European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Pago 11 John Oakes water projects Ripe for budget cutting the one major increase in the budget announced by president Reagan in his budget address wednesday evening was a multimillion Dollar jump for the military in the name of National but to measure National Security solely in military terms is to ignore a threat to the National Security of which Reagan seems totally it Springs from the unprecedented pressures of global population in worldwide resource and Universal environmental men acing the Security and stability of this and every other what is and becoming rapidly More is the rate of population growth in the most impoverished countries exhaustion of renewable resources in the most Over populated countries and susceptibility to demagogic exploitation in the most underdeveloped this fatal conver the stars Andi Lpes european edition Rose Usa 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family food conserva Tion of Forest and water and pollution control arc no less vital to Ameri can Security than to International even the notoriously tight listed in such announced the other Day a 100 percent increase in their projected foreign Aid Over the next four As a contribution to International peace and it is still disgracefully but the japanese Are moving with their Usu Al pragmatism in the necessary this administration so far shows no such intentions and it appears equally shortsighted at presumably on the theory that the Way to kill bad news is to kill the there is talk in Washington of killing the Council on environmental Quality created during the Nixon it is the one Federal Agency qualified and required to advise the president on environmental it needs to be not the government has no Center for coordinating data and forming coherent policy on global resource issues a task now scattered among a dozen Federal the Council is the logical place to establish such an environmental War from which american technical and informational expertise could be most efficiently it is curious that in his plans to Cut out waste and fat from the environmental Reagan has virtually ignored the one area most notoriously reeking of waste and fat the water projects pork by eliminating Only a Hal dozen of the most economically unsound and Environ mentally destructive projects from Carters 1982 Reagan could save a Cool three quarters of a billion dollars in the coining fiscal a prime example is the billion ten  offering a lucrative shortcut to the Gulf of Mexico for a few Large shippers and Barge through the Home territory of House appropriations committee Jamie Whitten of by cutting this scandalous Boondoggle out of the Reagan could save million in 1982 c new York times letters to the editor sweat Over the woolly Pulley More on the combat sweater cafes has taken Over the clothing sales numerous stores now put the woolly Pulley in the clothing sales the incident i am going to describe took place Between a staff sergeant and you arc not authorized to Wear that Why i got it at the clothing sales then an explanation so i suggest Usa eur require the Exchange to put the sweater Back in the men s Section of the store and As a poor place a Large sign stating the sweaters arc not authorized for Wear with the Mike Johnson Germany editors note William merchandising he replies the woolly Pulley sweater will be removed from any military clothing sales store which had mistakenly included it in its Stock you Are Correct that this is not an authorized uniform item for american dolls and prejudice problems i am writing in reference to the woman who could not find the Black baby doll for her Little before i saw a Large selection of Black As Well As White dolls in Heidel i did not like the looks of the White so i bought my Little daughter a Black baby my three Earold loves and plays with it the same As her other we Are not and i feel sad that a Little Black girl has to play Only with Black and White girls Only with White that How the problems of prejudice i i am a Mother of and i try to Leach my kids not to refer to color with other it is not the Black boy or the White it is just the and i never hear my Little daughter say my Black to her it is just my Phillips Germany language course in Bengali your paper ran several stories concerning shortage of linguists in the armed i would feel proud to Volunteer a Bengali language course for the interested members of the armed you surely know that Bengali is the sixth largest language in the world falling behind Spanish and it is one of the major languages in spoken by More than 80 million peo ple in 55 million in the Indian states of West megh Alaya and West Bengal and Tripura Are Bengali spoken More than 3 million people in the a akan province of Northern Burma speak it is understood in most parts of India and of All Indian languages Bengali has the richest the Bengali poet Ravindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature More than half a Century he was the first asian to get such an Bengali is necessary for defense purposes in the Hills and Jungles of Eastern India May turn into the next Battleground of the forces of communism and those of situations May demand the to take More interest into the matters of that knowledge of Bengali will help at that Ahmed Germany Why he wont rep i have been stationed Here in Germany for six months and have come to the Stark realization that i have no intention to re enlist for numerous first of i have seen a serious Lack of leadership among the higher ranking per discipline is seriously Defi and but not the Good sol Diers get Little or no appreciation for doing an outstanding i have noted that there arc officers and cos with Over 10 years of service getting it is Little wonder that the army has a serious retention it is about Lime the army lakes a closer look at How its troops arc being if these problems keep getting we might not have an army 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