European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12i letters to the editor saturday december 11,1993 thes european edition Coc Steven s. Hoffman up command put tsar Bernard a. Zolt Toszt editor a. News end editorial pm Whir Eum peso editor Bobbi car door Gowan now editor sport editor City editor to write us unit 29480 Apoate 09211 Orphos Tacti 111437 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us Din 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 Al Tel Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany to weft on room 117, mar to. 104,69126 car 41�, to 1316, a Apo a 09102 temp Hon Dan 370-7010 or Chan 06221-23421 tintes 08221-27239. 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Including insert or supplements Doe not constitute endorsement by the department cd defense or the Star and St Nae of the product a or services much to ask pie article "u.s. Military enlisting its 1st Muslim chaplain . 4misrepresented the facts. The article purported that the new Muslim chaplain May be called on Quot occasionally to conduct religious services for protestants catholics or jews in line with traditional practice in the armed Many religious people in the armed services Are already concerned about the appropriateness of the person who is conducting their religious services. Some of the faithful would faint Over the idea that a Muslim chaplain would be conducting a jewish or Christian service. This would undoubtedly please a god who created a world of diversity. However having people excited about such diversity would be too much to ask the fact is that the faithful won t have to worry about a Muslim administering the eucharist or Reading from torah. Although chaplains participate in ecumenical services with one another no non Catholic chaplain would conduct a Catholic service or rabbi conduct a protestant service and so Forth. This is just not done. A. I am not a Muslim but i think its a Good step for our army chaplain corps to enter the american reality of religious diversity. There is no statistical reason for the Long standing jewish Christian monopoly in the chaplain corps. The numbers of muslims in the military quoted in the article Are suprisingly4 High especially since Many muslims Are hidden to statisticians. Many avoid registering As Muslim because of the fear of being singled out especially in Basic training. Statisticians can to see the Many people who were raised with Muslim principles who no longer formally identify with their religion. Then when times get rough such As in Basic training or Warno one is there for Many muslims no one is giving out free korans As we do bibles. Our first Muslim chaplain May help change a editors note 1 the Holiday season has produced a shortage of letters so this feature has been abbreviated. I in place of letters Well present comments by Pur stable of columnists. Meanwhile we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us expressing viewpoints or opinions that Are published daily on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference is Given to Shorter tetters so that More can be published in a timely manner. We Reserve else right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29460, apoae09211. This and help us to uphold our own Constitution. A capt. Mark word Frankfurt German Stop focusing on Russia i a writing to express my agreement Ukraine support. A a 0clearly feel that the United states should _ agr with Quot give Ukraine support nov. 16 and Quot survivor syndrome Quot nov. 25. I Stop pressuring Ukraine Belarus and Kazakhstan into giving up their nuclear weapons. For the time being these nations need their Arsenal to defend themselves from an unstable Russia. What Side would the United states take if Russia were to decide to use Force for reunification with these former republics last month i visited the Republic of Belarus. It is unbelievable How russian president Boris a Yeltsin Ana Russia Are suffocating this former Republic. Food is scarce and Petroleum has vanished due to russians Lack of cooperation. 1 strongly believe it is a tactic in which Russia is using against the former republics to make them regret tie break up of the soviet Union and. Perhaps to make them consider reunification. I think that the Clinton administration should be pressuring Yeltsin to improve his relations and Trade with the former republics including the speedy withdrawal of russian troops which Only Lithuania has succeeded in doing. I can Only Hope that the Clinton administration Wilt not be so Blind and will open its eyes to the other nations of the former soviet Union. Stop focusing on Yeltsin and Russia and give some assistance and support to the former republics which truly would like to have free democratic societies. A Sean Sauter Caltagirone Italy a a a a citizens need those guns they come under All pretences and try to make you believe that they Are hot anti gun. They will try anything to make us believe that private citizens done to have the right to own a gun. There Are two reasons Why no nation would Ever try a conventional armed assault on the . Mainland first and Foremost no one is crazy enough to want to take on the worlds most powerful and technologically advanced armed forces in their own they know that even if they managed to somehow defeat or circumvent our armed forces they would have to contend with an armed population. There Are millions of guns in households throughout the United states. Thousands More Are added every year. I Only see a problem with a very limited number of individuals. So Why try to put me and every other legitimate gun owner in the same class As those few 1 think that the anti gun folks should take a Long hard look at their rhetoric and get rid of that useless idea that guns Are the roof of crime. A staff sgt. George Luccas. Fulda Germany commentary Kevorkian weakens anti suicide scruples by Elizabeth Kristol the Fate of Quot suicide doctor Quot Jack Kevorkian remains Uncertain. But Kevorkian and his allies have already won a key Victory. They have successfully blurred the Issue of the assisted suicide movements representation of its Mission to protect the individuals personal autonomy in matters of life and death. Efforts to thwart assisted suicide its proponents would have us believe threaten our right to make crucial decisions about the Quality of our lives and the nature of our deaths As one of the religious leaders in the movement recently told the new York times Quot suffering people have the right to yet the Quot right to choose Quot is precisely what assisted suicide is not about. The unique service offered by professional suicide assistants is actually an escape from the Burden of autonomous Choice. Kevorkian and others provide not simply release from pain a surely unassisted suicide is just As effective at that a but release from the fear and ambivalence surrounding death and dying. After the sixth of Kevorkian a assisted suicides up to then All women one psychiatrist was quoted As saying Quot its astounding to me that people Well enough to travel from one state to another done to go to a drug store and get enough medication to put themselves out. The idea of having someone comforting them at this time and somebody who is a Symbol of Power within the system May be what it takes for these women to go ahead and do this is an uncomfortably Blunt comment on a delicate subject. But the truth is that it is a squeamish business to take ones life a Ana thank goodness for that. It is just this squeamishness that keeps the vast majority of desperate people from committing suicide. It seems that even when life appears to be without Hope the fear of dying stays ones hand. This profound revulsion at the physical act of effecting ones own death is not simply an unfortunate impediment to the efficient planning of our jives. It is an essential part of our humanity and a powerful manifestation of the persistent desire to live. It is interesting to observe that the would be suicides who turn to Kevorkian for assistance did not persuade close family members Many of whom Are at their deathbed along with Kevorkian to do the final deed. Nor did they pursue the opposite path of contracting with an impersonal gun Fot hire. Presumably the former course might give Rise to haunting doubts after the fact while the latter would seem too sordid. The soothing presence of a doctor keeps these natural qualms from asserting themselves. Kevorkian and other suicide assistants do not minister to the suffering. Neither do they truly promote the personal autonomy of the terminally ill. Their goal is far less Noble and far More Radical the undermining of those scruples that up until now have kept suicide both rare and tragic. Cytha Washington Post four shooters spam at least . Among 1 the co conspirators Black dog Man a a badge Man Quot Tex Man a cum amp Reha Man. Alono tilth Jack Ruby Jim Hicks lamp a the Fri cd a Maria Kab and the cubans. Is Juk as5a55jm7hn Oswald to framed then rued for Good measure number of conspire i awes hundreds. \
