European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 letters to the editor thursday january 6,1994 thes is and i a Xan i Aas european edition col Stevens Hoffman Usan commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski. Editor news and editorial Deborah aether news editor Bill Walker european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George Menei City editor. To write us unit 29480 apoae09211 Orost Facell 1437 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 Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext 326v new bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, rame str. 104, 69126 Heidelberg car 419, Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421 Tel fax 06221-27239. 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The appearance of advertising in this publication including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorse ment by the department of defense or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised. A woman s world in response to and nausea i would just like to say Welcome to the world of women. The complaints and emotions expressed Are a part of everyday life for Many women. This letter sounds exactly like what feminists have been saying for years. How much better relations be tween women and men would be if More men experienced the receiving end of the messages society sends women. As i reread the letter a second an third time i replaced the word Hus band with wife and i just laughed be cause if a woman had written exactly what he did chances Are sire might hear of there she goes again raving Femi nist hysterical female if you Don t like the commercials Don t watch if Only it were that easy. For me the letter brings into Sharp focus the reality of How relevant things become when seen through one s own eyes and experienced firsthand. I wholly support the idea of people getting involved writing letters making phone Calls in Short being heard. It is Only through the voices of Many that things will begin to change for men an women. Cindy Stone Heidelberg Germany try volunteering in response to the letter writer who griped about the an to commercial where the stars and stripes Carrier at tempts to collect Money for Home delivery i too have seen this commercial on numerous occasions but i applaud their efforts to try and please the entire View ing audience. Granted i consider the majority Offan s commercials to be weak and Bor however i can Tell you that the Yare not sexist biased or offensive unless you Are extremely most if not All carriers attend school on a regular basis and Are unable to col Lect during the Day when Many people Aren t Home anyway. They usually try to collect in the evening when people Bot military and dependent Are most Likely to be Home. People who take things out of context just to find them offensive and use them As an excuse to be upset Are a Large part of the entire racism sexism and Igno Rance problem. We All have better things to do than listen to people who Are pee Vishy sensitive and waste time whining about How sexist an commercials this is what you spend your time doing you need to get a life and find some thing constructive to do. Try volunteering in your Community. Deborah Gatrell Heidelberg Germany asthma education we never expected the article on our family dealing with asthma to cause such a response. The basis of the article was Tolet the Community know about the exis tence of the asthma support group Atlan Stuhl Hospital and we were chosen because our family has benefited so much from it. Yes asthma is a serious disease andean be life threatening. Many people die from it and deaths Are increasing. Butone important Factor is that a lot of the deaths Are not necessary. A lot of these deaths Are a result of asthmatics not Tak ing their Medicine correctly and waiting until the attack has become too severe before starting their Medicine and seek ing help. Education on dealing with asthma is the key. The big Factor is a Quick asthma aggressively. There Are times when Home treatment is no enough. Our family incurred two hospitalizations in november because of asthma. There Are going to be cases where modern Medicine in t enough. Janine r. Shoff Ramstein a Germany who Are we to decide while Reading Cal Thomas column Quality of life a dangerous euthanasia go de . 20i found myself thinking his logic was quite reasonable. It is fool ish to Grant anyone the Power to decide i another person s Quality of life is Low enough to have permission to kill him or herself. Where do we expect such reasoning to Lead it also struck me that the idea of some one also making a life or no life Deci Sion for another person based on Quality of life concern bears a Strong similarity to the reasoning that support abortion As a humanitarian option. If this were a Correct conclusion the those of have very difficult life situations should All go ahead and kill Lour selves. This is the same Issue with which individuals having suicidal thoughts and difficult or even horrible life situations Strug " " Are John Doe s circumstances terrible enough for us to allow him to take disown life Are we really so arrogant that we think we have the right to answer these questions apparently we Are. G. Kam Congleton Wiir Burg Germany editor s note the Holiday season has produced a Short age of letters so this feature has been abbreviated " ,. We encourage our readers especially those who have never submitted a letter to write to us expressing viewpoints that Are published this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Tele phone number. Preference is Given to Shorter letters up that More can be published in a timely manner. We Reserve the right to edit let ters for clarity length and taste. Send to let ters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Commentary by Jonathan Schell since the cold War ended the United states and its allies have offered much advice to the former soviet lands but Little tangible support. There has been nothing on the scale of the Marshall plan which supported the reconstruction of Western Europe after world War ii or even on the scale of the Hoover plan much admired in its Day to Aid Europe after world War i. The omission has been part of a broader one the failure to extend european and Ameri can economic and military organizations to include the former communist coun tries. And that omission is part of on broader still the almost unchallenged thoroughly bipartisan and politically pop ular decision virtually to abandon the International Field and concentrate on Domestic affairs instead. The notable exception is Trade policy seen by some As a Spur to american Prosperity the first unmistakable sign that this neglect would have a High Cost came with the civil War in the former Yugoslavia where in a shocking Recrudescence of Europe s blackest traditions Slobodan Milosevic the popularly elected presi Dent of Serbia set about assaulting the neighbouring Peoples of Croatia and bos Nia and Herzegovina. Europe and the United states calculating that the evil would be confined to the former Yugo Slavia did nothing. Now has come the parliamentary Victory of Vladimir v. A Mirinovsky a full fledged russian Milosevic. Milosevic maybe a local has proved not to be. When i come to Power i will ban All political parties a Mirinovsky has said. Hell be a dictator he has wants russian soldiers to Wash their shoes in Southern seas notwithstanding the several Sovereign states such As Afghanistan and Iran that stand in the Way. It goes without saying that he wants to reattach the lands of the soviet Empire to Russia. He has his Eye on the Baltic states As Well As hunks of Poland. The Baltic Region is part of Russia he told a lithuanian newspaper adding i shall exterminate you. I la Bury radioactive waste on your Borders and All the lithuanians will die of radiation a Mirinovsky has not it is True yet fulfilled his ambition to become presi Dent of Russia and we can Hope that he never will. It is also True that neither .foreign policy nor any other country s can in itself determine what happens in rus Sia. However an open handed Well funded program of Aid combined with offers to integrate Russia diplomatically and economically into the Western sphere could offer a measure of rational Hope to millions of russians among whom rational Hope has evidently died. The United states and its allies have been asleep to our interests and responsibilities in the former communist world. I the Prospect of a russian Hitler armed with nuclear weapons cannot awaken us it s hard to imagine what will. C new Day sounds us you us a virus. A appear Anc stimulates Arev Ash which spin h doctors 7h�nhave Tohfung the fever . Ovbr-hea71n6a virus,tf&ofzr1hin6hap How about Peix 7hemzta it just phor any Tuato ,i7t us. Of Ahou . to
