European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 23, 1992 the stars and stripes 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 Clarion Ledger Jackson miss. The Earth a Ozone layer May seem a lofty topic but it is really Down to Earth. The fear is that a Hole in the Ozone layer could develop by the end of the Winter exposing populated areas to the harmful rays. Where is the expected Hole not somewhere in Remote Antarctica but in the Northern hemisphere a Home to America Asia and Europe. The Bush administration should Back More control of chemicals that destroy Ozone before it is too late. Already scientists fear it May take decades before any reversal can begin to take place even with immediate Detroit news the National aeronautics and space administration sent a couple of pilots High into the sky a few weeks ago to Check for chemicals that might be gobbling up the Ozone layer a and to and behold they came Back with readings that spell doom for North America. Or so you might think from Reading nasal a breathless press release. The pity is that the wizards of of one and their ilk have cried Wolf so often that we wont know a real environmental crisis when it hits Washington Post Paul Tsongas is Pinch me pleased Bill Clinton is still very much alive and Pat Buchanan is ebullient a that is the first take out of new Hampshire. We done to know what proportion of the Bush Buchanan result was attributed to ideology but the fact is that new Hampshire did give considerable Comfort to the More conservative democrats. This needs to be acknowledged not pretended away by the disappointed. The primaries Are just starting the outcomes Are not known. But our guess is that a backstage Man Euver by democratic big shots to a Send in an agreed upon replacement for the five Fellows now contending will new York there is no doubt about it George Bush deserved a Swift kick in the pants. And that is just what new Hampshire a voters gave him tuesday. The message from new Hampshire voters to Bush is that he has abdicated his responsibility he has allowed the nation to Drift into recession without seeming to care and without any plans to do something about it. Bush can gloat All he wants about How he kicked Saddam Hussein but the voters done to give a Damn. It is yesterdays news. Bush is a president in Dally news entire cultures have produced fewer myths than the Vietnam War has. Now we Are watching a presidential candidate suffer because people Are still insisting Vietnam was the moral equivalent of world War ii with people lining up at recruiting stations to get a Chance to fight the Viet Cong. Have we been sniffing a National forgetfulness Gas. Pretending Vietnam was a Noble thing that it Wasny to denies history denies the facts and denies the experience or a generation of . American news you know How it is when realization dawns like Thunder and you crack yourself on the forehead with a shot a yeah the Grace under pressure demonstrated by Hillary Clinton in response to allegations against her husband Bill Clinton prompted that reaction. It recalls the words of Abigail Adams to her husband John a remember the ladies a and gives them new meaning As this country continues its search for leaders. Chicago Tribune americans whose attention has Long since shifted from the Anita Hill Clarence Thomas Brouhaha. May have forgotten How Hills allegations first came to Public attention in reports that originated with the new York newspaper new Day and National Public radio. But those news reports were based on leaked information about accusations that had been made to Fri and Senate investigators and they were angrily denounced by Thomas supporters in the Senate. Now a special counsel appointed by the Senate is trying to uncover the source of the leak. It May be the Senate a task in some cases to conceal the truth but it is the Media a task to report it. If the Senate can to keep itself from leaking it expect journalists to plug the neb world Herald some people Are too Quick to look the other Way when a presidential candidate is accused of behaviour that reflects a character flaw. Such thinking is the unfortunate product of a society that has become too tolerant of private and Public Albuquerque . Tribune the latest rage in education is the report How schools shortchange girls done by Wellesley College with a Grant from the american association of University women. And rightly so the Bottom line As we see it is that girls still Arentt being taken seriously enough in Many ways in Public schools. And then people wonder Why they Are not taken seriously after Denver Post the Lead prosecutor in the Mike Tyson rape trial said after the famed Boxer was convicted that nobody should exaggerate the importance of the verdict. This verdict suggests that no matter How big and intimidating Thev the assailants Are they can no longer assume their victims will automatically stay in their Votmos do scotch terrorists hacked to death three sleeping israeli soldiers. The world of opinion managed to stifle a Yawn. The next Day an israeli helicopter attack killed Abbas Muslawi the Leader of the pro iranian terror group Hezbollah. Reaction was immediate. Israel had imperilled the so called peace process. The names and the dates change but one thing in the Middle East remains the same the double Standard for Atlanta a lot of attention is being focused on whether the killing of Hezbollah Leader Sheik Abbas Muslawi by israeli forces might Hurt the Middle East peace talks. It is a Good question but there is another Worth asking whether crippling Hezbollah might do something to help peace itself. If the parties truly want peace then the latest round of death and destruction should Only serve to urge them to greater so Linel Jeffrey l. Dahmer has been found sane. Never again need we worry about him he will be in prison. Now it is up to the City and its residents to quickly and mercifully put Jeffrey Dahmer behind them a never forgetting his cruelty remembering his victims a and to look to the Dally news whatever else you do never use the word a a selfish in front of a Wisconsin jury. When they get confused that Sall they remember. If Zombie making mass murder cannibalism and All the rest weren to Good enough for a successful insanity plea lets Hope we never see someone who docs Seattle times debate resumes in the . Senate on a sweeping package of National Energy legislation. Lurking in inc background is a tiresome and troublesome proposal to open the Arctic National wildlife Refuge to Oil drilling. Even by Industry and government estimates the Refuge May actually contain precious Little Oil. No Good reason currently exists to deface this special area in the name of a geological Sacramento Baa the standoff Between iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the outside world is becoming More tense As each Side tests the others Mettle a contest in which the Bush administration is now raising the stakes albeit so far Only slightly. There must be no replay of last years tragedy in which iraqi kurd and shiites were slaughtered and driven from their Homes by iraqi forces after president Bush called on iraqis to overthrow Saddam a regime then offered no help when they tried. The administrations cautious approach now suggests that that lesson has been Kansas City to Star administration officials recently announced a a a Covert plan that is supposed to put More pressure on Saddam Hussein. But the american Covert action plan turns out to be propaganda broadcasts and the Ever popular increased contacts with opposition maybe there is More to the plan than this but these Steps alone sound pretty Dago Union Tribune the end of the cold War has opened up a historic Opportunity for the United nations to fulfil the sweeping Mission envisioned by its founders in 1945. With a new Era of cooperation Between Washington and Moscow the United nations at last can overcome the political paralysis that for decades hampered its ability to safeguard global peace. Better management of the world body a limited resources coupled with a restructuring of the Security Council to reflect the realities of the Post cold War period can enable the United nations to become far More effective in preserving global peace
