European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 10, 1993 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15are saying at the following editorial excerpts Are selected front a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the unused states. The editorials Are provided by the associated press and United press International. The Cincinnati Post the new Congress has assembled in Washington and it s hard to know whether to cheer Salute or lock up the silverware. Will this be another free spending Bunch or will sanity prevail will the budget deficit Rise or will lawmakers Cut costs for a change its a new beginning All right. And there is no denying that relations Between Congress and the White House will be less acrimonious now that democrats dominate both. The danger is that the Back slapping and geniality Wilt degenerate into a spending party with taxpayers footing the Bill. The Greenville . News times Are Tough in the defense Industry with the cold War Over and huge cutbacks in military spending looming. But the Pentagon is doing its Best to bolster the morale of beleaguered defense contractors. According to a recent story.,. The Pentagon is. Paying for such things As liquor Cable to and tickets to sporting events for employees of defense contractors. The contractors undoubtedly Are feeling better As a result of receiving these Perks. Unfortunately the spirits of taxpayers picking up the Bill for the fun May be a bit Low. Constitution Atlanta the political soothsayers have been Reading the entrails regarding Bill Clinton s Cabinet appointments seeking clues to the policies the new administration will follow. In most cases the track records of the incoming officials Are Well known and thus predictions Are easy. In one Case however the oracles have fallen silent a because there Are no entrails to examine president elect Clinton a Choice for . Trade representative is Mickey Kantor his Campaign chairman. If he has any views at All on Trade they Are the Best kept secret of the entire political Yea Pittsburgh Post Gazette new Sfax most discussion of Bill Clinton a Cabinet has focused on whether in aiming to construct a Cabinet that a looked like America a the president elect has succumbed to the very sort of ethnic and gender a bean counting he condemned in some of his feminist critics. The answer seems to be yes. V the question is How they will function As an orchestra under his Huntington . Well before Midnight on election Day americans knew they had elected Bill Clinton to be their new president. Yet the wait from then until Jan. ?0, when Clinton will take office will be 11 weeks. Today with voting machines computers instant electronic communications and Jet air travel there a simply no justification for a transition period that stretches out for week after weary week a and is budgeted at $3.5 million. Reducing that period would require a constitutional amendment but such an amendment is Long Meridian miss Star in television. A commentator said that Ira Gate reminds him of the old saying a there Are three sides to every controversy. One Side and the other Side and the truth.�?�. We be heard two of the three for six years and we probably will never actually know what the third is. Its Over. It s time to admit it and go onto new York times president Bush said he had pardoned six Jan Contra defendants so the country could a move on a but the pardons themselves wont permit it. Not Only did the pardons frustrate a full accounting of responsibility for the scandals but the pardons demand their own accounting just As they did when president Ford pardoned Richard Nixon the Philadelphia Dally news. Prepare yourselves Allye who suffer from the human urge to commemorate. This year will Mark the 25th anniversary of some very weird things some tragic things and not a Little bit of fun. The tragedies continue to resonate nobody can know what might have been. The rest is just unbelievable. Only Nixon Tribune newspaper of the twin cities Minneapolis in their Moscow meetings., president Bush and russian president Boris Yeltsin truly went Back to the future. By Early in the next Century the strategic arms treaty should push . And russian nuclear arsenals Back to Levels of the 1960s, before the Advent of multiple warhead the Columbus Ohio dispatch its ironic that one Leader who is perched on a Slippery slope and another who will leave office in a few Days were the two who got together in Moscow to sign the most far reaching nuclear arms pact in history. When president Bush has left the White House and is writing his memoirs some Day this past weekend is. Likely to loom Large in his memory. In an administration studded with Many foreign affairs successes the last several Days rank nigh among them the Sun Baltimore president Bush has every right to feel gratified by the giant Steps on nuclear disarmament that have occurred on his watch the culmination being the Start i and ii treaties to reduce superpower strategic arsenals by two thirds in the next decade. He has every right too to Hope president elect Clinton does not make the mistake he committed Early in his administration by letting diplomacy with Moscow lag to the detriment of a detente minded democracy mind russian Leader. What has been done embellishes the Bush legacy. What remains will have much to do with history a judgment on Bill Clinton and Boris a times dispatch George Bush a quiet but triumphal visit to Russia closes his presidency and validates a grand strategy. Peace is not a policy but a condition and the 12 years of the Reagan Bush administration created conditions conducive to peace Between two former adversaries Chicago Tribune no Story in the news provoked As much conversation Over the holidays As that of 9-year-old Nicole schoo anti her 4-year-old sister Diana who were left to fend for themselves while their parents flew to Mexico for a Christmas vacation. Could anyone be so heartless As to intentionally leave two Small children Home alone. Home alone sadly it happens every times Picayune new Orleans an aging Fidel Castro could be witnessing the crumbling of his marxist regime. The number of cubans fleeing to the United states some in dramatic ways is rising steadily. Now that the Iron curtain is gone the a Cane curtain is probably not far behind the Philadelphia inquirer the tax return packets the irs has begun mailing out include one form that a Worth a lot of Money to working families that Are struggling to get by. With it families that earned less than $22,370 last year can get tax credit Worth up to $2,200. The average Benefit is about $850. Even if a family owes no income tax it can receive a Check for this credit a As Long As someone files for it. This obscure Benefit a known As the earned income credit Etc a is the exact opposite of welfare. The government ends up paying people a Bonus for working in Low wage jobs a rather than paying them a Good Deal More to stay Home. Just about every welfare Reform plan includes proposals to expand his tax credit thereby increasing the attractiveness of work. 1. A the Indianapolis Star the social engineering of the 1960s has graduated to the social bioengineering of the 1990s. A Washington d c., think tank called the communitarian network wants to make Organ donation mandatory. Upon death everyone a body would become Public property so to speak and available for medical harvesting. All needed and usable organs would be subject to removal for transplanting. 4 t i a that is not the Road to honorable government policy. It is the Road to hell. A the Sacramento Calif Bee the european map endures yet another makeover on new years Day the 74-year-old federation of Czechoslovakia split peacefully into two separate countries. Though its disheartening to watch the dissolution of a Union that seemed to hold such enriching possibilities the amicable parting of czechs and slovaks a particular in the Shadow of the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia a is to be welcomed As an enlightened Way to reconfigure nations. A. A Sun Sentinel fort Lauderdale Fla . Sen Connie Mack Calls it a an outrage that cheats even those harsh words understate the harmful Impact of the . Census bureaus refusal to adjust its inaccurate count of the nations and Florida a population. 1 because poor people make up the bulk of Tatj under counted funding for programs to help Florida Deal with the growing expense of supplying services to the poor will jag behind the real need. Because african americans hispanics and haitians were the most Likely to be missed by the census the under count in effect becomes government sanctioned discrimination against minorities. That a intolerable. Fix the census and fix it now
