European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday. January 19, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 13commentarywhat newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United states. The editorials Are provided to the stars and stripes by the associated press and United press daily news our Economy Ceri Ninny in t driven by production any More. Perhaps it s our Talent Lor self absorption that makes it fire fitfully. Take the recent Hoo hah Over breast implants. Twenty years ago. The Carol Doda style of implant was very hot. Alas they had a Way of turning into Concrete and changing location in the body a distraction at the very least. The newer ones being softer Are merely suspected of leaking vile chemicals into the system. But plastic surgeons kept doing them. Some of the loonies shrinks called implants a a self esteem Issue asserting those women w without Large breasts were somehow impaired. Anyway the Pood and drug administration this week decided there in t enough data yet to ban the things outright but there is enough to warn people about them and to urge manufacturers and surgeons not to use them on actual people. This leads to concern about the Fate of the businesses of All those plastic surgeons and of the manufacturers who Hac been churning out expensive Little sacks of silicone. No one seems yet to have wondered Why so much of our culture seems Devo Toiuo telling women that something is wrong with them. Arkansas Democrat Gazette Little Rock president George Bush s Trade loosening trip to Japan was the qualified Success Bush is claiming it was. But he a being Kibit cd by the . Automakers he took along with him As added pressure against Japan s Trade barriers. T he big tin be Bosses broke into a chorus of lamentations when the president notified them of the accords details. Not nearly enough they howled declaring the trip a virtual failure. T he japanese snapped Back that the United slates is making a Scapegoat out of them for its own inability to cure its economic ills. What the japanese should have said is this that american automakers were trying to Scapegoat Japan s Auto Industry for their own inability to make and sell to americans the kind of ears that a in open Competition with ours in this country a have won Japan a third of our Auto Angeles daily news you Don t sell products by creating ill will among potential customers. But Chrysler corp. Chairman i be Iacocca seemed to be doing his Best last week to make the japanese hate him. Even As he complained that they Don t buy enough of his company s cars. After returning from t Okyo As part of president Bush s Trade Mission Iacocca gave a Litany of reasons Why american car makers have such a hard time Selling cars in Japan. As lie told the Story everything seemed to be Japan s fault. Iacocca would do himself and fellow automakers a favor by trying to compete rather than complain. I be can Start by treating the japanese not As the enemy but As a people to do business with. Then he can try to give them what they really want. In Short he should practice some real salesmanship for a Baltimore Sun i Laving made a mess of things during his Auto Salesman s trip to Japan. President Bush has returned Home to boost his faltering re election Campaign by bashing prance and the european Community that seems to do its bidding. This is excellent targeting. While Japan is insular and xenophobic by reason of its Island geography and its homogeneous population. Frances Brand of protectionism is relatively gratuitous a Triumph of political timidity Over principle. We Are pleased Bush came Home and changed the focus to where it belong son French obstructionism. For if a Batista Corv Accord is not attained by then what Little Chance that an increasingly protectionist Congress will ratify a new a i i treaty will be just about free press for All the deafening noise about the japanese destroying the . Auto Industry this country s most dramatic a and most important a struggle for Trade liberation is being fought in i Nev a. Soil or Laius. If the general agreement on tariffs and t Rade a worldwide Trade organization reaches the unprecedented Barrier busting treaty that the United states has been advocating since i9n2. Our country and most other nations stand to reap staggering benefits in economic growth. The talks however have been stalled since december 1990. T he shortsightedness of some european Community members especially i Ranee. And of India among the developing nations has been a major reason. But the rising protectionist hysteria in the United Stales hardly state journal Madison president Bush has hit upon a sure fire Way to show lie s in touch with the common Man catching the flu. Millions of americans can sympathize with the commander in chief who did what the australians Call a a technicolor Yawn at a stale dinner in Tokyo. We now know just How it feels to be the Worth Texas Star Telegram "v4 plops weal is an old show Biz term that describes the perspiration that Breaks out when a performer gels a hint that the act is not going Over. Tell us Liovvi it feels. Or Bush. Perhaps a lot like the flu. If Bush is Lucky his flu inspired fainting spell in t Okyo will not make his health a major Campaign Issue. I be w ill be less Lucky As opponents and Public assess what he has been doing and his seeming reluctance to lace the real problems the Athens Ohio messenger the selection of Barbara Franklin to be see retard of Commerce May be one of the Wiser moves president Bush has made in recent months a not because i Ranklin is a woman. Inn because she s so Well qualified for the Job. Stories describing her As a Republican Lund Iuis i and Campaign contributor May be accurate but they give the misleading impression that Prankl is just another political appointee. Shell have a Strong voice m Trade policy and could be influential in White House proposals to gel the Economy mov ing Sun Herald Gulfport miss. Some Catfish Farmers want the government to buy up about a million pounds of surplus Catfish because the current wholesale Price for Catfish is too Low sorry. Charlie but unless the department of agriculture has a real need for a million pounds of Catfish and the Price is right we recommend that lax Money not be used to create a Lasc Market in yet another Industry. Los Angeles times Russia and Nice shoring states of the lot liter soviet Union Are desperately Short of Tiara currency but Thuv Are awash in surplus military weaponry a lot of which its now Clear is 11mlino its Auoad i of priority must go to tightening controls of weapons related nuclear daily Gazette Schenectady . I filling the persian in if wat. Of run lists Vevi e by my to gel to the front. In the yugoslav inn Civ ii Vav or. They in a veg because they Are there. So fat. Is reporters have been killed two others Are presumed dead in the seven month old Roii flip it War correspondents Aren t necessarily concerned with High minded journalistic principles some of the Best ones Are drawn to the work because they find the danger exciting. But at the same time they Are serving the cause of truth. Ami in Many cases they Are giving their lives for if. They deserve our recognition and Boston Herald under the Guise of Federal research colleges have been ripping off the taxpayers by hundreds of millions a Vear. T his blatant violation of the Public Trust Calls Fot stringent countermeasures. A number of institutions of higher learning have agreed to repay questionable charges. Stanford i Hii varsity has repaid $ 1.4 million Anil withdraw n its claims for another $910. Federal officials should go further and explore the possibilities of bringing criminal charges against those responsible Lor the More egregious scams. Perhaps the Best deterrence to such conduct is the knowledge on the part of administrators that there Are serious risks involved in raids on the a Tribune major utilities around the i filled Stales have begun to ask lot substantial new rate increases on grounds that w ill cause most Amei lean Tonsi mers to blow their uses. I lie companies Are asking Lor rate encases now to pay Lor future health benefits they have promised to Leturc and some current a Etudes. Consumers would Cuve no Benalil lion Pic Putint the utilities health care obligations i Al them keep More of their Money while they cantle Kansas City to Star does the Irish Republican aim Liula want w a i it it wants for the British to leave Northern 11 Al a 1111. And Ireland to be a United nation once again ii Sii. Its terrorist lactic of detonating bombs in the midst of population can Luis of anywhere at All. Ini that Mallei is the most move in could i Ali bomb the Ira plants whether in England or in nor the i n Ireland sends but Isle units deeper into Lush soil san Francisco examiner ii the 11111 Blue line is All that i Olels society lion the Uncle out there what do we do when cops become criminals since police Aie sworn to uphold the Law. The Elfeel is doubly Pel Mucious w Hen they break it Ops who break the Law should t be cops i Hen actions v lol ulc their oath damage Public is Eccl Ini the Law and Imit i lieu Lelli it Wol i it. C i s
