Marcos Reyes (Letters, Mar. 22 - 28) joins Hur Ramos (letters, Mar. 1-7) in criticizing Maximo V. Soliven for attacking opposition politicians. Both gentlemen feel that a person who has cast his lot with the opposition should only attack the administration.

They proceeded on the wrong premise.

Soliven is not an oppositionist. He never was. He is and always has been a journalist . . . the kind who believes that his task is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

Soliven looks like an oppositionist only because at this point in time, so many of the afflicted -- and so few of the comfortable -- are oppositionists.

EPIFANIO DENSING, JR.