European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 20, 1992 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15what 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 . Paul Minn Pioneer press the anti interventionist Pentagon is virtually surrounded by a closing Circle of opinion that the United Stater must do More to control the Balkans civil wars. Its time for the Pentagon to surrender. The situation now represented by the siege of Sarajevo in Bosnia is intolerable both in humanitarian and geopolitical terms. The a ethnic cleansing Agenda pushes so Many hot buttons that the whole Region could be burning before Bill Clinton gets settled in to the Oval news los Angeles it is enough for us that american troops and supplies have been streaming into Somalia to bring food to the starving. Creating order out of chaos May not be in their Power and definitely should not be their Mission newday Long Island . The . Troops providing desperately needed Relief in Somalia must not be derailed from their Mission a feeding the hungry a by ill conceived United nations demands that they disarm All factions or by their own misguided plans to confiscate local drugs. They must stick to their Job and when its done get out the Clarion Ledger Jackson miss. International Relief workers Are understandably upset that securing Interior areas of Somalia is going slowly. But it is Only prudent that military forces Advance in a manner whereby safety is the first Issue fort Worth Star Telegram yes the seemingly plodding Pace of getting on with the Job that has drawn . Military forces to Somalia is frustrating. Well sometimes you have to Trust the Guys who have the actual responsibility a in this Case Marine it. Gen. Robert Johnston. Obviously it is Johnston a impression that his Mission is to feed those hungry thousands but to do it without unnecessarily exposing his troops to danger. That Means preparation staging doing it step by free press this nation and the world Community May be thankful that the first stages of the unprecedented .-led Effort to bring humanitarian Relief to Somalia a starving people have gone smoothly and peacefully Congress still needs to debate exactly what the further . Role should be in Somalia militarily and Greensburg a. President elect Clinton a decision to take a hard line against so called revolving door lobbying was a Good one. By putting strict limits on certain Post government activities of top appointees hell discourage the Friendly manipulation of Public officials by former colleagues Bill Clinton a insistence on Long term commitments to ethical propriety from subordinates is a reassuring sign of positive Washington Post president elect Clinton is currently being advised by a variety of commercial lobbies to Call for a delay in the world Trade negotiations until he takes office expansion of Trade has promoted economic growth consistently Ever since world War ii. To Call for delays and to break the present momentum toward that agreement would destroy a great Chance to strengthen the Prosperity of this country and the Augusta a chronicle president elect Clinton at. His economic conference. Rightly told participants that a your National debt is a Ball and Chain dragging us Down. We must Stop this Cycle of borrow and spend the new president has a critical honeymoon period with which to work with a new Congress a perhaps the first 100 Days. After that time Well soon see if we re headed toward Hackling ourselves from that $4 trillion a Ball and Philadelphia inquirer a study advising a a per gallon Gas tax hike a along with taxes to Dampen the use of Coal Oil and natural Gas a is not exactly getting a Bear hug from the Clinton administration. You a have thought Given the rhetoric of the Bush Campaign that the Clinton Gore Green team would have leapt at the Opportunity. But or. Clinton knows full Well the pitfall of breaking tax pledges a and he a got one of his own no new Middle class tax hikes for the moment the Columbus Ohio dispatch the question no longer seems to be whether the United states will have a National health care system but what its form will be. Reform is being demanded at All Levels. What is imperative now is that new strategies be crafted with care so an unwieldy too expensive system is not replaced with something even fort Lauderdale Fla. Ricky Ray the 15-year-old Orlando boy who died sunday of aids was fated to carry a much heavier Burden throughout his Short lifetime than any child should be expected to Bear. Ricky a advocacy of improved aids treatment and his Effort to write a Book about his ordeal were Cut Short when he fell gravely ill after thanksgiving. But Ricky completed his most important task m showing americans that the True visage of aids is not that of an easily stereotyped homosexual or drug abuser but All too often the questioning face of an innocent Muncie ind evening press one of the first foreign policy challenges to confront the Clinton administration will focus on what the . Can do to assist russians struggling efforts at economic Reform. If he is Wise the new president will ignore the pleas for boatloads of Cash and credits and look instead to casing russians massive foreign debt. St. Louis Post dispatch the United states foolishly and unnecessarily opened itself up to International embarrassment with the passage of the misnamed a cuban democracy act of 1992.�?�the embargo against Cuba is nothing More than an icy relic of the cold War. If nothing else tightening it gives or. Castro precisely what he needs most during this time of increasing austerity in Cuba the giant outside enemy against whom cubans can Star Paola Iii. This latest report out of Moscow should dispel any doubts about whether russian government officials have it in them to move toward democracy american style. It seems that russian parliament speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov was the subject of a recent news Story about his alleged affair with a 23-year-old female russian journalist makes one wonder if sen. Bob Packwood a been polishing his san Francisco san Francisco a chronic shortage of Public toilets is one of the City a most painful deficiencies. Relief however May soon be coming thanks to the recently appointed toilet task Force and a French company that wants to install a number of High tech coi operated Loos around town. We urge the City to move rapidly on this unique pay As you go proposal. What a flushed wont wind up on the . Daily mall the . Postal service is to be congratulated for dedicating a stamp to the King of Rock in a Roll. Postal officials fear their presses wont keep up with the demand for the 29-cent Elvis stamp a even with an initial printing of 300 million Stamps. The Elvis stamp to be issued on what would have been his 50th birthday shows real Progress at the Post office. Give the postal service credit. Why it even managed to show a Small profit this year
