European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 22, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 15what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts arc 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 Tenn Banner the decision in the House under Public pressure to release the names of All members who wrote bad checks was the proper one. Obviously some members whose accounts were overdrawn Only a times and by Only Small amounts will not enjoy being listed with those who routinely wrote bad checks on the House Bank As an easy Way to obtain instant no interest Loans. But the american people Are not stupid. They will be Able to distinguish Between those who made honest mistakes or got caught in a Small temporary financial Pinch and those who abused a perk. Detroit free press Over the next weeks revelations about individual House members who bounced checks will begin to sort themselves out we would Hope. Those who have never abused the indulgent overdraft system May find As some members have complained that they Are tarred with the same Brush but they ultimately can get the Story out. The banking scandal is one manifestation of an institutional problem that is hurting Congress and tending to Embarrass even those who should not be tarred. Congress As a whole and the House in particular need to find ways to address in a broader context the feeling that the institution is often self indulgent and Sun Herald Biloxi Gulfport miss. It has happened in Washington. Officials elected to represent the people sometimes meet and talk to one another and to lobbyists so much that they lose touch with the folks they should be serving. It happened with members of the . House Many of whom believed it was Normal to Kite checks in their special Bank. Their moral compasses went Askew. Everyone else did it. Constituents did no to know about it so Why worry. As a group the recalcitrant House members have added to the Public perception that too Many elected officials Are insensitive to standards of right and wrong Are misguided about their own importance and Are disdainful of their responsibility for their own Jose Calif Mercury news the thrust of the Senate and the House Bills is to Ive Middle income taxpayers some Relief in return for higher taxes on the Rich. That is the sticking Point for president Bush who has vowed to veto an increase in income taxes even though that Means losing a Long sought reduction in the capital gains tax approved to different forms by the House and the Senate. Since we oppose lowering the capital gains tax and Are unconvinced that the tax Relief Lor Middle income families will do much for them or the Economy this standoff is just Huntington . A recent Abc Washington Post poll found a 52 percent majority opposing a $400 annual income tax Cut for most americans. Yes All of us would like to pay less in taxes. But we suspect a great Many americans Are far More worried about their jobs a about being Laid off a than about their taxes. If that is indeed the Case then Congress would be Well advised to spend less time tinkering with taxes and More time working to get the National Economy Back on columbian Vancouver Wash. The Bush administration asked Congress to require Telephone companies to build bugs into modern telecommunications technology so that the Fri and police can eavesdrop on criminals. It is one thing to wire a Bug to a line after receiving approval from a magistrate who has been assured of the Legal grounds for the intrusion. It is quite another to prepare the whole system so that anyone can be listened to. Savannah a morning news the surprisingly Strong primary run of Patrick Buchanan has served a useful purpose for the Republican party and was a 1,000-Volt Jolt of reality for president Bush. But it is getting time to face facts. The longer Buchanan fights a losing cause the less he looks like a spoiler and the More he looks like someone who is just spoiled. That is a Knock he does no to deserve and he want to bring it Down on dispatch Lexington . Richard Nixon is right. The former president who has tried to become americans elder foreign policy statesman with a series of books and papers released in recent years says . Assistance to Boris n. Yeltsin a government in Russia has been a a pathetically inadequate although the question itself was unthinkable even a couple of years ago there is a growing consensus that the United states must do More to help democracy survive in Russia. This is a historic moment. If we miss the Chance to help democracy to flourish in the former soviet Union that splintered nation May fall Back into the hands of its right Wing military. And that scenario might mean an unstable and dangerous government in control of a vast Stock of nuclear and conventional Providence . Journal bulletin whoever decided to leak the draft of a classified Pentagon report assessing americans posture in the Post cold War world must have known what would follow longtime opponents of . Military policy have taken the most exaggerated View possible of the documents contents Ana then proceeded to pummel the report for being militaristic arrogant and wrongheaded. Why the fuss Well some of the criticism is valid. For instance while the report acknowledges that we cannot serve As the world s policeman it does not Pav sufficient attention to potential opportunities to work through the United nations. Another example some of the reports comments about our status As the worlds no. 1 Power could be viewed As patronizing by major Allied Columbus Ohio dispatch the defense department ought to rethink its reluctance to buy from Russia highly advanced space related technology that would include a nuclear reactor that could Power spacecraft. The . Diffidence in this matter appears to Stem from a misguided belief that purchasing any space baubles might work to keep the russian defense apparatus alive and thus would be a threat somewhere Down the line. At Bottom the United states needs to conduct a thorough review and develop a Clear headed policy dealing with the former soviet Washington Post Paul Tsongas suspended his Campaign for the democratic presidential nomination with the same dignity with which he conducted it. To grasp the contribution that he made you have to try to imagine How the Campaign might have proceeded to this Point without him. He helped to legitimize a race that Early on was an object of contempt that complaint is much less frequently heard now. The democrats have been on the defensive now for three presidential elections. They have an Opportunity to reassert themselves and redefine the terms of National debate. Tsongas made his own contribution to providing the party that Opportunity. Bill Clinton is clearly qualified to carry it Angeles times South african president . De a Jerk gambled big and won big. While the world held its breath nearly seven out of 10 Whites approved in a controversial referendum his continued Reform. The landslide Victory sounded a death Knell for apartheid. De Klerks successful referendum must be the last vote restricted to Whites in South Africa. There must be no More major decisions decided by the minority. As the president said a that chapter has been the next chapter must Lead to Equality for All South Long Island . President . De Klerks stunning margin of Victory in the Whites Only referendum on South africans future should put two right Wing illusions More than 6 feet under. His mandate to negotiate Power sharing with the nations Black majority will Bury the rights Hopes of rebuilding various pillars of apartheid. And it should inter the right wings loony Fallback position its dream a Nightmare really a a of establishing a Whites Only state. With tuesdays referendum a one Hopes it was the last Whites Only vote a South africans White minority seems readier than Ever to help give apartheid a decent evening Sun Baltimore for decades soviet citizens used to joke about their country a main newspaper that there was no truth in pravda a the truth a. According to the Leninist relativity theory they were right. Vladimir i. Lenin the founder of the soviet stat used to argue that constant truth did not exist it changed according to circumstances. By naming the party s newspaper pravda russian speakers immediately knew that its truth too was changeable for there is another russian word Istina which signifies eternal truth. After 80 years As a newspaper read and second guessed by the world pravda suspended publication last week. Its old slogan a a workers of the world unite a a was on that last front Page. Yes the workers had United to throw the rascals out
