European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 17, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 15 pick Ide group 1hk&  Pesir yep b0sin6s8es Asp  v 1h0vsanp5 of jobs Harp one in t it 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  Angelos times what is president Bush really going to do in response to the los Angeles riots were is he going to boldly Lead this nation is he going to forcefully convince the America that knows no hunger no inequity and no unrest that it is in its interest to help the other America. The president must make the Case to the american people for rebuilding the cities. He must Lead. Chicago Tribune he went. He saw. He was conquered. President Bush went to los Angeles on May 7, saw the destruction and Felt the despair of the people in that City a riot devastated areas and was conquered by the conviction that a government has an absolute responsibility to solve these  has not yet Laid out a full menu of Urban policy proposals. But he gives evidence that he recognizes the Gravity and dimensions of the problem that must be addressed. That is Progress. Maybe some Good can yet be wrung from los Angeles  Tribune Minneapolis president Bush went to los Angeles saying America should a try something different in dealing with americans Urban crisis. Yes or. President try something different. Maybe More social services Are not the answer As you assert although president Lyndon Johnson a War on poverty nearly halved real poverty rates. And you re right that a growing Economy is an answer but not All of it. The Urban poor in los Angeles and Here in the twin cities do not have a stake in the system. Programs that help them get such a stake Are Worth trying nowadays Long Island the smoke has cleared and the nation can now see without difficulty the texture of president Bush a leadership in the aftermath of the los Angeles riots. Its All silk and Little substance. He. Also has returned to the tried and True Republican mantra of a Law and order a code words meant to soothe a fearful White Community. Likewise the presidents Call for a return to a family values a while Welcome among the majority of Blacks is at Bottom an Appeal to White  Kansas City to. Star ruling republicans have stooped Low to blame the los Angeles riots on the social programs of a More honorable generation. And worse to blame them on a dead president. What have our living ones been doing for More than 20 years Augusta a Herald despite the partisan blame games being played in the Wake of the los Angeles riots a National consensus of sorts is emerging about developing programs to improve living conditions in the inner cities. This makes sense. The Federal government is helping Eastern Europe and the former soviet Union develop democracy and free Enterprise. We should do no less for our own Urban centers. They too have been just As dependent on a and in Many ways enslaved by a the welfare state As the people who lived under socialist tyranny for four decade thu Sun Baltimore most economists Are convinced that a recovery is under Way. The problem for president Bush will be How Many voters agree or More specifically How Many Are confident about their own and their nations future. Signs of a . Decline in International competitiveness were abundant Long before the recent recession began. Now concerns about the cohesiveness of american society As a result of the los Angeles riots Are Likely to compound disappointment about the slow Pace of the current uptick. The Washington Post in the surge of self determination that dissolved the soviet Union three new nuclear states were inadvertently created on top of the already nuclear Russia. The key to the nuclear disarmament of these accidental nuclear Powers remains their relationship with Russia. Russia bears the major continuing responsibility for putting their legitimate anxieties to . Louis Post dispatch the self proclaimed environmental president Isnit turning out to be one. Instead president Bush is nearly the opposite. Having Given his vice president a major say in whether to approve environmental regulations through his chairmanship of the competitive Council the president has created a weapon to fight environmental Progress. And it is succeeding the Horald Sun Durham . President Bush could have used his foreign policy savvy. To provide leadership on an urgent environmental problem a global warming. Sadly the administration seems to have done its Best to Render meaningless a . Treaty on global warming. The White House has thus transformed a modest reasonable proposal with measurable goals into one that is nebulous at Best and gutless at worst. Sun Santinac fort Lauderdale Fla. James Madison had a great idea nearly 203 years ago. Though Madison is Long gone his idea is still As Good today As it was then. Not everything gets Dusty with age. More than two centuries after Madison first proposed a constitutional amendment in 1789 that would prohibit Congress from boosting its pay in midterm 38 states have endorsed the proposal. On thursday Michigan became the latest state to do so. Those forefathers Are looking better All the  Newt Are Anvilla . James Madison has reached across two centuries and slapped Congress. Michigan has become the 38th and decisive state to ratify a constitutional amendment that limits Congress ability to raise members pay. Most americans probably weren to aware of the pending amendment. No wonder. Madison who helped write the Constitution proposed it in 1789. Nothing seems to get settled in Washington however. So there a a dispute on whether Tot much commentary time has elapsed for the amendment to be valid. The first Congress set no deadline for ratification the Constitution says nothing about deadlines. It might be a bad idea to leave the matter up to  Philadelphia inquirer in Missouri a heartland from the podium where Winston Churchill gave his galvanizing a Iron curtain speech in 1946, Mikhail Gorbachev reminded America. That history Hasni tended with the cold wars demise. Indeed he said new tensions Are rising fed by an untenable disparity Between Rich and poor nations conflict looms now not Between East and West but North and South. It is a speech that president Bush should have  Dally Bazatta Schana Coady . Watching Mikhail s. Gorbachev on his first visit to the United states As a private citizen is like viewing the history of our times through a Kaleidoscope. A communist turned mendicant Gorbachev personifies the Radical changes that have swept our world. Tha Columbus Ohio dispatch both in government and the private sector there is concern that this nations welfare system is for All its expense not doing the Job. The current system is broken there is no question about that. Shreveport la journal done to blame . Workers for America s decline in competitiveness in the worlds economic markets. In Short its time to Stop blaming american workers for the nations economic woes. They Are the worlds most productive workers. If there is a problem competing with Japan and other economic giants we must look to the top of the corporate Hierarchy. It is Here that bloated salaries incentives and Perks seem More important than top  naw York Timas the democratic Congress finally heeding Public anger passed a solid Campaign finance Reform package and sent it to the presidents desk. It Wasny to perfect a merely a giant leap in the right direction. So How did president Bush the self proclaimed government reformer respond he raised his veto pen and killed the Bill for the thinnest most cynical of reasons. And he did so on the weekend while Public attention was still fastened on los Angeles. The Bill would have created a cleaner More competitive system of Public financing for congressional races. Bush dismissed the Reform Bill As a a taxpayer financed incumbent Protection  that ignores the letter he received from 32 current and former Republican congressional challengers who rightly lauded the Reform As a necessary to level the playing