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Your editorial endorsement of a residency requirement for New York City police officers (''Local Cops Might Be Better Cops,'' June 5) is wrong on two counts.

A Rutgers University music professor, George Walker, is among...

Recent cries on the streets for ''democracy now!'' have tended to portray democracy as an absolute condition - get rid of the present Government or hold direct elections and then democracy will be achieved. Democracy is a process, and as many sophisticated South Koreans, both in the Government and in the opposition, have reminded me, South Korea lacks some of the institutions and traditions for modern democracy. A direct Presidential election will not necessarily bring the millennium. It could, however, give a nudge toward acceptance and legitimacy, and that is a necessary step toward the first peaceful transfer of power that President Chun Doo Hwan seeks. Seoul has handled its economic and social change with remarkable sophistication. Inflation has been defeated, the international debt is being paid off and a new middle class is sharing in the benefits of the economic ''miracle.'' Moreover, South Korea has just passed through its first period of intense political turbulence without calling out the military to restore order.

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My daughter was born deaf. (''Deaf'' is not, of course, a well-defined word. Ms. [Lou Ann Walker] does not say how deaf her parents are. Perhaps totally, perhaps not. My daughter is ''profoundly'' deaf, the category closest to ''totally.'') She is now 18 and a sophomore at a good private college, where she has a B average.