European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes february letters to the editor i i we liked it Here in Germany it seems like no one can really make up their minds about were due to leave Here in mid february and i really dont have any Ive been Here As Active duty and As a family weve lived on the Economy and in we liked it there were some bad broke Down Field problems and commissaries with near Emp to but being in Germany has also turned bad times into Good my at age had a heart attack and kidney failure with no the army got All of us to the states and the red Cross Lent us Money to get the rest of the his doctor credits his fast recovery to his being Able to see his then 15month old and then there were the Good a trip to the excellent doctors Ive had for my various medical the close knit american Community and the outstanding child care Center our Daugh Ter is All in All its been a Good every Post is what you make of its been Well be Rancourt Germany scholar suspects a plot to debase the Way we talk rated ideas in limited time and William an author and former United press International has compiled a list of such required by Jim Anderson Washington up Walter la a Washington suspects a he believes the enemy is out to debase equipment for any successful world affairs the american language before finishing Mineral Rich Katanga and the Oil Rich persian some times referred to in the second paragraph As lifeline of the Are some exam claims army erred on urine test Why is it that every time someone gets a positive result on a urine its never the army fault in not saying that its always the army but the army makes mistakes after the results came it showed that 1 had cocaine in my the funny thing about it is that i never touched the i had never seen it i could have lost the respect from the officers in after All the worry of what was to be done to they found out what had an enlisted member in the battalion tried to get his so called buddy off the Hook by switching paperwork and urine in not afraid to Tell anyone about this you in paperwork off the United in an article in the forthcoming Issue of Washington foreign policy and the English Laqueur has a name for the insidious Campaign Pitta the practice of using words without the word comes from the generic name for parrots and Par he says words such As conservative and Liberal or left Wing and right Wing Are now used without any real corrupted by those wishing to destroy the ideas behind the words and conceal their own he suggests the Success of such a Lan Guage corruption Campaign is not just la i ii i 1 1 o o the Only Way the army will get better is to change the they wonder Why the Zyness on the part of writers for sex retention rate amongst the enlisted ranks has dropped the past couple of John Paul Casey Germany helpful servicemen big Germany so viral times your paper has printed Arti cles concerning the rising Gas prices in Ger the most recent dated made recently i faced the return trip from the United states to Germany i was very apprehensive about making this trip without my but through this trip i Learned How wrong my image of our service Mem a big Deal about gasoline going up to Bers a gallon for Premium in everywhere i went these Young service Here at Ben Waters fab in we men help you it was such Shell out about per Imperial a refreshing change to meet these an Imperial gallon is on fifth larger no suggestive remarks were Ever than a but that still comes out Only the most courteous gentlemen were to an american and weve Ever been paying that for months we do take care of our i found out so when you Tell me that Gas prices in How wrong i my attitude has changed Germany Are a All i can say j l a i an nil m it d q it o i i Russell Maheras attach the labels of rightwing1 and left Wing to lebanese Mountain Vil Lages about which they know Laqueur suspects often directed from other for he says Western journalists and readers have been persuaded to consider detente a synonym for world while the soviet leaders consider it a condition for creating a decisive shift in the world similar arguments could be made for it is according to Meads to write intelligibly about India for a mass audience without referring to it As least once As the teeming or Central America without calling it like have to keep up with the Mead Points put that last years Frozen Tundra is this years fragile while indicting journalists for distorting ideas by using meaningless or inaccurate is willing to admit there Are some extenuating How does a reporter get a on word handle on the somewhat unstable Guam mar khad Afy of or Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his militant follow ers is it really accurate to describe people dressed in combat who take hos As fundamentalist More serious and in la queues Are the shorthand descriptions of some african or latin american nations As marxist when they have Little to do with orthodox marxism and Are really ant american or Laqueur subscribes to a theory of from one of doubt and mistrust to Admira and so id like to take this Opportunity to say thank you really were responsible for helping me get and i appreciate every one of you for everything you Hutchinson Germany George on profanity i came across this quote from a letter written by George Washington on july to some of his officers and thought he might like it published the general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and a vice heretofore Little known in our american is grow ing into he Hopes the officers by example As Well As Endeavor to Check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have Little Hope of the Blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impropriety and added to it is a vice so mean and without any that every Man of sense and character detests and despises Keller Germany reminder All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be we do not read unsigned but we will withhold your name on request and protect your writers Are encouraged to include phone number and Economy especially if they desire a fast because of the Large volume of mail this column receives letters that Are Brief and to the Point have a much better Chance of being Raf England the debasement of other words favored by George Orwell published in 1946 the Moscow in previous campaigns peace English language has become inaccurate or liberation or fraternal solicitude or deliberately misleading because it is meaning the invasion of a neighbouring to express foolish thoughts and the socialist state by the soviet Slove Liness of the language makes it was in the experience of another with Ier to have foolish a More benign it seems More Likely journalists adopt cliches that once had an element of truth to convey comply wants More live baseball games i would like to question the amount of live baseball games live football games of nov to the Best of my with foot broadcast division of american forces radio and television service replies the selection of sports events trans european edition Rose editor chief Mert Procto managing editor Elmer Henry manager manager Ball Only four weeks into the weve fitted live via satellite is made by arts already seen More live football games than outlets the Choice is made on we did baseball games the whole baseball their perceptions of audience season and within a limited in the past i am both a baseball and football but i would really like to see More live will this be possible in the future Purviance Germany editors note Hoyt few years Field outlets have requested Only one or two regular season baseball games in addition to the Allstar the Post season playoffs and the world any additional baseball games would mean that fewer College or pro football games could be broadcast in that fiscal in addition to the live sports events transmitted via some 20 baseball games Are videotaped at arts los an Geles and distributed worldwide in an aver age stripes lauded we would like to thank of nov and radio and the stars and stripes for their out standing coverage of the 1980 professional football we have been Here Many but this year has been the especially the Many live games on for those of us who Are staunch football you cant real ize How much this does for our please keep up the great 5 and John Hooker Germany this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for armed forces the stars and stripes is published in conjunction with the armed forces information program of the department of contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official View of the the depart ment of defense or the european the appearance of displays in this newspaper concerning commercial publications does not constitute an endorse ment of the department of including the military military address the stars and Apo International mall the stars and Postrach 11 10 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