European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 16, 1994 what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United states. The editorials Are provided by the associated press and United press International. Seattle Post intelligencer the Federal government s new anti ads television ads Are a step Forward from the feeble efforts of years  for the first time the Public service ads openly promote condoms to reduce the spread of the killer epidemic. The ads Are respectful of popular taste no condom is shown outside its package and no couple is identifiably Gay but the message is Clear that the use of Latex condoms saves lives. The times Union Albany . To combat the spread of aids new York City schools have been passing out condoms on demand to students in Public High schools. Critics contended the program would More Likely Send a tacit message of approval for teen age sex than curtail a deadly disease. Advocates insisted that since some teens will have sex anyway they should be As safely protected from aids As possible. Now a state appellate court has come Down on the Side of the critics but in a Way that puts this whole controversy in its proper perspective. In ruling against the distribution program the court found that the third party parents were left out of the process violating both their constitutional rights and state health Laws that require parental consent for health services to minors. Why not emphasize aids education in the classroom rather than turn schools into condom distribution centers Pittsburgh Post Gazette How much More pressure can be placed on smokers to overcome their addiction already confronted with entirely smoke free buildings a nicotine addict could always look upon his automobile As a Sanctuary in which he was free to indulge to his lung s Content. Starting next year however if a smoker drives a Chrysler Sedan hell find himself without an ashtray to use unless he has ordered one As an optional design feature. With smokers accounting for Only about 17 percent of new car buyers Chrysler decided to give up the ashtray space to an amenity that is now More in demand a cup Holder. One More Refuge up in ashes. St. Louis Post dispatch the Atlantic coast was once one of the great repositories Offish in the world Home to enormous numbers of sea weakfish sea Bass flounder blues spot croakers Shad and herring. No More. As a result of massive overfishing catches of nearly every species Are Down 70 percent or More in the last decade los Angeles times b Selem the israeli human rights group whose monitoring of abuses of palestinians by israeli authorities often arouses official ire has now taken a Long look at palestinian crimes against palestinians and issued a report that raises uncomfortable questions for both the Palestine liberation organization and the government of Israel. In Brief its elem finds that Over the last six years As Many As 950 palestinians in the Gaza strip and West Bank were murdered by other palestinians Many after being tortured. Virtually All were alleged to have collaborated with israeli occupation authorities. In fact its elem found most had not. The Blade Toledo Ohio an Ohio supreme court decision in the final Days of 1993 hit close to Home for the state s homeowners. As close As the sidewalk in fact. The stars and stripes Page 15 for years residents of Many Ohio cities have assumed a certain obligation to shovel their paths and sidewalks within 24 hours of a snowfall. Should they not do so and a passer by or guest were to fall and be injured a lawsuit was sure to follow. Well not any More says the state s highest court. Writing the opinion for the court Justice Andy Douglas says everyone knows when it snows the ground can become Slippery so a natural accumulation does not automatically put a Homeowner at risk., in a society mad with litigation fever the decision is a Victory for common sense. The Boston Globe North Korea s program to develop nuclear weapons in violation of the nuclear non proliferation treaty constitutes a global threat. This is not an Issue to be resolved by splitting the difference Between Washington and Pyongyang or by postponing decisions that could be politically risky. If the Clinton admin station persists in such a dilatory approach it runs the far greater risk of failing to deter nuclear proliferation. The Sun Baltimore in dealing with a country As paranoid and militarily powerful As North Korea the United states has to be careful not to goad it into an attack on South Korea with the incalculable damage . Casualties that would cause. Yet Washington cannot allow the Pyongyang regime to capitalize on its irrationality by defying International rules to Stop the spread of nuclear weapons. The Providence . Journal the Clinton administration has done Well to shoot at the gun Trade in a very painful place the Wallet. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen wants to raise the Federal fee for firearms dealers to $600, from the current ridiculously Low $66. He asserts the increase would discourage at least 70 percent of the 284,000 people who now have Federal gun sales licenses from renewing them especially if they Are not legitimate dealers with shops. Most Are not their stores May be car trunks. The higher fee would also help pay for stronger regulation. The sunday oklahoman if members of Congress go along with the Clinton plan to raise gun dealers License fes by 60 times they will be co conspirators in killing 200,000 Small businesses. It is part of a frightening pattern of administration actions to disarm Law abiding citizens and make them a. More vulnerable to armed criminals. The Cincinnati enquirer it s time for lawmakers to give people what they want no nonsense no loophole common sense crime Laws. Let s Start with tougher prison sentences that offenders actually serve. Longer sentences May increase costs for prisons but that s a Price most Are willing to pay for safer streets. San Francisco chronicle Congress must recognize that the More than 2 million aliens who have evaded Federal Border controls and entered California illegally Are a National responsibility. The answer to the problem does not lie in denying Basic human services but in recognizing that there Are Bills to be paid and that californians should not be burdened with the costs of sheltering 52 percent of the people in this country illegally. Ithe Sun Herald by lox Gulfport miss. A Clinton administration spokesman said the Public health service is taking another look at its ban on marijuana for medical use. The review and reversal of the present policy is Long overdue. Legalizing marijuana for medical uses under the same prescription strictures that govern other More powerful medications is a sensible course. The Dally times Farmington . Further evidence the russian giant is alive and dangerous was brought Home by the action of extremist Vladimir a Mirinovsky when he called president Clinton a Coward. Not Only did the russian nationalist Tell Clinton to stay Home and play his sax. A Mirinovsky also threatened Japan with a blockade said France and Germany were sucking up to russian president Boris Yeltsin and called the West Rotten and  Welcome to the end of the cold War. Fort Worth Texas Star Telegram in All of Europe plus North America there is still Only one country that could conceivably act As an aggressor against the traditional members of the North Atlantic treaty organization or against the former soviet bloc nations of Eastern Europe. That nation is Russia inheritor of most of the Power remaining from the soviet Union which after All posed the threat to Europe that led to nato