Love Canal

* How good to hear that the Clinton administration was finally able to settle the long-standing claim against Occidental Chemical for Love Canal clean-up costs (Dec. 22). By my calculation, however, EPA head Carol Browner was still fresh out of college when her EPA predecessors were taken hostage at Love Canal by Lois Gibbs and the other “housewives from New York.�

Writing about Love Canal without once mentioning Gibbs and the movement she spawned is like writing about civil rights without mentioning Martin Luther King.

MAUREEN SMITH

Rancho Palos Verdes