended without mercy, but its existence was treated with no respect byits murderer. On top of that, a photographer was there ready to"capture the moment" of the degradation. While the situation thatprecipitated this killing is in itself a matter not to be takenlightly, the photo was not necessary and should not have beenprinted.Margi Domme, Country Club Hills Cunning GM

Your editorial (April 2) regarding GM's price increases shows afirm misunderstanding of the American way of doing business.

Haven't you seen the prices in the Ward's or Sears catalogues?They are generally higher than the items can be had for in manystores around the country. Some have a huge markup over the currentmarket prices in the discount stores.

A goodly number of people buy these items at those inflatedprices either for lack of understanding of the situation, lack oftransportation to shop or because of the credit offered.

Then, after the first wave of buying is over, these stores starttheir sales catalogues hitting those who were reluctant to pop forthe inflated price. Then another and another wave until, just beforea new catalogue is due, the price gets down to what they could havepurchased the item for at the outset, at the discount stores.

This, essentially, is what GM is doing. Oh, they may knock off1 percent of the sticker price to keep the naive customer thinking heor she is getting a real deal, but it is mainly a ploy to get theunwary or uneducated to pop for the big sticker price. It also,nowadays, enables them to offer the interest discount without losingmoney.

Things will really start popping if and when the Japanesemanufacturers have trouble selling their better-made cars and chopprices. Sam Thompson, Manhattan What a yack!

Berke Breathed, who created the cartoon strip "Bloom County,"says he sometimes makes airport security people go bananas with thesteel rods in his body and by wearing an "I love Khadafy" button.

If anyone in his family is ever a victim of Libyan-trainedterrorists he'll probably laugh all the way to the morgue. Delbert Bixler, Sarasota, Fla. Wonderful!

Ah! The Sun-Times and a cup of coffee in the morning - life iswonderful! Marcella Florzak, West Ridge