European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday january 5, 1992 thes european edition circulation 100,000 col Gene e. Townsend Usan commander publisher Bernard a. Zovi5toski editor Bill Walker european editor Deborah Aba her news editor Bob Wicker sports editor Bryan Nolan City editor George mares special sections editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37 6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or ets 348-8 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237,255, 282, 226, 326, sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. Features ext. 230, 245,341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business ext. 326. News bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Ken blouson. 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So what the germans Are telling everyone is that i As a Parent can to spank my child if needed. But it is of. For our kids to grow up and be prostitutes granted there Are people who abuse spanking As disciplinary action. Those prostitutes most Likely come from Homes where there was no spanking discipline. A disciplined child will know the distinct difference Between right and wrong. So How backward is backward spanking can be made illegal while Selling and abusing your soul mind and body is Legal a Tammi Mitchell Baum older Germany practice birth control. This does not just apply toward Black people. It Means that White people too must Stop abusing welfare. Welfare costs our country Well into the Hundred billion dollars every year. We spend More today on welfare than we Ever have. It its about time people Stop lying to themselves and admit that the welfare system and civil rights Are very badly  in this next election Duke will throw these issues out into the Public editor s note a. Letters to the editor once again. And this time George Bush will be the one answering to the people who Are outraged at these issues. I Hope David Duke and conservative columnist Patrick Buchanan bring Bush to his Knees and fight against All the social injustices that Bush refuses to believe exist. Maybe this time Well find a Good Republican president who will work with the people and become More Domestic is involved with issues Duke gets support pm so relieved that the election in Louisiana is Over with. I am however very disappointed at the outcome of the election. In be been an Active supporter of David Duke for about three years now and feel that he is a very powerful and influential speaker in politics today. I think that his fight for equal rights for All people and rejection of quota Bills and affirmative action make him stand out among All the other politicians. I am outraged at All the negative publicity that he has received for what he believes in. All his opponents keep harping on him about his past with the Kkt. They also accuse him of being a White supremacist. I think this is a Bunch of Hogwash. David Duke believes that All the government systems that were once used to help the people Are very badly abused. He wants to Cut welfare to people who refuse to work an commentary James j. Kilpatrick the Holiday season and the military Mai room closings associated with it have combined to produce a shortage of letters to the editor so this feature is being abbreviated for the duration. In place of letters we will present comment by our stable of columnists. Meanwhile we encourage our readers to write us and express their views on any matters of Public interest. Letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. 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Central Village St. Catherine Jamaica West indies lawyers take leaves Well dry b Quot the one great principle of the English Law a wrote Charles Dickens a is to make business for  that Sterling Maxim came to mind a few Days ago. I was Reading a piece in the Washington Post about the Ltd corp. The article evoked the most famous lawsuit in the whole of English literature the proceeding in a Nancey known As Jarn Dyce is Jarn Dyce. It is fully reported in Dickens Bleak House to which i commend your attention. The posts article a Nice piece of work by staff writer Brett a Fromson provides a splendid example of the Ickens principle in contemporary application. Ltd was at one time a major engineering firm. It manufactured missiles steel military aircraft drilling equipment and other such Large and expensive objects. The company fell upon hard times. In july 1986, it filed for bankruptcy. Its liabilities amounted to $11.4 billion. Its assets Are placed at $6.6 billion. At the rate the assets Are being depleted by Bankers and lawyers the $6.6 billion will not last for Long. This is hauntingly in the tradition of Jarn Dyce is. Jarn Dyce. The creditors and shareholders of the ill fated company have yet to receive the first dime. The lawyers Are not so deprived. Fromson has no sensitivity. With unforgivable bluntness he observes that the lawyers Bankers accountants and other advisers a have been feeding at the  gracious the matter might have been stated with More Grace for he is Here speaking of a vast company of professionals whose feelings Are easily wounded. According to a confidential Ltd document Fromson reports the company already has paid $162.8 million in bankruptcy expenses of which $144.5 million is in professional fees. An end is nowhere in sight. A the largest chunk of the professional fees has gone to the lawyers representing Ltd. Davis Polk amp Wardwell of new York has received $26 million Kaye scholer Fierman Mayo amp handler also of new York $10.7 million and Leboeuf Lamb Leiby amp Macrae of Washington $3.5 million for a total of $40.2  some of the fees Fromson reported Are remarkably creative. A Boston Law firm billed Ltd for a passive  when the bankruptcy judge inquired what was meant by a passive travel a the lawyers explained Deadpan that passive travel is the time a lawyer spends sleeping in his first class seat As he flies to an Ltd appointment. Getting Back to Bleak House the plot turns on the probate of a will. The Case drags on interminably generation after generation. At last a Day is fixed for a final decree. Two characters Allan and Esther arrive late at the courthouse. They Are puzzled by the High spirits of hangers on in the Hall. A we asked a gentleman by us if he knew what cause was on he told us Jarn Dyce and Jarn Dyce. We asked him if he knew what was doing in it he said really no he did not nobody Ever did but As Well As he could make out it was Over. Over for the Day we asked him. No he said Over for  a Jolly crowd Rolls out of the courtroom a and presently great bundles of paper began to be carried out a bundles in bags bundles too Large to be got in any bags immense masses of papers of All shapes and no shapes which the bearers staggered under Ana threw Down for the Tim being while they went Back to bring More. Even these clerks were  Allan asks the Lead lawyer a do i understand that the whole estate is found to have been absorbed in costs a a them i believe so a returned or. Kenge. Critics rank Bleak House among the five Best novels of Dickens. A tvs a creditors could read it and weep for truth As they say is often stranger than fiction. 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