European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday decembers 1993 bites of news on lets try to muscle our Way through the Days news jointly in search of a coherent meaning to it All. Front Page president Clinton gives a stirring address aimed at critics of his aids policies. What he says boils Down to this that the relevant specialists Are working hard to come up with something that will fight his that the sympathy of the whole county is behind the movement to fight it and that if one is looking for Silver linings in the situation we find them precisely there in the nations sympathy for those who Are suf Fering. He cites two people he knows personally who have died of aids. Two women. They contracted the disease from blood contaminated with the human immunodeficiency virus. Front Page the majority of the commissioners of round Rock Texas inform Apple computer that under the circumstances they will not extend those favors they had previously voted to extend. The circumstances Are that the computer manufacturer extends health Protection policies to unwed companions of its work Force and also to live in Gay lovers. The favor now withdrawn is a tax abatement. Round Rock had said in effect to Apple look if you will establish your new factory in our jurisdiction we will forgo any tax on the first $750,000 of your operations property value. Inside Page a pregnant teen agers Are outcasts no  that is the headline and the Lead is a in the a old Days of the 1960s, �?T50s and �?T40s, pregnant teenagers were pariahs banished from schools ostracized by their Peers or scurried out of town to give birth in secret.�?�. But the reporter acknowledges that although permissiveness is now the practice it is True that there is residual worry about it. A a a i m glad the old Days of wearing the Scarlet a pm Are gone Quot or. Schuldt the father of six added a but today commentary the stars and stripes Pago 15 Worms William f. Buckley teen pregnancy is r like it Stone Norm a is being treated like its no big thing an 18-year-Otd freshman is quoted a a there amp no reason to mistreat a girl who is pregnant like she has some contagious  since More than 70 percent of those who contract aids do so via sex Why does it not make sense in the course of affirming our dedication to fighting the virus explicitly to discourage such sexual activity As risks spreading that virus it is characteristic of the reticence Public figures continue to exhibit on the subject that Clinton should mention As victims of aids Only two women a who contracted the disease from diseased blood. If there is to be a National movement to decrease lung cancer there has got to be a National movement to discourage cigarette smoking. In the absence of targeted pressure against the primary cause of infection As the French would put it a society is not Quot serious in facing the problem. The nearest we come to zeroing in on it is to advertise the usefulness of condoms. But the emphasis is usually on birth prevention. Condoms Are 90 percent effective in guarding against Conception but far less than that in guarding against aids. It is quite True that in the a old Days pregnant teenagers were removed discreetly from the scene until after the baby materialized. It is also True that in the old Days a the three decades referred to a the illegitimacy rate among Whites was one third what it is today among Blacks about one half. One third of the babies born last year were born to a single Parent family. That phenomenon which Breeds poverty drug consumption illiteracy and crime would presumably be affected if pregnant teen agers were not lionized by their Peers but rather made to feel the disappointment and indeed disgust one would show toward a teen Ager who gave evidence of racial prejudice. There will always be the aggressive boy and the girl who made a mistake. What matters is that she acknowledge it As a mistake and that others guard against making the same mistake. 1 we arc accustomed to railing against the vice of  but when a City in Texas says that it is willing to forgo the construction of an,$80 million Complex rather than to bring into the neighbourhood a business establishment that officially subsidizes family practices that Are viewed by the Community As corrupt we Are invited not to Admire an exertion of the moral will but to think of it As evidence of extreme parochialism. Nobody in round Rock Texas is asking the police to Barge into Motel rooms and private apartments. The commissioners arc merely saying that they do not want to encourage on their premises a commercial institution that extends special protections to those who produce illegitimate children and scorn family morality. Have you figured it out 1 Haven t. C Una Vorasai pros synd Cato ousted Deputy was knifed in Back the first he knew that his rep Ilion was to be besmirched and his Ca Eer in government ended was when he Ead the one paragraph notice of Pend in oblivion. T it was one of those a sourced pieces of nastiness that have moved from the gut or press to infest some big time journals the knife in the dark handed Over by in unseen assailant to an unnamed Jour la list to inflict the wound fast deep and this one appeared in Newsweek front of the Book gossip column. It said be was a widely regarded Quot As a prickly and unreliable a that his Boss was exasperated with him that the White House a consensus Quot was that he did not fit in ind that there were a rumblings Quot of a big shake up a apparently confined to him. Clifton r. Wharton jr., until re entry Deputy Secretary of state is not arrogant but does know his Worth. Else he would not have achieved what he had a two decades of internationally acclaimed an the spot work helping the economies of asian and latin american countries and service under four prior presidents then the presidency of Michigan state University in East Lansing and the chancellors hip of the whole Public University system of new York state plus ignition As one of the five to amp influential University presidents. Yes and then a third major career a chairman and chief executive officer of the third largest insurance company in America running the biggest private pension fund in the world. Of course doing All that he became the a first Black Quot this and a the first Black Quot that. The Clinton people reached for him. He saw Hope in the new administration. He left the world of cos and accepted the second spot under Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher. Then after nine months Public humiliation and the held open door. Wharton a still does not know what hit him. But pieced together it is a Story of How an administration failed to do its duty to itself and an american achiever. Maybe the administration did not see the duty. Maybe it did not seem Worth the trouble. Christophers first Choice As Deputy would have been a Veteran foreign policy expert. . Rosenthal but he accepted the White House decision a Wharton was hardly unknown or inexperienced in foreign a affairs. Christopher outlined Wharton a duties to him foreign Aid and departmental management. Mind the shop while i am gone. But soon Christophers confidants knew he was not Happy a the a chemistry Quot was wrong. Then whispers suddenly this world known achiever in t smart does no to work hard a know what i mean then the state department is Quot Cril seized for its handling of Bosnia and Herzegovina Somalia and Haiti. Christopher tells president Clinton changes Are needed. His candidate a a Wharton who had nothing to do with handling the crises. Wharton had not been brought into policy matters. Christophers mistake. Good Soldier Wharton accepted that a his mistake. Policy is the real business of the state department. If you Are not doing policy you might As Well work for the Post office. The tarnishing rumours appeared. Wharton confronted Christopher who admitted dissatisfaction Wharton resigned speedily. The biggest mistake was made by All those at state or the White House president on Down who knew of the jump Wharton move dumping is easy. The Job should have been to keep the Man Tell him what was wrong bring him in closer a not out of consideration but administration self interest in holding onto a world known human asset. Government clerks should receive Wiser handling from stockroom managers. So who cares Wharton has some Money 1 assume a new York apartment and a country House. Company boards will besiege him. But people with outstanding lifetime records May consider the Wharton Case if they Are asked to work in the administration. They May consider that after giving up their jobs taking pay cuts and going through Security examinations they will still have to pass a chemistry test. If they fail they May not know until they pick up some Anonymous column. A the process to which i Hae been subjected in the Long run damages the presidency and government More than the individual  Wharton wrote that in his resignation letter to the president. Since then i am told the administration considers he has behaved like a perfect Prince. C the or York time