European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 7, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 15commentarywhat 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 International. Nowadays Long Island . One of the More memorable lines of Ronald Reagan a political career was his retort to Jimmy Carter during a 1980 presidential Campaign debate a there you go  would that Reagan make a Brief comeback a and use that line on vice president Dan Quayle. For Quayle is at it again this time with a silly irrelevant Jab linking those who criticized his attack on tvs fictional Murphy Brown with a cultural elite he said also mocks the military. A these critics have derided your patriotism and your Pride a Quayle told cadets at the air Force Academy commencement. Get with it Dan military bashing went out with tie dyed to shirts and peace symbols. Remember How Hollywood gushed Over the persian Gulf Victory and besides today a military is All Volunteer a with a High proportion of women and yes single mothers. Its far More Likely that Murphy Brown fans Are wearing fatigues than love  Charleston . Gazette vice president Dan Quayle has made himself a Champion of Quot family values by attacking a to sitcom that features unwed motherhood. We done to know How to reverse societal trends. But clamouring for family values wont help if it leads Only to pressure for conformity and putting up a false  Angeles times a British army Ballad of world War i had it that a old soldiers never die they just fade  with some help from the Bush administration a Star wars a the failed attempt to build a nuclear missile defense a stubbornly refuses to do either. It is time Congress gave the strategic defense initiative a proper push Down the Road toward oblivion before it gobbles up any More than the $29 billion it has already consumed leaving Little to show for the Money. The virginian Pilot Norfolk a. The in defensibility of the Pentagon a Blanket ban on homosexuals becomes clearer and clearer As military personnel with Superior performance records acknowledge their minority sexual orientation a and Are honorable discharged. The Pentagon should abandon its position before Congress overturns it. Judge military performance and conduct. Boot those who done to measure up. Keep and promote the rest male or female Black or White heterosexual or homosexual. That a the american  Baltimore Sun almost everywhere americans pause to talk politics these Days the focus is on the Texas billionaire who is set to launch an Independent bid for the presidency unlike any in american history. Whatever the outcome of Ross Perot scrap shoot it has jolted the country from its feeling that the political game is fixed by rules that cannot be changed and that there is precious Little the Ordinary citizen can do about it. On the contrary this year citizens can vote not just for one of three candidates but for change that for better or worse could be  Providence . Sunday journal total Federal Aid in the form of Loans Grants and other assistance May Well approach $1 billion for los Angeles before the White House and Congress Are finished responding to the riots there. Any massive assistance package that does no to include incentives to improve private conduct is doomed to ultimate failure. Tribuna Ravior Groo Tburg a. A . District court in Washington has been asked to restrict the franking privileges of members of Congress in the interests of political equity. The court should Rule for the plaintiffs. This is a perversion of an already questionable perk that gives an officeholder undue advantage Over a challenger a and at your expenses. Petersburg Fla times the reasons for supporting Federal financing of research using fetal tissue Are compelling. By placing his opposition to abortion in the Way of research the president stands by As More Peoples minds become hopelessly tangled and their bodies ravaged by disease. He stands by As More families lose loved ones and the Congress that allows his veto stands with  Bloomington ind. For years medical researchers have known that tissue transplants from aborted fetuses Are useful in dealing with some diseases. But because of its philosophical opposition to abortion and its fear that it could actually encourage abortions to provide such tissues the Reagan administration banned Federal funding for research on fetal tissue in 1988. As health Secretary Otis r. Bowen enforced the Rule. But now he has said continuation of that policy is wrong. The Issue is Worth  Sun Timos scientists claim they have created a wondrous thing a an out of season Tomato that a tasty. Civilization is measured by such advances. Some folks however Arentt so sure not when the advances Are made possible by genetic engineering. They fear that tinkering with genes is a threat to Public health and safety and that the government should require More stringent tests of genetically altered products. The Flint Mich journal with the Speed and recklessness of an Avalanche momentum is building in Congress for a constitutional amendment to balance the Federal budget. On the surface the idea seems sound. But done to be fooled. It is Little More than a Public relations ploy by a desperate and frightened Congress pandering to a Public fed up with inaction irresponsibility and scandal. The Fresno Calif boo retailing has been changed by the growth of National mail order companies. Offering convenience is a fair competitive practice. But Many mail order companies also enjoy an unfair advantage they Don t collect the sales taxes that retail stores must charge their customers. The .,supreme court has now removed the constitutional bar to Congress authorizing collection of state sales tax on the mail order business and in effect invited Congress to act. Congress should authorize states to collect sales tax on mail order sales and soon. Thu daily Qai Atta Schana Coady . With voter turnout nationwide growing More dismal with each passing election its vital that the government make More of an Effort to get the masses involved. Registering is a Start and a Bill passed by the Senate. Would help considerably toward this end. The Bill is known As a motor voter a because it would require the automatic registration of anyone who is eligible and applying for a Drivers License welfare unemployment disability or other government Benefit. With an estimated 65 million a one third of All eligible americans a unregistered at present plenty could be gained by the adoption of such a policy. The news journal Wilmington Del. If trying to follow the murky events in places with names like Bosnia and Herzegovina Slovenia Croatia Macedonia Serbia and Montenegro tempts you to give up in frustration resist it. Take a crash course in the Balkan conflict and urge Congress to begin deliberations on the propriety of . Participation in military action there before our forces Are deployed As they were in saudi Arabia