Your constant criticism and cheap shots at President Reagan are getting redundant, although one should not expect anything else from your liberal editorial staff. While quick to criticize [Ronald] Reagan's presidency, you conspicuously neglect to point out what he has accomplished. Since Reagan has been in office, Soviet-inspired insurgency has failed to topple a democratic government anywhere in the world. The U.S. Armed Forces have been rehabilitated after the neglect and cutbacks of the Carter administration. Wall Street is healthy and most Americans are prospering. And, most importantly, U.S. troops are not engaged in combat anywhere on the face of the Earth.

After six years of competent leadership, the leftist American media continues its furious assault on Reagan. I, for one, am tired of hearing about the so-called Iran-Contra ``scandal.`` A scandal that has been engineered, promoted and virtually run into the ground by the media. I personally think that it speaks well of President Reagan that the worst thing the media has to rant about is the fact that he tried to save kidnapped American citizens by swapping arms for them. Lt. Col. North's equation that 300 TOW missiles equals one American citizen does not reflect the Reagan administration's value of human life, but rather the value of human life as seen through the eyes of the barbaric Iranian government.

Editor: This is for everyone who feels, to quote one reader, they `` ... didn't vote for Nancy`` and that she shouldn't make any important decisions, e.g., firing Donald Regan. Did they ever think, considering the way the President's been handling things lately, that maybe Nancy is more competent than Mr. Reagan to make those decisions? Lana Quincey, St. Petersburg