European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 7, 1993 newspapers Are saying at Home a commentary the stars and stripes Page 15 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. Star Tribune newspaper of the twin cities Minneapolis my but the Long knives were out for president Linton and is economic plan. Thank goodness the knife wielders mostly stabbed themselves. Unlike Ronald Reagan and George Bush Clinton has offered the outline of a coherent deficit reduction program and leadership needed to make it work. Critics from the order of the Long knives should Swallow their swords or fall on them a and let the rest of the nation get on with the serious work of ensuring that Clinton a program succeeds. The Sun Baltimore. After the huge blast that rocked new Yorkus world Trade Center there Are far More questions than answers about How and Why it happened. The first question on most americans minds is whether it Marks the Start of an outbreak of attacks the real danger to Ordinary citizens in the country a political and financial capitals As Well As elsewhere is the mentally unbalanced copy cat. The Philadelphia Dally news if there Are any lessons to be Learned from the near catastrophe at the world Trade Center and there must be Man three arc dramatically apparent a human everyone is vulnerable. A things can be done. There a no such thing As being too careful but its reassuring to observe that in times of emergency we need t depend Only on technology. We still have each other. Los Angeles times. A Large Quantity of explosives was detonated in a Parkin level beneath the twin towered 110-Story world Trade Center in new York killing at least five people injuring More than 1,000, terrifying tens of thousands and sending a chilling reminder of How vulnerable our open society is to callous acts of destructive madness. That More did not die in the new York explosion May Only have been a matter of Luck. Americans ought to move quickly to base their Security on something much More constant and tangible than that. The Orange county Register Santa Ana Calif. As we mourn those who were killed or wounded it might not be amiss to ask a few questions about the raid in Texas against the Odd cult like group known As the Branch davidians was it really necessary or advisable for the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms to charge into the groups apparently Well guarded compound with guns blazing did the alleged offences of the group warrant such an assault. The question is uncomfortable but it needs to be asked. The Miami Herald in 1961, president Kennedy defined two driving forces of . Foreign assistance the a moral obligations of a Wise Leader and a Good neighbor a a and a the political obligations of the single largest counter to the adversaries of any foreign Aid policy Worth americans support he essentially said should seek to reconcile National interest with promotion of Freedom and Justice worldwide. Despite the end of the cold War those twin goals still apply the Cincinnati enquirer the 1931 Davis Bacon act robs taxpayers with computer like efficiency. Its a prevailing wage requirement for All work on federally aided building projects forces up costs by equating prevailing wages with Union Scales. That denies jobs to thousands of minority group members getting Davis Bacon off the books would help. Court action would be Best to get rid of the Davis Bacon state clones and let Market forces prevail on Public As Well As private projects. President Clinton and Abor Secretary Robert retch should Muster the courage to act. Tho new York times the ancient order of hibernian sponsors of new Yorkus St. Patrick a Day Parade have won the important right to decide who May March with them. A Federal court has upheld what the mayor Dinkins administration refused to acknowledge that private citizens have a constitutional right to express publicly in a Parade their own message about their own values without interference by government. Boston Herald less than a w Eek after president Clinton told Congress a if you pass the Brady Bill ill sure sign it a the legislation which would require a seven Day waiting period for All handgun purchases was reintroduced on Capitol l Lill. Since the Brady Bill was first Defeated in 1988, the number of americans killed and injured by guns has continued to Rise. The Brady Bill can lower these numbers. America needs this Law now. The Boston Lobo the agreement that returns to the Lakota people artefacts from the massacre at wounded knee is a Welcome one a testimony to the reasonable approach that was taken by the Lakota to the repatriation Issue a and to the generous spirit of the museum at Barre mass where the artefacts had been displayed for nearly a Century. But museum officials have been rightly concerned about the final disposition of the artefacts which they had carefully preserved. The Monument now proposed by the National Park service would provide an appropriate Home. Examiner san Francisco the benefits of White Collar crime became supremely evident again when court records showed that . History a biggest Crooks an assortment of Well garbed thieves who stole More Cash than All the nations Bank robbers put together were allowed to Swap prison time for restitution. Little or nothing has been repaid. Of 2,603 criminal cases arising from the looting of savings and loan institutions m the 1980s, 109 defendants agreed to plea bargains that included fines and repayments amounting to $133.8 million. Only $377,340 has been repaid so far. Pittsburgh Post Gazette four months after his Friend George Bush was Defeated for re a Lection Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney has announced his resignation. Like or. Bush the progressive conservative parly Leader suffered from a sluggish Economy that obscured his other achievements. But or. Mulroney will be remembered As a fighter. Leader Telegram eau Claire wis. It was inevitable that social Security in some Way would take a major hit in any determined program aimed at reducing the nations budget deficit and halting the spiralling $4 trillion National debt.,. Social Security is vulnerable because its enormous size makes it hard to ignore. At an estimated $302.2 billion in 1993, it is the single largest spending program in the Federal budget.,. The Post and courier Charleston . The Federal emergency management Agency came in for plenty of justifiable criticism for the inept be amp Sof its response during Hurricane Hugo and even More following Hurricane Andrew. A report from Cox news service suggests the Agency was distracted by other priorities. According to the Cox report Fema has spent hundreds of millions of dollars during the last decade on plans to keep the government intact following a nuclear War. But 6incc the collapse of the soviet Empire its More Likely Money Down the Drain the Sun Lowell mass. Doctors and researchers do not look for breakthroughs. The path to new medicines is Long and hard and methodical. Little by Little the scientists develop new drugs to fight off disease. But the discovery of a Means of thwarting his the virus that causes aids by combining three drugs already in use is being considered a possible medical wonder. This is exciting news and big things May come of the experiments of a medical school student who went about his testing because he became impatient w Ith the slow course of investigation that was Takin place
