European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 29, 1991 the stars and stripes what newspapers in he real Issue however is whether the great satirist can take a joke. Page 13 commentary Are saying at Home the rapid City . Journal according to reports out of Washington the Bush administration is tinally hard at work considering what to do to Spur the nation out o its economic woes. Among the options under consideration is a one time tax rebate of s200 to $300 per taxpayer. 1 hat plan reeks of election year politicking. Put some Cash in the voters pockets. Buy Hack sonic of Bush s abysmal approval rating which last week fell so Low that an Abc news Washington Post poll showed that seven out of 10 americans disapprove of Bush s handling of the Economy. Sure most americans could use an additional couple Hundred Bucks a hut giving it to them at the expense of increasing the Federal debt and without a solid indication that it will have a positive effect on the Economy does t make Indianapolis Star the . General Assembly s revocation last week of its 1975 statement equating zionism with racism is the Best evidence yet of the new political alignment of the world organization. The overwhelming vote of 111 nations favouring repeal with Only 25 mostly islamic or hard line communist nations opposed marked enhanced . Diplomatic clout. Repeal was King overdue. Although that . Vote pleases Israel the Shamir government May see it As a double edged sword. Western diplomats say the vote Means Israel can no longer successfully characterize the United nations As so prejudiced against it that it cannot be asked to cooperate with lbs. Efforts for Middle East Chattanooga Timas no one talks anymore about former president Reagan a pipe dream of building an impenetrable shield to protect the entire country from nuclear attack. But that does t mean the government has quit wasting Money on nuclear defences. Apologists for the strategic defense initiative now say missile defences Are needed to guard against nuclear attack by terrorists or some crazed third world dictator. Neither rationale is credible. Still under the missile defense act of 1991, Congress Calls for deployment of a ground based missile defense system he 19%. Quot Henry Cooper director of ski told the associated press that meeting the deadline requires acceleration of the program which had been geared to deployment at the turn of the Century. Speeding things up will add about $2 billion to the Cost of ski Over the next four or five years. The taxpayers Are somehow supposed to think that makes sense. It does Star and Tribune some people say or. Jack Kevorkian deserves More credit than he gets. In soliciting customers for his homemade Quot suicide machine Quot the Maverick pathologist has illuminated the wish of Many to choose the time and terms of death. But even die hard proponents of euthanasia should think twice before marching in Kevorkian s Parade. His antics arc More Likely to hobble than Advance the quest for death with dignity. His behaviour is hardly that of a sympathetic physician rescuing a patient from a protracted and painful exit. Indeed he seems More eager to peddle his machine than to address the hard questions that arise when patients insist life Isnit Worth . Daily mail readers Are familiar with the usual Garry Trudeau controversy. His comic strip satirizes some Public figure. Some editor somewhere pulls the strip. Night inc devotes 30 minutes to the f first amendment and by the next Morula. Trudeau is Back on the Komi pages again. The Wall Street journal which prints Stock Market prices instead of comics has put a new twist on this controversy. The pulitzer Prie winning paper dared Lampoon the pulitzer prize winning cartoonist and Hoy. Are his lawyers upset. On the surface the Issue is Trudeau s use of an assistant to Craft the final version of his strip. This is common practice on the comics pages. On nov. 21. The journal ran an editorial called Quot Garry Van ill poking fun at it. He can to according to a follow up editorial lawyers Lor the company that distributes have demanded a retraction Ami arc threatening Legal action. The journal gave them no satisfaction stating it was All meant in jest. Quot we d he Happy to litigate whether or. I Rudeau is More a Public figure than targets of his cartoons. A a journal editorial said. Say it in t so. Trudeau f ans would like to think you can take it its Well As you dish it . Times Union l acing precipitous drops in his approval rating ail apparently unable to conjure up a remedy for the souring Economy. President Bush last week slammed what americans see on televised trials As Quot filth and t he president no doubt had in mind the Smith Bowman rape trial in which vivid testimony was Given about a purported rape. Quot presumably Bush Hopes to bolster his popularity by strategic appeals to Quot family values Quot and such things just As he recently attempted to bolster the Economy in a $2$ Purchase of socks. A for the Sake of the co univ the president should spend his time trying to get the Economy moving again not taking Refuge in ersatz social issues. Besides the Public in t forced to watch these to trials the Columbus Ohio dispatch one of the vexing issues of the hol Hulynn health care crisis is the number of people in the nation who Lack health insurance. I hat Ligure a arrived at by extrapolating census Bureau data a is now reported at 34.7 in Ilion. What s the significance of this a it Means that such people Lizul treatment difficult or nearly impossible to get when they become ill. If Thev ate treated doctors often will do Only the minimum that is necessary. When people without insurance Are admitted in a Hospital most of their unpaid Bills Are Cost shifted to others who have insurance or pay their own Hills. I he Challenge now is to make rational effective changes rather than Rushing headlong into some Radical system that just would not be acceptable to most Peoples. Louis Post dispatch a health adv easy group the families Usa foundation. Says the average american Lamia spent sl.742 a year for medical care in 9m. I he figure includes out of Pockel expenses Poitev Lor health insurance and stale and Federal taxes to finance health programs. By the end of this decade the group projects that same family will spend $9,397 or health care. Still the nation s health and human services Secretary. Or. Louis Sullivan save there s no need to replace the existing system with National health in Sura Nee. Tits limited reforms show that the Bush administration has yet to grasp the Point that there a no belter Way to control health care costs and guarantee everyone Access to medical services than through National health Baltimore evening Sun Napoleon observed that history is an agreed upon table but the experts All agree on the spurious Ness of the Tabic concocted by director Olivic Stone m the film it a which is based on the assassination of i in Sidcot Kennedy. Stone s film. Says everyone with it. Is especially pernicious in making a Heio of James Garrison the new Orleans District Anionic a who abused Hist lick by persecuting an innocent Man on evidence wholly fabricated. I Here is a vast dil Terenee Between Tactual until and philosophical truth. I lie former belongs in the Calm of history Ami biography the latter in the realm of fiction. 11 we mix up these things wed it it a Disser v Lee to hot h history and Sacramento Calif Bee just a Day alter publicly voicing ins pessimism about the recovery trom the recession. Alan Greenspan joined ins colleagues at the pc dial Reserve Board in doing something decisive about in. By inducing the discount rate a full percentage Post. The l de has sent a Strong signal to Consumers producers and. Pointedly to Washington that it is committed to pushing the Economy Back Tow Aid growth by taking tie bold Quot step of knocking i in n t he discount late by a full percentage Point the fed has reminded the country that it can and intends to Light the recession. And it has taken some of the pressure of Congress and the president to Lake Panicky actions in an election year and engage in a bidding War that could swell the nation s budget deficit and undermine the Economy s future growth. Alter a Yeai of hardship and Drift it s a Long overdue gesture of firmness and Francisco examiner level ail indians. Atlanta braves Washington redskins. Those Are just a Lew of the hundreds of spurts organizations across the United Stales ranging from professional to Anchises to Tuli school teams whose names ref i to native americans. It s an old tradition that s in the news now because Many indians object to in. T hey say the names and the images associated with them such As the Quot Tomahawk chop and Quot War dance Quot chants popular among Atlanta tails arc demeaning. A lot o has and players dismiss the indians pro Iesals. I he use of Indian images is positive. Some at Guc. Some invoke team tradition As tans we admit these arguments strike a Ilerd. Hanee the name of the Washington redskins u w hat a i lie api lol deadbeats a hanging team names won t r cd Ess i he w rungs done to indians. But it would he a step toward making our nation sensitive to the Hurt Home in the land s first inhabitants a sensitivity that might Lead to More substantial Healing. It is a Small step hut one Wilh taking
