20 MAY 2000, Page 27

Steyn off-target

From Mr Herman Volkner Sir: There is something decidedly unsavoury about seeing Mark Steyn (The loony Right', 29 April) deploy his trade- mark sarcasm not against the effluvium of Hollywood or White House mendacity, but against the Miami relatives of the waif Elian Gonzalez. Perhaps, like Janet Reno, he prefers to train his guns on the defence- less: innocuous cultists, or a six-year-old in the arms of his unsophisticated rescuers. Whatever his reason, I find disgraceful the cruel abuse he heaps on the Cuban family who in their naivety thought they lived in a country governed by law.

Herman Volkner

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