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To the Editor: 

According to a recent report, Saddam Hussein has 48 “presidential palaces.” He has oil income. He has a large army. He can legally import food and humanitarian supplies. In other words, he has all the resources he needs to ensure the health of every Iraqi child should he choose to do so. 

To say, as Helen Caldicott is quoted (Daily Planet, Oct. 21), that a purported 500,000 Iraqi children have died because “they lack clean water and medications due to US sanctions on their country” is simply wrong and simply disgusting. 

David Rowland 

Berkeley