European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14j letters to the editor sunday december 12.1993 thes 6ufop�n edition col Steven a. Hoffman Usan a  put Tetor i Bernard a. Zovi Rosw editor a news and editorial a a a waft. European editor  Bob Lehar news editor sport editor of Aorta manat City editor to White us unit 29480 apoae0921i or Postrach 1114 3j& 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155 601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension of Dan 3480 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237,255,282,226,326. Sports ext. 225,269,263,332,32t, 221. Features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext. 206. Education Jim Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus . German to aard own room 117. A Baro pm 419 Boa 131s,  q1wmahy Kwan Doug Tyty John 03n 486569 or emt. Jan 083152104 tata Faa 063140696. S  Ron jaw. But Kane 21. We Chaam Apo a 09229 Tala Nona 0sn 460-7286 or cnjfcm0911-712963 Tampa 0911-717130. 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Civilian 0090-1-272 48 43, Lel tax 0090-1-274 09.tco kingdom hence Ter civilian 0285-713-637, Dan 247-4445.  Guy Germany 06165401247 or 601309, Dan 348 5sifieo Germany 06155-601349 Dan 348-6349. Ert Ising Tel fax 06155-601412 please Recycle a a la a an Eui Hollied unofficial publication Lemert erf the military services oversees. Contents of. M 1363 00 001 necessarily reflect the official non,2f orse Meni by the . Government the deem of defense or the u a. European command a  in the a Publ Calion Indus r tar Rwy to it in s d004 001 constitute endorse Eso than?,6r&Quot a a dear a of the stars and is or the products or services Edo raised. A tree non i am writing in response to "1 smoking Reward .2. I have never written a response to anything before but t could not Stop and let this go by. This was one of the most idiotic suggestions i have Ever heard. Because you personally made the Choice not to smoke Why should you Benefit on a re Ward having nothing to do with you because you did no to use your ration card to Purchase tobacco a and Why did you Stop at tobacco what about liquor and Coffee these items Are rationed and Are not beneficial to an individual. If you done to use your ration card and want a personal Reward since you believe its Only for cigarettes save a tree and done to bother renewing it. That a your personal Reward for the environment. A William j. Paul Frankfurt Germany a a Limbaugh unlimited thank you for your on going articles concerning afro so refusal to air Rush Limbaugh s radio or television shows. Editors note since this letter was written arts has announced that ten tatic agreement has been reached to carry Limbaugh a radio program. I feel that afro so claim that his show is not balanced is merely a ploy to avoid airing a show moderated by a person who is critical of the current president and his administration. Many people claim that if the Rush Limbaugh show were aired on an and other arts stations that troop morale and the military a effectiveness in Cany ing out the commander in chiefs orders would be undercut. I believe that claim is totally ridiculous. What about the shows that an currently airs that done to show the president in a perfect Light should arts censor programs that done to portray the president Well in a sure the critics of or. Lim Baugh t done to advocate censorship but that is in fact what they Are advocating. Just imagine what an uproar woul atol Low if Bill Clinton jokes were censored on late night with David Letterman or the tonight show with Jay Leno. In a sure both television networks would be appalled at afro so editing their programs. Why should things Stop there inc stars and stripes has shown the president in bad Light by carrying William f. Buckley and other commentaries the comics Are not always politically Cor met either and finally inc letters to the editor should never have carried any Gays in the military letters much less letters critical of the president himself. This Means news wires such asap up and Reuters would have to be a a cleaned of negative stories about the president. The stars and stripes bookstores currently carry the Way things ought to be and hopefully soon see / told you so. Should these books be kept from the military readers maybe instead of Selling these books at the military bookstores everyone should form a Circle around a Large pile of these books and Burn them of course none of these measures would be politically motivated just As Secretary of defense Les Aspin assured or. Limbaugh he Wasny to the victim of political games another claim arts makes is that its Survey showed that listeners Are not interested in a news commentary radio format. 1 would like to know Why an carries so Many hours of nothing but news and commentary every Day from 0500 through 0900 with . Edition from 12001300 with National Public radio a morning edition and from 23002400 with a  Sah things considered. All these programs air on the Power network while Zim provides an listeners with music. I feel that this also invalidates arts claim of having Only one signal i realize that arts is limited in the amount of satellite feed time it has however it seems that there is enough time to allocate at least two hours daily for the talk news commentary radio shows. Misten to the apr program quite frer Quentlyn and have found that they do tend to lean toward the politically left an Independent review of a  a programs has shown As republicans have insisted for years that apr does maintain a Liberal political stance. On the an television Side Abc s nightlife is aired at 2305 weeknights. Any can to arts Supply an the Rush Limbaugh television show and air it directly after night line would this not provide balance Ted Koppes program focuses on the current events As does or. Limbaugh. Finally i realize that it is unrealistic to expect an to air All three hours of the Limbaugh radio show and the Limbaugh television show but i feel strongly that or. Limbaugh should be permitted to share his viewpoints in some manner to the military audience. A Thomas Hoffecker Mannheim Germany the Rue face of asthma on november-30 you ran an article to tied a breathe easy asthma sufferers a by Steve scholar. I have had asthma for several years. Are we talking about the same disease the article talks about asthma like its acne just a nuisance. Wrong. It is a life threatening disease and the Shoff family have been labelled Quot experts at coping with  they look like a Nice enough family but what kind of expertise can Stop the attacks that done to respond to medications i used to think that a trip to the emergency room was a sure bet. Then on october 26,1993, in san an Tomo Texas i said my final goodbye to my dear Friend Derek Pfeffer. He was 20 years old and he died on the Way to the or. The medications did no to help. The Ems and doctors could t help. He had had serious trouble with his asthma before but he had been doing everything just As he was instructed to. His doctors were As shocked As anybody else. This is the True face of asthma. It is a brutal unpredictable disease. Anybody who tells vie otherwise will be fooling himself. I can to buy it anymore. Dec. 13 would have been Derek a 21st birthday. I will miss him for the rest of my life and i Hope that i never get As sick As he was several months prior to his death but in a not betting on it i stopped be he veg m Santa Claus a Long time ago. Now i done to believe in miracles. A Julie a. Negrete Lan Stuhl Germany Cross violation of rights for the first time an anti gun White House is in Power with anti gun politicians in Congress. For the first time Power hungry Federal bureaucrats have ganged up with gun hungry enemies of the fundamental rights to protect ourselves and our families. Then the Media exploits this with their blinded Bias showing hatred for you and other Law abiding gun owners and reserving its greatest Praise for the attack on your rights u never before has such political Power been brought about to stifle the second amendment. Lost in the Battle Are not just those who fought and died for our Constitution but the victims of crime. To add to that Are some 1.2 million annually who keep from becoming victims because they Are armed. To these americans the second amendment is the right to say no to a criminal predator. On 11 March 1993, president Clinton said in Usa today a we can to be so fix ated on our desire to preserve the rights of Ordinary americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles. That we Are unable to think about reality. In reality crime victims have no rights. When crime threatens every american family americans demand that the nation a chief Law enforcement officer be a fighter whose  on criminals never fal1-ters and whose Faith with crime victims is never broken. In fact attorney general Janet Reno a stand is quite the contrary. In an interview on lbs Paula Zahn raised the Issue of self defense. Reno responded with a Smirk this Bill is designed to get deadly assault weapons out of the hands of  we As americans can do something about violent crime. If Only this nation would Rise up and Tell Janet Reno and All the other anti gun politicians of the . To take their atred of the 3.2 million Law abiding citizens and Channel it against the violent criminals and treatment programs for the crime victims. That probably makes too much sense though. Politicians like sen. Howard Metzon Baum and rep. Charles Schumer have aimed for your guns before und now their plan has presidential Power. Metzenbaum a s.653 gives the Treasury department the Power to ban any Semi automatic firearm at the discretion of a political appointee elected by no one. Sen. Dennis Deconcini a s.639/h.r.1472 bans self loading firearms too. Metzenbaum said during the 3 August 1993, hearing a until we ban All of them we might As Well ban none. A politicians not Only have the Power to ban the guns millions of the Law abiding citizens own but the ammunition used for self defense. Sen. Daniel Moynihan a s.178 prohibits the manufacture or Transfer of most handgun ammunition As Well As his s.179 that puts 1000 percent Federal tax on this ammunition. This is hidden in the violent crime prevention act if you re wealthy you have rights. If you re poor you re dead. Congressman Robert Torricelli in h.r.544 wants to make it a Federal crime for anyone to Purchase More than one handgun per  before have americans faced a . President so Adamant on stifling the second amendment of the Constitution at the expense of crime victims. Also never before has the director of the nation s Premier Law enforcement Agency so openly expressed support for the strongest infringement on the second amendment rights. For the Bill of rights american Histo is beginning a new chapter. U All americans will stand Strong together and write our senators and congressmen its very realistically possible we can change this Gross violation of our constitutional rights. 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