European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse 1993 commentary the stats and St upts 15 what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editor jul purr put re War card from a Cross Section of or a per the i Niord suites tree editorial Art prot kid by the a Oiin a press i aft Ford press International. Rapid City . Journal like a dog thai has been kicked before inc american Public could View president Clinton s economic proposal with some scepticism after All taxes were raised with the budget agreement of 1990 and we did not see any reduction in the deficit. Northeast Mississippi Dally journal Tupelo miss. President Clinton set the nation s Compass on a new economic heading in his first. Speech to a joint congressional session and a National television audience. Let those who oppose Linton s specifics for whatever reason Otter specific alternatives and then prepare to find common ground. Las vegas review journal & Sun the echoes from Bill Clinton s passionate orator had barely faded from the congressional Chambers. Before the administration began juggling the budget numbers. Clinton Speaks of sacrifice but americans have been doing precisely that year after year so Washington can spend Money the Way a Junkie mainlines heroin. It s time for big government not wage earners to sacrifice. The Cincinnati enquirer president Bill Clinton has been bounding All Over the country seeking support for his tax boosting plan but he s Only proved one Point so far the More things change the More they remain the same. Most of the promises Clinton made during the Campaign have been forgotten by him during the first month of his presidency. They Don t erase the feeling that we be seen this kind of tax and spend double dealing out of Washington in the past. Daily news los Angeles if president Clinton is serious about cutting Federal spending. Hell have to get rid of programs such As the subsidy that provides $50 million to ranchers who raise Angora goats thirty years ago the military expected to need warm uniforms and lacked synthetic materials so mohair the Wool of Angora goats was designated a strategic material along with sheep s Wool. Sheep and Goat Farmers were promised income support payments. The military s need for mohair has Long since passed but the program As programs tend to do lives on. The Charleston . Gazette As Long As terrorism exists and smaller nations gain the ability to make nuclear devices America needs spies abroad to detect possible threats. And there s a need for reliable information about nations which May be on the Brink of civil War or about to invade their neighbors. But there s no need for a monster size Central intelligence Agency nor any justification for evils of the Type the Cia has committed St. Paul Minn Pioneer press it s hard to overstate the airlines troubles. The Industry lost $8 billion Over the past three years. Every american airline contributed to that figure and every one has a debt Laden balance Sheet today. A persuasive study published by George Washington University last fall doubts the conventional Wisdom that the airlines Are undergoing a shakeout from which handful of healthy carriers will emerge. The study argues the Industry is involved in something More like a suicide pact. Virginian review Covington a. Japanese automakers Are working intently to develop More and More fuel efficient engines. It appears that the same cannot be said of american automakers they fought hard against the most recent push in Congress for a further increase in mile per gallon requirements Over the next few years. This again showed Detroit s failure to accept its obligation As producer of the largest Drain on our Energy reserves to help create a National Energy conservation strategy. The Greenville . News it might be too late to make a difference for the near term but a . House committee has begun a examination of pork barrel science Grants to colleges and universities that could mean fewer of them in the future this scrutiny is Long overdue. While some of the projects paid for by earmarks undoubtedly Are worthwhile Federal research Money should be award Don a basis that s More substantial than the ability of a member of Congress to get a Grant quietly inserted into an appropriations Bill. The advocate Baton Rouge la. In a political Rebuff to president Clinton the Senate has voted to put into Law a government ban on immigrants who Are infected with his of the aids virus regardless of the merits of such a ban however the . Must move quickly on the larger question of How to Deal with the Large number of haitian refugees who Are being kept in Haiti Only by a legally questionable coast guard blockade. Richmond a times dispatch sports illustrated has unveiled its eagerly awaited by 12-year-Olds and grading adolescents swimsuit coveted cover features a Model by the name of Vendela who reportedly Speaks five languages and does Volunteer work for the homeless. Perhaps Vendela also invented fire the wheel baseball television the polio vaccine the self cleaning oven the breakfast Burn to and the diatonic scale. The daily Gazette Schenectady . There s been Idle and hurtful speculation that Janet Reno president Clinton s nominee for attorney general is a lesbian., the sad part of the attempts to Label Reno an the fact that Many people who should know better ask the a question around the office or Coffee shop is what it says about american society that we still have Ahard time accepting non traditional lifestyles even one As harmless As being Middle aged and single in Reno s own words an old maid older never married men As Well As women risk the Rumor Mill. Boston Herald Gilbert Moore jr., a student at Williams College mass has a lot 10 Jan. 27, Moore a Junior who is Black posted Anonymous anti Black hate letters on the door of the Lack student Union. That action predictably triggered a Campus juror. Moore did t confess for several Days. When he dul it was with the excuse that he had acted to generate conversation about race relations. For his poisonous actions Moore has been suspended for a semester a punishment some Black students think is too severe. Dut outwardly racist acts Are wrong no matter who commits them and no matter Why. Moore deserves precisely the same punishment the College would have imposed on a White student who did what he did. Otherwise it will teach a corrosive lesson that behaviour and character matter less than skin us for mentioning it but that s called racism. The Dallas morning news . Foreign policy officials normally keep their personal assessments of a foreign Leader s ability to stay in Power to themselves especially if that Leader happens to be the head of an important country like Russia. Richard Armitage who was coordinating u. S. Aid to to the former soviet Union should have done so. Because he did the got the Boot. In a speech to the Vanderbilt University Institute for Public policy studies or. Armitage predicted that russian president Boris Yeltsin s Days arc somewhat numbered because he does t have a clue or Lucks a grand vision of what it takes to tackle Russia s Many political and economic problems. That might be. But such a Public assessment by a current foreign policy official is irresponsible. The Indianapolis news president Clinton has taken to the bully pulpit to rail against the High Price of vaccines required for immunizing infants and children. But As or. C. Leverett Koop former . Surgeon general noted in a recently published piece the High Cost of the series of vaccines is not the primary reason Why nearly half of All american children under the age of 2 Are not receiving their necessary shots. Much of the problem according to Koop is parents who out of ignorance or neglect Don t get their youngsters to the doctor or clinic for the full series of shots. Milwaukee Sentinel Tough talking Saddam Hussein turned on the Charm As the iraqi Leader indicated he would like to open dialogue and a new relationship with president Clinton. What Hussein obviously wants to do is to Schnoo a Clinton in order to impress his own countrymen und establish himself As the Victor rather than the vanquished in what has now turned into a War of nerves. Greensburg a Tribune review a possible increase in the Federal excise tax on Beer from $1-30 to As much As $3.25 a Case is one thing the brewing Industry does not treat lightly. And understandably so for it would Hurt sales. On the other hand a boost in taxation would we suspect contribute a lot of men and women to the unemployment Rolls. That in turn can create the sort of pressures that stimulate alcohol abuse
