European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 3, 4993 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15are saying at 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 International. V Detroit free press t it like an especially malevolent ghost of Christmas past iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein forcefully reminded the world. That not All of its evil is. Confined to Bosnia or Somalia. In an apparent test of continued International determination to protect rebellious shiite muslims in Southern Iraq from Baghdad sponsored air attacks iraqi jets violated the no Fly zone imposed by persian Gulf War allies. . Forces shot Down one of those warplanes. Ominously Hough Iraq reiterated its rejection of the no Fly zone and threatened to retaliate Quot in the suitable manner and at an appropriate time a. Iraq seems Likely to remain a headache for the Clinton Long is land . President Bush a Pardon of Caspar Weinberger and five other figures in the Iran Contra scandal is shamefully wrong and a tragic misuse of the presidents Power. A in this Case Bush is saying that when there Are policy differences Between the executive and legislature the executive May withhold information mislead or out and out lie. This is a pernicious doctrine. That Bush waited until Christmas eve to do this deed a when the nation was otherwise occupied a. Only emphasizes the sordid nature of his action. Philadelphia Dally news 7 great now we be got the criminals forgiving themselves. Even Richard Nixon the Prince of darkness himself had the Good taste to find some poor Booboo blow out the charges against him.,. As always president Bush gives the lie to his own words about the grand principle behind the Iran Contra pardons. He did no to stand up before the election and state his position boldly. He waited until any backlash matter to his own future and sneakily made his move. Now Bush has reached Bottom. He pardoned Tribune president Bush a Pardon of former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other people connected to the Iran Contra scandal was announced on Christmas eve and reported in the nations newspapers on Christmas Day a when most americans were too Busy opening presents visiting relatives and assembling toys to pay very much a attention to the news. For the six men he pardoned Bush May have finally put an end to this sorry chapter of history. The rest of the country May find he a guaranteed it will drag on even Plain dealer Cleveland the cover up is Complete. By granting unjust and unjustifiable pardons to six senior officials involved in the Iran Contra scandal president Bush has prevented a Complete investigation of the crimes that subverted . Foreign policy in the 1980s. Bush s latest Iran Contra misjudgment a correctly condemned by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh As part of the a pattern of deception and corruption that permeated the highest Levels of the Reagan and Bush administrations a will surely tarnish the Bush presidency s place in history.,. Fort Worth Texas Star Telegram if the object of president Bush a Christmas eve Pardon of six Iran Contra defendants a some of them already convicted and others like former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Only recently accused and not yet brought to trial a was to Brush the scandal under the Rug and end it Bush failed. In the end he took the wrong advice. By pardoning his friends while under suspicion himself Bush has nailed Down his own place in history As a sort of a indicted co conspirator. What we have seen is a Legal subversion of Justice. An evasion of the Law. A refusal to be Tribune newspaper of the twin cities 7 Minneapolis. 1 White House insider talk is hard to hear this far from Washington. So we can Only guess at what was said to president Bush about pardoning former _ _ Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the Iran Contra gang. The wrongdoing in the Iran Contra scandal has. Been made Clear and the country needs to move on to the tasks of the 1990s. That move would be easier if a a Bush had not trivialized the misdeeds of those whom. He pardoned. A a Orange county Register Santa Ana Calif. A what did Bill Clinton Promise during the Campaign to gain the tacit support of the Rev. Jesse jackson7 unlike the 1984 and 1988 campaigns in which the Rev. Jackson extracted superstar Billing at the democratic conventions in 1992 he was Only a Star. Perhaps the Price was or. Clinton a Strong support for statehood for Washington . In any Case or. Clinton has publicly backed the statehood proposal which would transform the Rev. Jackson from the districts Shadow senator into a full fledged senator from a new Sun Baltimore. George Bush will not be remembered in history As the Quot education president or the a environment president a but he is staking a claim on the title of disarmament american and russian negotiators have wrapped up details on a new strategic arms reduction treaty president elect Clinton is a direct beneficiary. Start ii will have bipartisan backing and will save the Clinton administration the Burden of reinventing a treaty whose main thrust is already widely Washington pos Lebanon and Israel Are conducting a lest of wills Over the 400-Odd palestinians Israel expelled on . 17 through the slice of territory in South Lebanon that it runs and regards As its a Security plight of these refugees is a distraction from the Central Issue a peace. The fundamentalists had a purpose in mind when they organized the murders that provoked israeli retaliation to undermine the Arab israeli peace talks. Los Angeles times it s official americans ninth postwar recession ended in March 1991. Say what the panel of academic economists who oversee such matters has formally declared the recession is Over. But then again these arc the same people who did not even acknowledge that the recession was in Force until april 1991 a one month after the recession presumably ended and Well after the economic slump began in july 1990. No wonder Consumers arc insecure and unsure about the Economy. A Huron . Dally plainsman. President elect Clinton is anxious to get an Effort to make Good on Campaign promises he invited 329 guests to Little Rock for a two Day talk fast on the Economy. It had All the sounds of something big going on. Still it seemed kind of fishy. If Clinton Sas smart As he thinks he is hell put his stimulus program ideas on the Back Burner. Time is on his Side. Even with a new supposedly in gridlocked Congress it would take months to pass anyway a too late to make much difference. It would be like hitching a Clydesdale to a Corvette a when 300 horses arc already pulling you along one More Isnit going to make much difference. The Sacramento Calif Bee political commentator Kevin Phillips May be right that the Clinton Cabinet does no to really look like America it Only looks like the 43 percent of America that voted for Bill Clinton. It has no republicans in it or Perot voters and liberals arc probably overrepresented. And yet Clinton s senior team a 12 White men six women four Blacks two hispanics a is hardly a collection of yes men or yes women. If anything describes it its the groups centrist pragmatism rather than its ideological the Indianapolis news it has been reported that a declining number of american taxpayers Are designating their tax dollars to pay for presidential campaigns. Public officials need to take a Good look at the Way our presidential elections Are being funded. Meanwhile those involved in politics need to engage in some reflection on the kind of show they arc urging the Public to Greenville . News the space shuttle discovery glided Home to its Landing site in California bringing five astronauts Back from another pedestrian trip into orbit. Twenty years ago Oiler american spacemen were hard at work at a Mission that starkly demonstrates the Drift today in the nations space program. Its a cruel twist that the vision and drive that fuelled Apollo Moon adventure somehow coalesced into the space shuttle which Nasa flies essentially for the Sake of flying it and into an embarrassingly unambitious planned space station which will be built mostly it seems to give the shuttle something to do
