European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12letters to the editor monday december 27,1993 thes Isa ipes european edition col. Steven s. Hoffman Usan a publish of Burnaro a. Zov1stosk1 editor a. News and editorial Deborah Abaha Newt editor 0111 Walker european editor 000 wac car sports editor Gorga Manaay City editor to write us unit �9480 Apoate 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37 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 Jami Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, . 104, �9126 Het Volborg car 419, to 1310, Apo a 09102 Tole Phona Dan 370-7010 or civilian 0622793421 Tota fru 06221-27239. Kaiserslautern Germany Kevin Dougherty John. 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Voo avg or i Ivr 1-0144 in>4 i i7 Dejai by of dr�?T-.44 i 1 e sax a >3 s on or rec 7.-Kevorkian a killer. \ the writer of a Praise for a hero . 18 mentions a archaic moral what exactly is meant by that that he Quot vast number of people opposed to physician assisted suicides Are outdated and Don t know what they re talking about i find something basically wrong with the thought that a person who is trained to save lives uses Nis knowledge to end them. Please forgive me if in a being a a archaic Here. Instead Why done to these people who Are obviously suffering greatly go out because they weren to bedridden after All and hire some professional killer to do them in of wait that a exactly what or. Jack Kevorkian is doing now in t he and hey he a free. I am personally offended at the statement that people who oppose Kevorkian a a actions have Quot obviously never experienced the horror of watching a Loyed one waste away before their i have. The writer mocks the amazing strength of will i witnessed and was incredibly proud of for so very Long. What a marvelous fellow Kevorkian is. Lets put his name up in lights right beside time magazines main of the decade former soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his a Black berets of lithuanian protester killing Fame. The Man s a killer preying upon the weak and desperate. A pfc. Zackry c. Lanphere Raben Hauson Germany a a. America is a theocracy separation of Powers Between legislature judicial and Congress or parliament and the Correct balance Between them is the hallmark of All democratic countries in the West. All nato countries practice it to More or less an equal degree. The Only practical differences Are in whether they arc Republican democracies where the head of government is also the head of state As in France and America or parliamentary democracies where the head of government is not the head of state As in Germany and England. In theory this is still the practice in America but in reality a very different situation has dead Toped the founding fathers declared that religion should. Have no place in the government of the country but should be solely the concern of the individual citizen to practice As he and she saw fit. But people often need a religion As a unifying Force. In a multiethnic Multi Cul Turat and Multi religious America the absence of a single unifying religion created a vacuum therefore a state religion had to be America the holy Book is the written Constitution. Its clergy Are the graduates of its religious schools and Law schools. The grand ayatollahs or card nals of the american state religion Are the supreme court justices. The multitudinous layers of state justices beneath them Are the mullahs. The arguments conducted Over present Day interpretations of the Constitution Are religious in their Fervour and As destructive. America is also the Only Western country where its military officers take an oath to defend the state religion. America has become a theocracy in every Way comparable to Iran in its internal method of government. A James Stuart is Fortal Germany. A a military life no picnic ill be the first one to agree that the military has its benefits but in my family the benefits do not outweigh the reasons for leaving the army. My husband is a specialist in the army with 3/325th act. So naturally he is gone for very Long periods of time in the Field. Military life is no picnic for spouses children and especially the Soldier. My husband barely earned $13,000 last year. We find ourselves borrowing on next month s paycheck almost every month. Our 2-year-old daughter also suffers a lot being without her daddy for approximately six months out of the year without her grandparents or even a Yard to play in. Airborne life makes it very difficult to be a secure family. Out marriage has had Many strains and t would say 85 percent of the cause was Job related. Thank goodness we ets expiration of term of service in january. So the real question is. Is military life really Worth it a mrs. Jamie s. Bates Vicenza Italy a a a thanks for help i read today that you were asking for tetters. This is a Busy time of year so in a not surprised that no one has written. I too am Busy with the holidays but wanted to take time to thank a Good Samaritan who helped me when my car stalled on a Busy intersection in Naples Italy. The area is called suicide Corner by americans which should give some indication of How things appear there it was neither a Good place or Good time to be stranded As i had a Friend her Young baby and a Carload of toys recently rescued from layaway. Cars were honking and no one was stopping to help until a Serviceman named . Jordan according to his name tag stopped helped us push the car to the Side followed me to the base and called my husband to let him know where i was and what my situation was. The support he gave made a difficult situation More bearable. A Deborah Tilley Gaeta Italy editors note the Holiday season has produced a shortage of tetters so this feature has been abbreviated. We encourage our readers especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us expressing viewpoints or opinions that Are published daily on this Page. Alt tetters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480. Apo a 09211. Commentary data superhighway leads to appliance War by Eric Zicklin the data superhighway Isnit even built yet or paved or wired or whatever its going to take to make that euphemism a reality but my appliances Are already engaged in a full scale w a. There had been some tension around the apartment of months As each of my household machines nervously followed the rumours and predictions about the data superhighway and agonized Over whether they would have a place in the interactive future. Id carelessly leave a copy of Forbes under the desk lamp at night open to the technology column fool that i am and by morning every electronic device 1 own gossips that they Are would be so terrified about whatever synergistic Gizmo the Magazine was touting that they a perform Tike Clumsy wind by hand amateurs a warm Tan water from the Coffee maker Rowdy bonfires from the toaster that sort of thing. The clock radio was the first to entirely succumb to the pressure. 1 think Bob Edwards mentioned a music libraries on de Mand Quot once too often on National Public radios morning edition and my longtime bedside companion snapped spinning frantically through its digital Cycle. Next was was the answering machine. Atter watching a television news report about email and its growing use in personal computers i thought i heard a groan from my trusty phone mate. Sure enough the next Day i began receiving messages such As a hello Quot is this thing on and a if you get this message your machine is totally before the callers were Cut off. My answering machine was apparently threatened by what it thought was a budding Romance Between the computer and the phone. How naive that suspicion proved to be As last months news of the Bell Atlantic Tele communications merger dramatically revealed that the phone was in fact planning a tryst with the television All along its been War among Niy appliances Ever since that announcement and none of them has been More aggressive than the Var. Undeniably the biggest loser in the phone to marriage the Var is enraged. Some of the household devices actually believe the computers boasts that it will prove to be the phones ultimate partner. But All of the gadgets that i own a other than the Var of course and the Lovesick pc a Are playing it Safe and staunchly aligning themselves with the powerful new phone to Axis. Life in my apartment has become deafening. Like i said its War. C tha Washington Post i Post set Csc j 51 sue we a Necta a j the a -.402 but to Vitus pr&v5 7e&us his Putni to or at.ltf/75fz7= it Ith a the tvvv15 a Natl he Gmvtathap-f�nfr/7hma7h, As Mayr
