European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                What 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  Kansas City to Star when Boris Yeltsin takes to the streets to defend his free Market reforms and to Tell fellow russians that a they Are on a painful Road to a civilized  he is expressing Hopes based on a classic russian dread. Russians Are known for their enduring patience under difficult circumstances. They essentially Are a conservative traditional people slow to accept change and suspicious of it. But through history terrible eruptions have occurred when injustices and pent up frustrations become too much to Bear. Yeltsin knows he is walking on a High wire above the abyss. Assurances that All will be better in a few months from Harvard advisers and planners Are All very Well. But starvation and frostbite Are immediate things. The contest maybe Between patience and unbearable  neb world Herald not everyone plugs into a political Campaign several months before the vote. Some people Don t make up their minds until the final weeks of the Campaign. The premature declaring of winners and losers can distort the process. It s a crazy enough process that determines the Fate of a National presidential candidate based on his showing in a state with less than 1 percent of the nations population. It would be even crazier to act As if the new Hampshire race had ended even before the Campaign had reached full  Baltimore Sun up new Hampshire Way a few weeks before the nations first presidential primary two . Senators Tom Harkin and Bob Kerrey Are beating the Drums for protectionism and one governor Bill Clinton is trying to make the Case for a Liberal world trading system. Political posturing aside we think the difference lies in the nature of their jobs a a difference democratic voters ought to keep in mind when they cast their ballots. As a governor Clinton has sought to open up Market opportunities for Arkansas. Instead of bashing Japan he prefers to talk about the need to upgrade . Education and technology so that the United states can be More competitive. Presidential elections must and should turn on More than one Issue. But if Clinton prevails in new Hampshire and does not succumb later to pressures within his party that would help keep the United states in the forefront of the crusade for a More Liberal world trading system a no matter who wins the november election. The Atlanta journal president Bush no matter his plummeting popularity. I is not a Leader without strength. That he is a Leader willing j to admit mistakes is evidence that he can turn his Strong Points to his advantage. To w in re election however he i must move quickly and forcefully. It is time for Bush to confront Congress the same Way he has handled foreign affairs. Tax and investment policy must be explained on two Levels a those aimed i at ending the recession and those aimed at Long term changes in investments that create jobs. Overshadowing both goals is the largest goal of All a restraining i Federal spending. Bush is in political jeopardy but it can be ended with attention to ideas. Argus Leader Sioux Falls . Now that a year has elapsed the War in the persian Gulf can be seen in a different perspective. The War was hard to justify when it w As going on. It s even More difficult to justify now. It did no to usher in a new Era of peace As Many had hoped. But it May have prevented an even bigger War in the  Sun times Here a a Flash two income families with children have lost ground financially in the h s. Well maybe its a Flash to the government which spent some Money to find out what parents with children already know except for the wealthy end of the scale just keeping up just keeps getting tougher. All of this of course helps make the ease for w hat is becoming an increasingly popular Promise by sunday. January 26, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 13commentary politicians and assorted candidates a tax Breaks for families including but not limited to the expansion of the personal exemption. Its not a bad idea but the idea alone does t explain How the budget Gap that it would create should be filled. Would there be cuts in other programs increases in someone else a taxes that too needs to be on the candidates  Houston Post Seldom in american history has one person aroused As much passion or sparked As much debate As did the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Some people love him for what he did while others hate him and All of his deeds. But no one can deny that King helped change the face of America by furthering its growth into the nation described in the preamble of the United states Constitution. King stated his philosophy with eloquence a injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere. T therefore no american can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial Justice. It is a problem that meets every Man at his front  King worked for Justice. His Holiday celebrates w hat lie hoped America would  free press a prominent politician in Tokyo has shown that japanese officials Are capable of Barking Back at Trade protectionists in the United states. T he snide comments about the allegedly Low qualifications of . Labor by Yoshio Sakurauchi speaker of the lower House of the japanese parliament suggest that the War of words is heating up. It has to Stop before the two countries Embarrass themselves even More. Sakurauchi has a Point when he asserts that the poor academic skills of Many . Industrial workers Handicap our nations Export ambitions. We would argue that management blunders have contributed much More to the big three automakers current predicament than any shortcomings attributable to labor. But education is a problem that we need to continue to  Angeles times Japan has Long accused . Politicians of Japan bashing. Now Tokyo seems to be doing its share of America bashing. A ranking japanese politician has blamed the .-Japan Trade imbalance on what he explicitly and publicly described As Lazy and poorly qualified . Workers. To put the Trade problem on the shoulders of . Workers is ridiculous. Such rhetoric Only exacerbates tense .-Japan relations. Tokyo and Washington need cooler Heads and cooler  Francisco examiner in contrast with the Mushy uncertainty of Trade agreements with Japan which Seldom accomplish what they purport to negotiations with China on commercial relations have a kind of clarity. The United states makes demands sets deadlines and announces possible penalties. Beijing snorts in indignation and threatens count i measures. With the deadline hours away c  comes around. T he Deal is struck and Trade very favourable to China s Economy continues. Another confrontation is brewing Between president Bush s sol to on China policy and congressional efforts led by rep. Nancy Pelosi d-calif., to set Stern conditions including human rights improvements on the Extension of favourable Trade status the deals on patents and shipping suggest it is Worth pushing Beijing hard when the stakes Are important enough. The Miami Herald in trying to understand the holocaust writer i Jie Wiesel observed that jews could not bring themselves to hate the germans nor did germans hate the jews. A it was worse. You can Only hate a human being. To them we were objects a he wrote. T he German people have finally Learned that the Angel of death cannot be forgotten. Fifty years alter the nazis worked out the details on the a final solution Quot of the jewish question at a Villa in Wanna cd. C Germany opened a memorial there. T he wan see memorial in Berlin symbolizes the new Germany s commitment to understanding the nations role in the i holocaust. The Richmond a news Leader after eight years of Legal Maneu vers it finally appears that Joe Doherty May be on ins Way Back to Ireland. Doherty lost his Battle against deportation when the supreme court ruled Jan. I it that he had exhausted his appeals. Doherty s Case has provoked much Contu noisy in this country. The facts seem Clear in la it Alie was a participant in the am Nish murder of a British Soldier he was jailed in a maximum Security prison As a member of the Irish Republican army and accused of terrorism. Doherty escaped and snuck into the United Stales. After convicting him a court Back Home sentenced him to life imprisonment. Of All nations the United states should draw its distinctions carefully Between terrorism and political actions. So Send Joe Doherty . Paul Minn Pioneer press t he extravagant conspiracy theory concocted in Oliver stones provocative film i k is almost certainly fantasy. Stones version of the John Kennedy assassination seems to implicate More americans than it exonerates. The time has come to declassify the Kennedy tiles. Lets be Clear that the archives can to simply be thrown open. Some witnesses testified on condition of anonymity or would be severely injured by the disclosure of raw i by data. Certain methods of intelligence agencies must be kept secret. But alter screening to protect these matters the record on the assassination should be turned Over to the  san Diego Union i he Senate s select committee on Bow Mia affairs has begun its second round of hearings m w Ashington. The first set of hearings last tall produced no bombshells. But those hearings also left no doubt that a Fuller investigation of tills most painful legacy of the Vietnam War is amply Wanna cd