DALY REPLIES

My reference to Mr. Levy in my review as a former Times reporter was indeed a factual error due to my own confusion, for which I apologize to Crimson readers. As to Chavez's health during the march, Chavez himself says [on page 211 and 212] the pain was severe. "I was so miserable, I thought I was going to die...By then my leg was swollen all the way up to my thigh, and I was running a high fever. I continued walking, but on the seventh day, because I was shaking with fever, the nurse put me in the station wagon." In short, the man was in pretty tough shape.

My reference to the author's arrival in California was the result of the ambiguities of his own preface, in which he writes that he first came to Delano in 1969 without indicating where he came from.

As for the author's other contention, I can only repeat that I feel, from both a biographical and a historical standpoint, a book on Chavez would best be written after some definitive resolution of the current struggle.