European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 6. 1992 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15the Post and courier Charleston  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 by the associated press and United press  Sun Baltimore the United states can push its standing As the worlds sole superpower Only so far. Its cuban democracy act of 1992 tries to Force the . Embargo of Cuba on other countries that wont have it the United nations general Assembly Resolution calling on nations to spurn such legislation was a foreseeable rebuke Delaware county daily times Chester a. Come on senator Packwood. Lets Stop the tap dance. If senator Packwood is an alcoholic he indeed should seek treatment. But what it sounds like he and his colleagues need even More is intense instruction on the subject of sexual  Boston Globe supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas seems to be stepping Back a bit from his previous hard line against abortion rights. Perhaps the reason lies far beyond the court a stretching from the vied Walls of Yale to the White House soon to be occupied by gov. Bill Clinton. Clinton and Thomas were schoolmates at Yale Law school Clinton graduating in 1973 and Thomas with the class of 1974.detroit free press if the South african government and the african National Congress doubted the urgency of their efforts to move in timely fashion to a new multiracial democracy surely the weekend raid on a King Williams town country club has jolted any such complacency in the Long difficult process of ending apartheid South african president . De Klerk has played a role that looks More and More like the part played by Mikhail Gorbachev in the dismantling of the soviet Union. He is Riding the Tiger with All the insecurities that go with such an exercise Star Tribune newspaper off the twin cities Minneapolis poor Queen Elizabeth. If heightened criticism of the British monarchy has made 1992 a a horrible year for her imagine How George Iii must have Felt about 1776. Still the Brouhaha Over who should foot the Bill for repairing fire damaged Windsor Castle suggests that the Royal family a Way of life will change. Last months disaster at the Queens favorite weekend Retreat caught her and her Dis arrayed household at a particularly vulnerable time the Columbus Ohio dispatch decades ago it was fashionable to chide an overreaction to a Given situation with the Tongue in Cheek admonishment a a done to make a Federal Case out of  today that might be Good advice for Congress. Lawmakers it seems take great Pride in making Federal crimes out of offences that once were the exclusive province of state courts. The Indianapolis news president George Bush May leave office with one last loud Hurrah. If All goes Well his administration will claim an International Trade Victory by finalizing a pact that has taken negotiators six Long years to write. If the Bush administration can pull off a settlement before the years end it will earn itself a Well deserved prominent chapter in the history books. The Augusta a chronicle since the nov. 3 election nearly All the economic news has been Good. Too late to help president Bush but its hard not to wonder what a might have been if the election had been held a month or six weeks later. President Bush has reason to feel vindicated. But All the outgoing president Bush can do now is Hope a along with All americans a that Bill Clinton wont do anything to foul up the a Bush  Orange county Register Santa Ana Calif. Every revolution faces a test. Those opposing the revolution gather their forces to try to reimpose the old oppression. The revolutionaries must stand firm. Russian president Boris Yeltsin faces that test today or. Yeltsin himself has perpetuated problems by diluting the revolutions assault on socialism. His worst mistake has been to allow the old congressmen to continue in Power. 0the Dallas morning nows hundreds of thousands of tons of food Are being sent to famine stricken Somalia yet nearly a thousand people continue to die each Day of starvation. It is a needless tragedy. The Bush administration rightly has stepped up to the moral Challenge of making sure the International Relief Aid gets to Somalia a starving  press Newport news Hampton a. The United states had achieved another no. 1 ranking in the world but this is not one to brag about. A recent report by the National research Council indicates the United states leads industrialized nations in murders sexual assaults and other violent attacks. This country according to the Council is More violent than other societies. Past generations lost their Young men to foreign wars. Now the War is being fought on neighbourhood streets. Another generation is being lost. Herald dispatch Huntington . Runaway health care costs and health insurance issues a not wages a now Are the no. 1 cause of labor disputes in this country. And Little wonder. Adjusted for inflation most workers today earn less than they did a decade ago. Moreover health care costs have increased at a rate that far outpaced the Overall Cost of living. Earlier this year investigators found that the . Department of agriculture had paid Farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars not to grow surplus crops on land leased from the government. A new investigation regarding support payments has uncovered a similarly absurd and equally indefensible waste of Federal tax dollars by the us a. The investigation suggests tens of millions May have been wasted by the Agency a soil conservation service which has authorized payments to ensure soil conservation to Farmers who have done Little toward that end. As a result the Agency a mandated conservation goals Are being subverted and As one observer noted the Agency is effectively subsidizing erosion the Providence . Journal the Bush administration says it is abandoning efforts to relax Federal regulations covering wetlands. It will leave such decisions to the incoming Clinton administration which itself will probably wait for a National Academy of sciences study before making any changes. It is reasonable and proper to await such a study. The times recorder Zanesville Ohio Senate minority Leader Robert Dole has called for an investigation of the special prosecutor in the Iran Contra affair and says president Bush should consider pardoning All defendants in the controversy. Doles Call for an investigation May have some Merit but his suggestion of pardons is out of line. It would result in a Black Mark on the last Days of the Bush administration the Clarion Ledger Jackson miss. For those who like to keep tabs on nightmares from the bungling . Bureaucracy Here a a beaut remember Terry Anderson the Man kept hostage by terrorists Well Anderson is writing a Book about his experiences. He needed a Little background about his captors so he wrote the . Government to Send him what they had. Eight different Federal agencies have now denied Anderson Access to information about those who held him captive. They said he will have to obtain the written consent of his captors before that information can be released. That a our government in action poor Anderson now he a being held hostage by the Federal bureaucracy