European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 b i Utterb to the editor l saturday february 13,1993 thes european edition col Gene e. Townsend Vas a commander publisher. A Bernard a. Zovistoski editor news and editorial Bill Walker european editor Deborah Kabahar news editor Bob we Fer sports editor raut Cosby City editor a Georg Manee. Special sections editor to write us unit 29400 apoae09211 of up Sfach 11 14 37. 6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany news Tel fax 061 $5-601416 to Callos dial 06165-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237,255,282.226,326. Sports ext. 225,269,263,332,321,221. Features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext 208. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, rat Merst. 104, w-6900 he Dolberg car 419, Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421. 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Everything advanced in this publication shall be made available Tor Purchase use or patronage without regard to race color religion sox National origin age mantel status. Physical Handicap political affiliation or any other non meet Factor of the purchaser utter or Patron. No medicare Here i am writing to provide input for Hillary Rodham Clinton a project to provide medical coverage for All americans. Using myself As an example i have paid and am continuing to pay into social Security for 45 years Ana cannot use my medicare coverage. Military retirees arc covered with their dependents by space available use of . Medical facilities and civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services. However once one reaches age 65 and is eligible for social Security champs is involuntarily replaced by medicare. For one living outside United states medicare is not authorized to be paid. There Are hundreds of thousands of . Citizens living opt Side the states paying . Federal and state income taxes and social Security tax. Many thousands of these citizens remain overseas upon retirement and when reaching age 65 find themselves without medical coverage. One solution would help the military Retiree pass legislation that would permit one to remain on champs when residing in Art area where medicare is not payable. Another solution would help both military and civilian retirees pass legislation that would allow medicare to be payable outside the United states. _ �?a1 schwing Garmisch Germany troublesome car in response to a no complaints for Ford Jan. 22my husband and i purchased a 1991 Ford Tempo in August. This a Ford built Quality one Quot car has been in for repairs 13 times. Right now we arc waiting to take the car Back to the authorized dealer for the second oxygen sensor replacement. We thought that we were being Good americans try purchasing an american built car. We will not make that mistake again. This car has Cost us time off from work and has also Cost us $1,000 for car rental when our car needed a new clutch. We went on vacation and did not want to get stranded. We have had to fight to get any repairs done to this car. We Are still very displeased with the service we have received. At times we have even had a new problem after we picked up the car from eing repaired. Our one year five month old car is less reliable than our 12-Ycar-od Dat Sun. So you might understand Why a letter is being drafted to Fords chief executive officer. No one Here in Germany seems to care when you get a Lemon. Now you have heard a complaint about the dealer service. A Angela a Cor incr Kam Stcin a Germany i too Many people you already know that we re depleting our resources and damaging the environmental balance but you May not realize that we re killing ourselves by population alone. From a humanist perspective our medical advances arc wonderful infant mortality is Down and longevity is up. However people Are not balancing these things by having a population explosion that even the experts did not foresee. Since survival of the fittest no applies to Humankind j for a More effective strike. Aids did not exist in the last Century. Earth has devel oped it to combat her human infestation until she can come up with something better. Something better May be a non his form of aids. Such cases have been reported. Aids is hot natures Only weapon either. Bacterial infections arc becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. One Strain of tuberculosis can resist eight Oil pc rent antibiotics. It May develop resistance to All  Point is that we must Stop having so. Many children if humanity is to survive. A Michel la Castille Frankfurt Germany a. 0 a writer is Oit Basc columnist . Rosenthal compares accepting Gays in the military with americans past policy of denying Black americans equal rights in the military. This correlation is false. / Gays will kill morale and be a detriment to operational readiness As Well As give the .. Military an image of weakness. Not Only in the Barracks will this happen but ultimately on the Battlefield. It is my opinion that Gay people do not have the Strong mental capacity it takes to be in the military. Rosenthal also says the military should a get rid of All self segregated clubs and a bars White Black or  the last time 1 checked on any military installation there Wasny to a Whites Only Neq club or a Blacks Only officers club. It sickens me when people inject race where it has no basis. A staff sgt. Agustin j. Cruz Raf Aconbury England a a whose military is this Why is it that everyone on the outside can protest to allow Gays in the military when our own soldiers can to really protest to keep them out whose military is this anyway a Diana fast Stuttgart Germany 3 marines for 1 Gay i hear that the marines arc looking for a few Good men. It seems that it takes three of them to assault a Gay. A Dawn e. Williams Schweinfurt Germany a a a take he moral High Road i am an avid Reader of the stars and stripes especially the letters Page. Several times a week there is a Lettu from a Reader who is angered by something that is forbidden by their Jude Christian ethic. What prompts my letter Are the comments made about the recent changes in the stars and stripes format specifically the inclusion of horoscopes. The Reader states that this indulgence into a form of a pseudoscience and witchcraft i expressly forbidden by god and is a an insult to All intelligent persons who deplore this toying with babylonian paganism and  frankly i do not read horoscopes. I do not find them important or necessary to my lifestyle. But i find these types of comments insulting. While we Are thumping the Bible please remember that astrological lore can be found in the gospel of Luke which tells about the magi those awful babylonian again i.e., the Wise men from the East who followed a Star that led them to Jesus. Also let us not forget that the whole world is not jewish or Christian and that we should not push our beliefs upon others. The moral High Road we need to take is the Road of acceptance not narrow mindedness and prejudice therefore if i want to read my Horoscope in the stars and stripes during a Pagan gathering in the recreation Center it is my right. A a. Farkas Ett Linsun Germany r help As close As Library the new computers Section Jan. 26 featured an article that discussed some of the new cd rom information resources available to Home users provided they have the necessary Money and technical sophistication. Those without the Cash or the expertise should not despair. These systems can be found in almost All base libraries in the . 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