European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday novembers 1992what 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 by the associated i Ress and United press  Philadelphia Dally news Bill Clinton is remarkably Quick and Bright totally and thoroughly prepared on virtually any subject. He can reach out to people in the Way Only the most gifted politicians can. He knows the issues facing us involve Complex convoluted difficult problems like moving from a War based Economy to one that makes usef til things fixing a bad but expensive health system and changing the Way we think about ourselves. More important he has the character determination and flexibility to accomplish what he  Washington Post first there were All the primaries he could t win. Then Wlms he began winning them there was the nomination he nonetheless could t get because the party was uneasy about him and he had self evidently a fatal a a electability problem. The truth is that Bill Clinton deserves congratulation not just for prevailing in the contest but for having waged a Strong smart and civil Campaign if there is one thing on which everyone can agree it is that having the Campaign Over is a mercy Tho a Vonlang Sun Baltimore to make sure he would remember the overriding Issue in the presidential Campaign a Bill Clinton strategist posted the following note on his office Wall a the Economy stupid a after Clinton a convincing Victory one or the president elects Baltimore supporters said he was thinking of posting another note to measure the new administration s performance. It would contain this pledge Clinton made to Ebony Magazine a creating High wage jobs will be my top priority. I have proposed a National economic strategy Tor America that will invest More than $50 billion annually Over the next four years to put America Back to  after 12 years of Republican administrations under which the Federal government shifted and weakened Many Long time commitments to localities few constituencies View the forthcoming Clinton administration with greater expectations than the nation s cities hard Luck cities Are intrinsically intertwined with better off suburbs in the fabric that is America. Addressing acute Urban problems should be one of the Clinton teams urgent  Long Island . In this craziest of political years american voters exhibited the schizophrenia that has marked so much of our political history they voted for change and stability at once. The balance of Power in Washington will shift As the democrats take the White House both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will be controlled by the same party. This should break the policy stalemate that has embittered both voters and thoughtful lawmakers during president Bush a tenure. For All the contradictions there is a single Strain running through the election Day tallies. Ross Perot a Strong showing in the presidential race and term limit mania a As Well As changes in Congress a should serve As a warning for those returning to their beloved perches the Public wants action not  Antolos Olmos the big news in this weeks election was change and voters done to have to look to the White House to find it. Capitol Hill is taking on quite a few profound changes itself a and the Senate and the House will never again be the same. The Senate Long americans most powerful homogeneous and exclusive club is getting several new members women and minorities a who will help the upper legislative chamber look a bit More like the people it represents. There Are some who bemoan the trend toward identifying americans by sex race ethnicity a the hyphenated american. There is something to the concern that americans Are looking too closely at their differences and too Little at their commonalities. But As More women and minorities move into the Halls of commentary i Power we can look Forward to the Day when the elections of women african americans latinos asian americans Are so common that they no longer Merit  Sacramento Calif Bee after five years of study and hearings the bipartisan . Commission on agricultural workers concludes that immigration Reform has failed in two of its major goals stemming the flow of illegal immigration and improving the lot of immigrant farm workers without changes in the Law and More vigorous enforcement of immigration restrictions the commissioners conclude a farm worker households of the 1990s will Likely experience increasing Levels of poverty and economic  that would be  Register Herald by Cilcy . Since the Early 1970s, America has circled its wagons on the Issue of Lead and How it can affect children. But a new study raises questions As to whether the wagons Are circled tightly enough the push two decades ago saw the emphasis shift to unleaded gasoline Banning of Lead in paint and the removal or old Lead based paint from houses. Even so flaking Lead based paint and Lead water pipes can still result in exposure. American studies have reached conclusions similar to the new study from Australia about How exposure to Low Levels of Lead during infancy can affect children later in life. Although the Lead contamination amounts May seem relatively minuscule their potential for seriously affecting our children Are quite real and the Call for prevention should be  Greenville . News the apparent Victory of disposables in the great diaper War reflects a human trait that must be maddening to those who Hope to control others behaviour. People wont do something that makes no sense to them even when the advertised reason for doing it could be viewed As a Good one. And it made no sense for families with babies to give up the convenience of disposable diapers despite the assault on disposables by zealous environmentalists who tried to make the throwaways a Symbol for All that a wrong with the Way americans treat the a Page 15 environment. Disposable diapers you see end up in sanitary landfills and that a bad even though that a what landfills Are for the strident advocates of cloth diapers however were willing to seriously inconvenience millions of mothers because disposables As mentioned end up in landfills and because a Here a another heinous offence a they Are made from paper which is made from Trees and they also contain plastics. In this argument the marginally Adverse environmental Impact of cloth diapers is ignored. This zealotry was aimed at controlling behaviour. Instead it has resulted in scrutiny of the claims made in its behalf. And As often happens in such cases Good sense apparently has  by ill Ogham Wash Tarald what were seven men and five women on the first grand jury in Austin Texas possibly thinking when they failed to indict the suspect in this rape Case the 27-year-old Man is accused of breaking into a woman a Home brandishing a knife and attempting to rape her. The woman a lawyer said his client fled to a bathroom. The Man broke the door Down. They struggled. Fearing aids the woman asked the Man to use a condom. Auer the rape she finally escaped fled the House naked and summoned help from a neighbors House. After the hearing one person on the grand jury agreed to an interview and said the woman might have implied consent to sex because she asked the Man to Wear a condom. Consent?.tht virginian Pilot the lad Gar Star Norfolk a. Sen. John Mccain Republican of Arizona for six years a prisoner of War in Vietnam has it right self interest not goodness of heart motivated Vietnam to agree recently to release 4,800 photographs and All flies in its Possession that might Tell americans what happened to Many of the 2,265 still unaccounted for . Military personnel who disappeared during the Vietnam War. Mccain says Hanoi seeks reconciliation with the United states because a the vietnamese Are desperate for economic assistance and a also concerned about the  Vietnam and China have been enemies for centuries and China attacked Vietnam in 1979. Having the United states in Hanoi a Corner would be helpful All around