European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 9, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary hat newspapers a re saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Ross Section of newspapers throughout the United it tates. The editorials Are provided to the stars and it tripes by the associated press and United press Leader Sioux Falls . It is a Good thing americans expect so Little from their elected leaders in Washington d c. They Don t ocl much at least not in terms of responsible leadership. President Bush s state of the Union message contained few proposals of substance and Only superficially acknowledged the single biggest problem facing the Federal government a budget dripping in red Ink. A candidate Bush and members of Congress ought to forget about the nov. 3 election and strive to get the nation on sound financial footing. Voters should i demand Kansas City to Star americans want the Quick fix. They want the recession handled like the persian Gulf War. Attack it wipe it out get it Over with and come Home. All the cliches apply because they Are True americans have no patience All politics is local and what have you done for me lately. The trouble is that America can t take a Pill and get Well right away. It will take time through the Long pull. But who can be elected or re elected telling the truth the courage and leadership to do that simply Are not in sight in either san Francisco one word president Bush did no to utter in his state of the Union speech unfortunately for him it is not a forgotten Issue however the . Supreme court will Rule on a Pennsylvania abortion Law this summer. The Case is ticking away like a time bomb for Bush a re election chances. The president could win the Battle on abortion but he sent Home a Defeated Soldier in january by pro Choice Tribune newspaper of the twin cities Minneapolis in its 1973 abortion decision the . Supreme court declared that termination of a pregnancy was a personal decision beyond government reach. Nineteen years later that constitutional principle lies in peril. In agreeing to review a Pennsylvania Law that severely restricts Access to abortion the High court has raised fresh worries that abortion will not Long remain a private matter. The effect of backtracking on abortion rights will be the same pregnant women will lose crucial Power to make a delicate decision for Worth Texas Star Telegram the least that can be said for president Bush a health care initiatives is that the administration has finally weighed in with proposals on one of the primary political issues of 1992. Unfortunately that is also the most that can be . Louis Post dispatch president Bush a head Start initiatives probably would be greeted with a lot More sympathy if they did no to come at election time. In his 1988 presidential Campaign he pledged to expand head Start to reach every eligible 4-year-old child. He added funds but not enough to keep his pledge. Bush still has time to show he actually believes 1 Lead Start has Merit by supporting full funding of this worthy child development Mccomb miss. In . Presidential politics it has t always been accepted practice to publicly scrutinize the private family lives of the candidates. This is a relatively new practice. It reached its Zenith or Nadir As the Case May be four years ago with the withdrawal of then democratic front runner Gary Hart. The Issue has Arisen again with allegations by a Little economic advisers Rock woman whose Story was paid for by the supermarket tabloid newspaper Star that she and Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton had a 12-Ycar affair. Clinton denies the woman a Story and he and his wife Hillary appeared on National television. In an Effort to Lay this Rumor to rest. They were As candid and As Frank in answering questions As they needed to be. We should now get on with the Holyoke mass. Bill Clinton May have hoped to reach directly into hearts with his insistence that a most americans who Are watching tonight know what we re saying get it. A. What most americans got on a recent edition of 60 minutes was a presidential candidate and his wife trying to sidestep a question that of probably is nobody a business but once asked begs an answer did he or did no the engage in extramarital affairs he never did answer the question. Instead Clinton s Appeal to viewers of 60 minutes is a Complex and Tricky Man Euver meant to stir up feelings of a they the Guys Only human a and a leave him alone you press like their presidential candidates to at least feign Dago Tribune who was the most valuable player on super bowl sunday according to lbs tvs 60 minutes it was Arkansas gov. Bill Linton. Political sex scandals have become something of a National pastime so it is no Surprise that the latest one allegedly involving the democratic front runner and a nightclub Singer aired on super bowl sunday. 1 he Only Surprise is that it Wasny to run at halftime. The evening Sun Baltimore the recent pcs debate among the democratic presidential candidates illustrated that these forums can be useful ways of getting beyond the sound bites that often characterize Campaign coverage. Candidates were told to police themselves in terms of time. And surprisingly enough faced with the expectation that they would follow the rules and behave civilly they did debates like this one bring a breath of fresh air to a presidential election process that has grown dangerously stale. The Register her Alt Beckley . Warren commission lawyers say they remain convinced that there was no conspiracy involved in the assassination of president John f. Kennedy in 1963 a including a conspiracy by the Warren commission to cover up any details. To Clear the air the lawyers and other members of the commission a including former president Gerald Ford a Are calling for the release of All documents on the assassination. To continue bottling up the files Only perpetuates and encourages a suspicion that the government has something to hide. Open the files. The Indianapolis Star things Are already bad enough in Detroit with its major Auto manufacturers complaining of foreign Competition unemployment Street , and the prevalence of crack and other drugs. Adding to the City a woes Federal prosecutors have accused a Detroit resident of embezzlement conspiracy and obstruction of Justice stealing front a fund set up to fight drug trafficking and tunnelling it into phony corporations. He also is accused of setting up his mistress in an apartment in the suburbs and persuading her to lie to a grand jury. The accused of course is innocent unless proven guilty. But it is that Detroit a image is not enhanced by the fact he is the chief of police. Northwest Arkansas Timas Fryatt Svall Ark. The bravest souls must Blanch to see . Macy $3.7 billion in debt take chapter 11. For businesses chapter 11 no longer holds a Tomb like finality. Big chains typically use its Protection to hold off creditors reorganize and emerge a few months later in financial trim it must be hoped that a chastened Macy will indeed survive the bankruptcy ordeal because the Chain is part of the nations cultural heritage. But please Macy no More close Calls. Boston Mora Ltd there is unseemly haste to repatriate 10,000 haitian refugees in the custody of the Federal government. It is almost As if we Hope that by forcibly returning them to the troubled Island we can pretend the problem no longer exists. America has the capacity to absorb these refugees or five times their numbers handily. The keel hauling of haitian refugees without even a Semb Tunce of due process belies our claim to be a Haven Lor the oppressed. Have we As a nation forgotten those words at the base of the statue of Liberty a give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe have we forgotten or Are we merely determined to make a mockery of them tha prov Manca journal when Federal auditors were looking Over Stanford University a books last year they spotted a supt Tous looking thread. As they pulled on it they discovered that it led to As much As $300 million in improper Billings for research projects conducted Tor the Federal government during the past decade. Talk about Gold plated contracts compared to Stanford the average Pentagon supplier is a Model of frugality
