Mayor Tom Bradley

Doesn't Mayor Tom Bradley have anything better to do than plan a monument celebrating Los Angeles as home to immigrants? Following are some of the problems he might address himself to: --The mess on the freeways, including trucks jackknifing and spilling their loads all over the place. --Gang warfare--I suggest he call out the National Guard. FLORENCE GLICK Pasadena

A resolution urging the U.S. Postal Service to honor former Mayor Tom Bradley with a commemorative stamp was passed unanimously by the City Council on Tuesday. A Postal Service official told the council that the agency receives about 1,000 proposals for commemorative stamps each year and the service typically takes about three years to decide. The resolution was written by Councilman Bernard C. Parks.

As a law school classmate of Melanie Lomax, a guy who bumped into Mayor Tom Bradley one day in Sacramento and a recipient of an LAPD traffic ticket in 1966, I'm eminently qualified to suggest a way to improve three public offices without adding to the public payroll: Melanie Lomax for City Council; Tom Bradley for police chief, and Daryl Gates for mayor. PETER C. CARTON, Bakersfield

Mayor Tom Bradley's and Mas Fukai's (an aide to Supervisor Kenny Hahn) complaints that racism and Japan-bashing played a major role in the loss of Sumitomo's Green Line contract are an attempt to divert public attention away from the real villains in this sorry fiasco: U.S. politicians and bureaucrats who have consistently sought to degrade American competitive standing through harmful and idiotic trade policies. DAVID M. THEISS Lakewood

Retiring Mayor Tom Bradley will reflect on his two decades in office and offer his post-election thoughts on the future of Los Angeles in an hourlong interview on KCBS' "Newsmakers," Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on Channel (2). The NBA Finals continue on Sunday when the Phoenix Suns play the Chicago Bulls in Game 3 of their best-of-seven series at 4 p.m. on NBC, Channels 4, 36 and 39.

Mayor Tom Bradley is on the wing again, heading first to his Texas hometown of Calvert to dedicate a power plant, his office announced Monday. Bradley left Los Angeles on Monday for Calvert, which is about 45 miles south of Dallas, and will spend two days there. Today the mayor will begin two days of meetings in New York with General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith and other executives of the giant auto maker, which has an assembly plant in Van Nuys.