European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 5, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 13what newspapers Are saying at Home commentary better More human More productive society. Americans dealt happily and self confidently with the task of absorbing the returning gis and putting the Economy on a peacetime footing after world War ii. A similar task faces the country now. A new world awaits with new challenges and opportunities. This is no time for America to lose its pioneering spirit. Practice in effect cheating american enterprises out of billions of dollars in Revenue As the chinese cheaply manufacture a and then flood the world Market with a Many kinds of things originally created Here. Dialogue. Chinese style. Has not worked so far. Perhaps we regret to say a More aggressive approach will see some  Detroit news the Bush administration in the person of Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher has decided that Japan is a up Wirtly Quot to blame for the recession. Mosbacher. President Bush s re election Cam paigly manager claims the japanese Are a exacerbating the problem Quot by keeping out Job producing . Exports. Worried about re election. President Bush and his political advisers indulge the democrats demagogic blaming of foreigners for americans problems. By following the democratic line on foreign scapegoating the Bush administration has shifted attention away from americans self made problems. But the result May be much worse Trade restrictions that leave the real underlying problems unaddressed and mire the Economy further in  and Constitution Atlanta so much time has elapsed since president Bush first committed himself to a major far Eastern trip that two fading prime ministers whose political fortunes he had hoped to brighten with his reflected glow a australians Bob Hawke and Japan a Toshiki Kaifu a have been dumped by their respective parties. With Bush gearing up for re election naturally the purpose of the tour has had to be altered. What began As a Mission to assure major Pacific allies about americans Post cold War Security commitments has been transformed into a mainly economic venture to open markets especially Japan a and South Korea a wider to . Exports and to produce in Bush s words a jobs jobs and jobs. Quot Quot a new Day new York some japanese have criticized president Bush for taking an entourage of 21 corporate executives on a Pacific rim sales trip. But americans May have More reason to complain a especially if they Are democrats a because this sales trip is looking More and More like a Campaign trip. Of course it s not unusual for a president to have one Eye on his Domestic political image when he travels abroad. What s unusual a and risky when dealing with Japan a is to take along members of a powerful economic interest group who Are also a potential source of major Campaign contributions. Instead of trailing Bush around the Pacific rim. Let Detroit Stop Auto executives stay Home and figure out How to build cars americans want to buy at prices they can Al Nae the Sun Baltimore Ever pliable Ever pragmatic a now even partly protectionist in Pursuit of political Points a president Bush is off on a 12-Day trip to Asia in which his White House re election Hopes have replaced Pacific Security concerns As the major focus. A some might wish Bush would stick by his alleged convictions by lighting protectionism and anything even hinting of America inc. But that is not this president s style. Principles Are for Guys who lose  Angeles times once again the dialogue in .-Japan relations finds Washington demanding concessions from Tokyo. Fine a maybe All is fair in love and Trade negotiations. But the Bush administration is playing a dangerous game of excess this time in blaming Japan in so Many words for the . Recession. Twenty six thousand Miles is a Long Way to go Lor solutions to economic problems rooted largely in oui own Back  neb world Herald the end of the cold War Means the downsizing of the defense establishment and lower payrolls in communities near Large military bases. But it also Means that americans can devote More of their physical and spiritual resources to the task of building Boston Herald for decades of oppression citizens of Eastern Europe Are entitled an accounting. Those who decry efforts to punish officials of former communist regimes or to limit their roles in what Are now democratic governments have a misplaced sense of Justice. A just following orders Quot is no More a legitimate excuse today than it was 46 years ago. Like the victims of nazism the victims of communism Are right to demand that Justice be  Boston Globe the need to Reform the financing of health care in the United Stales a a problem that american voters Are painfully aware of a is underscored by another round of projected increases in health costs. The new predictions say the nation s health care Bill will soar to $817 billion in 1992 a an $80 billion increase that will raise health expenditures to an All time High of 14 percent of the Gross National product. To the Layman that Means one Dollar in every seven produced by the National Economy will have to spent on health care a a troubling message especially when medical costs Are expected to accelerate even taster Over the next five years. On this Issue voters Are Way ahead of their elected officials in demanding a National plan for affordable health  news los Angeles they May have to scrimp in these recessionary times hut a growing number of the nations parents Are transferring their children from Public to private schools. With rising concerns about a Lack of Quality and safety in Public schools More families Are willing to pay to remove their children from second rate educational environments. With so Many Middle class families struggling to give their children a private school education subsidies Toi such schooling no longer can be dismissed As merely a favor for the privileged few. A the Providence . Journal it is heartening to see the Bush administration getting Tough on China Over the outrageous pirating of copyrighted and patented materials. For years chinese organi Lions have been brazenly engaging in Thistle Washington Post stepping Down wednesday As United nations Secretary general Javier in Erez de Cuellar leaves the world body a far More useful and valued institution than he found it 10 years ago. There is a hitch. T he United nations is broke. Most members done to keep up on their assessed contributions for either the regular budget or peace keeping. But while policy making Washington keeps promising to pay up. Budget balancing Washiington can to find the Money. T he Point is not after All. To do something a for the  the Point is to do something for the United states. At a time when american policy Anil the world trend run toward giving More responsibility to multinational agencies the United states is not carrying its  a chronicle san Francisco first consider whether you believe the Warren report. If you done to consider seeing Oliver stones new movie Jhk which depicts the assassination of president Kennedy As a coup do eat staged by a vast conspiracy. But if you do believe the Warren report there May be even More reason to see the movie to Challenge your assumptions about nov. 22, 196.1. And after. There is plenty of evidence the Warren commission s Lonc gunman theory does t solve the Case. If there Isnit a National soul searching Over what really happened Why Isnit there we should want the  Diego Tribune Over the years t Ime Magazine s annual Man of the year designation has taken on a certain cachet. Defined As the person who a has had the greatest Impact for belter or worse on world events Over the past 12 months a a the Man or woman of the Yeai usually is a fairly obvious Choice. T he Choice of t de Turner is a joke. Yes. It was a Good year for t Urner. 11 is networks did a line Job of covering the news his Atlanta braves won the Pennant lie married Jane Fonda. But Man of the year no was