European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 letters to the editor Friday Juty 23.1993 thes european edition col Steven 3. Hoffman Usan. Commander publish Bernard a. Zovistoski editor news and editorial Bill Walker european editor Zeboren Battier news editor Bob Wicker sports editor f nil Cosby City editor special sections editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 Orost Facell 1437 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 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 Jim Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326 news bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, Rome str. 104, 69126 Heidelberg car 419, Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421. 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He s just As bad in the article israeli infiltrates Neo nazi ranks july 10journalist Yaron Storay reveals information about Neo nazis in a report that he believes will Aiderman officials in the arrest of the alleged criminals. Storay indicated that he had to endure listening to daily abuses directed at his own people but he was Able to get re Venge in parking lot fistfights with Young skinheads As part of rituals proving their manhood. He was quoted As saying you Haven t lived until you be beaten up a granted Neo nazis Are ignorant and socially irresponsible but with statements like that docs Storay honestly believe that he. Is any different Joyce m. Tuten Nomburg Germany Why he Rush to Rush i owe my acquaintance with Rush Lim Baugh s philosophies solely to your letters Page. My curiosity was aroused to the Point that i actually watched a few of his snows during a recent trip to America. I can honestly say i have Seldom seen such overblown buffoonery be it on Ger Man or american television As the Rush Limbaugh show. My Girlfriend is in the . Army and though a conservative organization the army is also responsible for pioneering several positive societal changes Seldom have i witnessed so Many different races living arid working together in the rela Tive Harmony and Mutual acceptance Ason the army Cavern. This is an indisputable fact of which your military can be justifiably proud. Therefore i am a Little confused. Tomake such a demand for this show is it not tantamount to proclaiming i am in tolerant of non aryan americans i am intolerant of women to Champion this show which incidentally i do not think is intended to be Tongue in Cheek As one writer put it is a direct contradiction of the positive so Cial values the military espouses equal Ity for All races and sexes. Do people honestly think there Are any Lack americans or other minorities who can respect Rush Limbaugh a Daren t they discomfited by or downright leery of their allegedly tolerant co workers who support Limbaugh s poli tics intolerance after All has very fluid boundaries. Thomas Boehm � Frankfurt Germany. Don t listen to wimps More than 100 stations in the states broadcast the Rush Limbaugh Day that an learns to utilize com Mon sense by fulfilling the wishes of their viewers often referred to As customers people will judge Rush for what Rush says. All they have now Are the words of a Bunch of bleeding heart wimps who cry to the editor. They need to hear the Way things really ought to be. Pfc. Timothy Pirr Tasens German keep open mind on guns regarding time for the Nea to do reality Check july 7comparison with the situation in Somalia is totally writer is comparing the United states with a nation that has t had an Law and order for years if not decades. Their social system in t in any condition to allow gun ownership. But i believe ours is and the closest analogy i can come up with is that every american adult has the right not privilege to can t vote because they Aren t mentally prepared to choose the Fate of the nation. Granted some adults Aren t either but that does t mean no on should be allowed to vote. Guns in Law abiding citizens hand do Stop crime. The City of Kennesaw ga., experienced an 88 percent drop i crime after passing an ordinance requiring All residents to own a firearm. Alter barring the Possession of firearms the town of Martin Grove 111., saw a marked increase in crime. Law enforcement officers Are killed be cause of the rules of engagement which prohibit them from carrying their weapon sin their hands at All times which is what they need to do in m any cities. An untrained gun wielding housewife is Likely to scare an attacker off because she is holding a gun not because she knows How to use it. Being called a zealot is also an insult due to the fact that i m willing to let ple choose whether they want to own Agun or not and respect their views no matter what their Choice. Anti gunners like religious zealots feel we All must conform to their warped ways of think ing because after All they know Best and Are Only looking out for the rest of us like hitter was when he burned books sent jews to death Camps and enslaved Europe. Maybe the writer needs to Wake Upland smell the Coffee. The military has a hard enough Mission to accomplish with out its leaders hampering us More with such narrow minded . Phil Smith Idar Obestein Germany. Sour note on opera your article about opera in Italy was very informative but i find it difficult to believe you did not mention the City of Verona. Verona has a very interesting the Center of town is the famous Arena i Verona an Amphitheater Whereat least three operas Are performed each season usually including Verdi s famous aids. Something strange is your map of Italy in the article. I did t realize they had moved Bologna about 350 Kilometre from the Emilia to the austrian Border. Surely you can do better than Avi Noab Italy f. Editor s note letters from readers expressing their View Points or opinions Are published Dally on this Page. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Let ters should include address and Telephone number. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Commentary children should divorce Absentee parents by Joyce Gabriel a Good Friend wrote me an impassioned essay a couple of months ago on the subject of sex spouses who walk away from their children giving them neither financial nor emotional support. She thought the topic might make Good column fodder. Our children ought to be Able to divorce them she said if for no other reason than to be Able to express the Strong sense of outrage they feel Over being abandoned by a her essay was sparked by two things. The first was her younger son s upcoming bar Mitzvah and the other was a col league s dilemma Over financing her daughter s College education. This Friend Well Call her Ann had divorced the father of her two sons a number of years before and had Remar ried a Lovely Man who has certainly acted like a father to her children. What Ann is proposing seems like Solomon s Justice. As a child if your Absentee Parent has t had anything to do with you for several years Why can t you disavow him or her just like adults do to each other in the divorce process. I think it might be useful if children could be More proactive in the process of child support and visitation and How it affects them Long after their parents marriage is legally dissolved. I Don t believe something like this should happen in concert with the marital breakup but if years go by and the Absentee Parent is not involved in the child s life maybe the child should be Able to do something about sounds like a Good formula for getting grown to act like grown and if they Don to for letting kids feel there is some Way they can state How they View an Absentee Parent s actions. This kind of divorce could include a Legal notice disavowing any connection with the Absentee Parent and could even allow the child to give up that Parent s last name. C the Stamford advocate Hospital thus a Vouha or icon us mom. I ?1ouhave Nve mks. Icon Kobuk of 1 coming up me .hjha7 -1
