European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 letters to the editor monday August 9.1993 thes european edition col Steven s. Hoffman sap commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski editor. News and editorial 0borah a of. News editor  sports editor  european editor cloy editor go met special sections editor to write us unit 29480 apoae09211 orpostfacrt111437 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 a cml Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room let Rome str. 104, 69126 Heidelberg chm 419, to 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421. Kaisers Stern Germany Kevin Dougherty John Bohr riot. Steva scholar. 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Perhaps a Little More internal attention now is what s required the United states is to continue to be a world j . Rose thar asked if anybody still cares about that old sentimental stuff like America being a Home for those who flee despotism a the answer is yes but we Are no longer living in the 1950sand America has to work out its own problems. Times change and so must we. It s Timeto help ourselves. Staff sgt. David f. Dict co Fulda Germany guns do Stop crimes the letter time for the Era to do reality Check did not contain any facts backed by statistics or studies. Instead twas filled with comments fuelled by the usual hype that the Media uses to gain ratings and sell newspapers. The weapons in the former Yugoslavia mentioned by the writer Are the weapons of its former armed forces. Under the communist regime the average citizens weren t allowed to own weapons. As a re sult the soldiers on both sides Are free to rape and pillage at will with no oppose  for guns preventing crime Accord ing to a Florida state criminal Gist Ever year nearly 1 million Law abiding citizens use their guns to defend themselves or prevent a crime from happening in the circulation toll free customer service for Homo or office delivery inquiries or delivery problems Call 24 hours Germany 0130-840048 Belgium 078tt-8775 Italy 1678-7-3456 United kingdom 0-800-898854netherlands Spain Tel fax Germany Augsburg civilian 0821-443254. Berlin civilian 030-8331846, Dan 332-3548. Bremerhaven civilian 047t-65ie8. Dan 342-8119.  cml Ian 0631-57070 or 57079, on 489-7100. Tel fax 0631 -50696. Nun Berk civilian 0911-712558, Dan 460-7001. Stuttgart civilian 0711-729-4283 of 4277. Dan 421 4283 of 4277. Italy Naples civilian 0039-b1 -724480, Dan 625-4880, Tel 3x003941-7244489. Vicenza civilian 0444-515358, Dan 634-7545, Tel fax 0444300641. Spain Madrid Dan 665-5807, civilian and Tel fax 00341 6581465. Turkey Istanbul civilian 0090-1-272 48 43, Tel fax 0090-1-274 3209. United kingdom Ciw-ncus1eh civilian 0285-713-637, Dan 247-4445. Advertising display Germany 06155 601247 or 601309. Dan 348 6247, classified Germany oc155 601349. Dan 348 8349. Advertising Teu fax 06155 c01412 please Recycle this newspaper a an authorized unofficial publication Tor members of lha military services overseas. Contents of Lii stars and stripes of not Nocos Sanly left oct to on Cia views of or Ike arsement by the . Government. A deportment Detonia ext . European command. Tit appearance it advertising in this publication. Including inserts of supplements does net constitute endorse in sol by the Depalm Nica defense or tha sus arid stapes o the products of services advertised. United states. If All of those Law abiding citizens were disarmed through gun control they could automatically be added tothe list of victims. Yes firearms do pre vent crime. Deterrence is a time prove concept As we recently experienced with the end of the cold War. Gun control in the form of the usual Bills presented to Congress will not  Only people affected Are Law abiding citizens criminals Are already breaking the existing gun Laws and they Aren afraid of unarmed Law abiding citizens. One thing that does affect crime rate Sis longer prison incarceration. According to the Fri uniform crime report the 10states with the greatest incarceration rate increases saw a decrease in crime. The 10 states with either the smallest increases or actual decreases of incarceration rates saw an increase in crime. What it boils Down to is that a person Slack of values make him rape Rob and commit crime. Upbringing has More Todo with that than the National Rifle association or the presence of a gun. Staff sgt. Timothy j.  a Germany gun controls needed imagine that automobiles existed inthe 1700s, and that our Bill of rights said the right to operate a motor vehicle  be infringed. Does any reasonable person think if that were the Case we would still not have found it necessary to educate test License and police Drivers Inan attempt to keep incompetents and wackos off the roads no the mayhem and carnage on our roads and the need to ensure the safety of the general population would have quickly demanded some Type of controls. Now extend the same line of thought to firearms. Can any reasonable person not see the need to at least attempt keep ing firearms out of the hands of wackos incompetents and fanatics those who wrote our Constitution and its compan Ion Bill of rights based both on the actions of reasonable people not on actions of the wild eyed zealots who so irrationally resist prudent and sensible gun con  should also be fairly obvious there is a correlation Between the people who so passionately oppose any gun control an those who probably could t qualify for gun ownership under a reasonable gun control policy. Figure it out. John  Germany v prejudice is passed on in the racially motivated society we live in today it is surely a repulsive display of attitude that is shown to us daily on the hour by the Media the racially motivated acts directed by one human being to an other for a simple reason As you Don look or act like  there Are educated people with a Lac of common sense who say there is no so Lution to this problem that our society has created for itself. Perhaps these people Are a major source of the problem. Ultimately ignorance was the cause of this problem. In t it True that there is a Sim ple solution to any problem created by ignorance i am not writing to provide the Solu Tion. I am writing to give perhaps a Sim ple guideline to coming up with solutions. Until the human race As a whole can learn new and exciting ways from each other we can never claim that we have society As a whole. People believe others Don t belong be cause of the Way they look and act. They must realize they Are teaching the next generation that All they need to do is hate others to prove they Are better. We All have our own solution. I believe it is time to use it. Richard Dangle Kitzinger Germany editor s note letters from readers expressing their View Points or opinions Are published daily on this Page. Alt 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 Castro plans pitch for foreign investment by John Rice the revolution rvs defiant cry was the same As always socialism or death fatherland or death we will Triumph but the message Fidel Castro brought to the 40th birthday party of the revolution was that Cuba must scramble for dollars just about any Way it can hoping that a touch of capitalism today can save socialism until  remains adamantly opposed to multiparty elections and has vowed to maintain Cuba s Universal free health care and education As Well As Basic food rations and a centrally planned Economy. Even so he outlined a series of Mea sures to lure foreign funds and invest ment. Some were not new but they we represented As part of an Overall Detour from the pure socialist path Castro would prefer to tread. We Are ready to do everything Nec Essary to save the country the revolution and the conquests of socialism he said. He was even More Blunt in a speech Toa gathering of latin american leftists. No one can pretend that the objective or subjective conditions Are favourable for the construction of  the Leader who once sponsored armed revolt in other latin american states urged former guerrilla colleague against armed revolution at this to  instead he urged a United fight against conservative economic  s imports have plummeted Al most 80 percent since the fall of socialist states in Eastern  said cubans would soon be allowed to legally own foreign currency and spend it at Welt stocked special stores. Many cubans have dollars culled from Money sent by relatives abroad from tourist tips from jobs with foreign businesses or from illegal deals. He said Cuba will strengthen efforts to attract foreign businesses and tourists. Between 500,000 and 600,000 Are expected in Cuba this year Many to visit posh new hotels run by Spanish German mexican or jamaican companies. In the Long run Castro said cubans Hope to introduce a convertible currency such As that used in China. With food fertilizer shoes fuel and Al most everything else in Short Supply at official stores the state run sector of Cuba s Economy is near collapse. Yet a free Market is flourishing. It ranges from Legal Small scale co Mercein fishing farming and handicrafts to the Black Market and some Export industries. Castro called it an escape  c tha associated press