
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 10, 1994                    TAG: 9406100018 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A18    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Short 
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I LOVE YOU, OLLIE

{LEAD} I can see why Elizabeth Taylor has been married so many times if all the husbands she's had were like John Warner - to malign a man like Ollie North when John sits up in Washington with all those noble people like Teddy Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bob Packwood, Dan Rostenkowski and on and on.

I love you, Ollie - just wish I lived in Virginia so I could work and vote for you.

{REST} Your wife need not be jealous; I'm 69 years old and never in my life have I seen a braver man than you. You sat facing that hostile body of people representing the United States (the cause of the mess we're in today), and you never flinched. It's a shame you didn't run for president as millions wanted you to. But if you had, special prosecutor Laurence Walsh wouldn't have been able to carry on his witch hunt for seven years and rake in $40 million of the taxpayers' money.

President Reagan called you a hero and so do I.

BETTY G. BAKER

Williamston, N.C., June 4, 1994 by CNB