Given its importance in national history, Mexican politicians and political parties refer frequently to the Revolution in their political rhetoric.

Retailers and politicians refer to fatally wounded evergreens as "holiday trees."

In it a politician refers to the "black hole of constituency financing."

To the Editor: When politicians and the news media refer to a "patients' bill of rights," we are being manipulated (front page, July 16).

A politician who lacked backing in Parliament referred to his "mobile party"- the people in the streets.

It is outrageous that the paranoid politicians Mr. Lewis refers to cannot put the public interest ahead of personal inclinations, as my father did.

The politician was referring to the leaders of Egypt and Syria, which oppose Baghdad.

Those vaguely undemocratic implications are apt to evoke charges of class warfare when politicians refer to "the rich."

Now, normally, during peacetime, politicians will refer to members of the military as our young men and women around the world.

I know it is a word that can mean various things, but we must ask why some continental politicians refer to the word' federal'at every opportunity.