European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16letters to the editor to esd am a 3,1994 european edition col Steven s. Hoffman Usan commander put Fisher Bernard a Zovistoski. Editor a news and Walker a european editor Deborah Absher a news editor. Bob Wolcher sports editor George Manes a City editor a to write us unit 23480. A a a Apo a 09211 a a / or Postrach 1114 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 Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326, news bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen. Room 117, a rim Erst. 104, 69126 Heidelberg car 419, Box 1310, Apo a 09102 lets phone on 3.70-7010 or cml ian06221-23421 Tel tax 06221 -27239. Kaiserslautern Germany Kevin Dougheny John. 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The appearance of advertising in this publication including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorsement by the department of defense or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised. Tired of complaints this letter is in response to a bad attitudes april 4 in which a German woman married to an american Soldier complained about americans and their attitudes in Germany. I would like to say that in a germans complaining about americans being in their country and How we have no Here a a a. A a 1 was spit on As a child by a German Back in the 1970s, who told us to go Home when my dad was stationed in Hanau. We lived on the Economy and my parents made it a Point to get to know the German culture and the people and they be been friends a German couple for 22years. I could have a very bad attitude about germans and sometimes i , especially when i go shopping on the Economy. They make it a Point of driving their grocery carts at me clearly because in Man american and they stare at me and look me up and Down because in Man american. A Barbara Milter Wurzburg Germany closing door on culture As a department of defense dependents schools teacher at shape International High school i Feci embarrassed and humiliated about the that discourage us from being ourselves and encourage us to remain wholly unresponsive to other cultures. A recently for example a German High school hosted an International teacher luncheon. The always gracious germans served be Barkacs with All sorts of homemade potato salad desserts and of editors note we encourage our readers a Espe daily those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us. Letters expressing readers viewpoints or opinions Are published Dally on this Page. All letters 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 arid taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Course their income arabic bavarian Beer in attendance were the Host germans and Bur fellow British belgian italian dutch and Canadian educators. We were celebrating the idea of internationalism via traditional cuisine. However we americans were not allowed to drink that it eur. This is the cultural equivalent of being invited to a Texas Barbe a Cue but not being allowed to eat any meat or legumes. A when asked by my German Host if i would care for a Beer i had to decline the offer. With a puckish Grin he insisted that the Beer was those internationals around us close enough to. Overhear our. Conversation All turned and smiled uncomfortably at me. But alcohol is Only one of the Many prohibitions now. In effect concerning teachers addition smoking has been banned in the school yet this is not True for the other sections of the Mui Tinai ional facility. We As americans seem to have a penchant for closing the door to cultural receptivity. As american educators overseas it is incumbent upon us to try to assimilate As Best we can into the culture in which we live and work this is what being a Dodds teacher should be All about. Instead we have rules and policies which preclude our being anything but a Bunch of culture Blind foreigners inept at languages and unappreciative of cultural did varsity. ,. A. A in sum the message from above seems to be a yes do As the romans but do it in the privacy of your own Home. A Richard Horan / shape Belgium. A a a a a. Ban a skin cowing contests Why in this Day and age do the nightclubs continue to have. Those stupid con Icsis you know the ones. A hot legs hot body w Ett shirt Daisy Dukes a Etc. Even the noncommissioned officers enlisted club on Leighton. Barracks in Wurzburg sponsored a a trashy woman contest that in itself is unbelievable con. Sideling the military has such a strict equal Opportunity policy. / Quot it does no to matter what name they give to the contest. They Are All a skin to win a the woman who shows the most skin wins. There a nothing wrong with going out to the clubs and having a Good time. I Jove to go out dancing but i find these contests degrading to women and bad for the morale of the military. Remember Tail Hook women Are finally starting to be recognized especially by the . Military and these contests Only hold us Back and put us Down. A a. A Stacy Vav hit head. Wurzburg Germany / commentary As by Jack Sirica my father certainly would have been one of the water Gate Era figures sought by reporters for comment about Richard Nixon a death. In a also reasonably sure he would have declined to respond a and not because he would have had nothing to say. My father was nothing if not Blunt but at Nixon a death he would have Felt uncomfortable saying publicly what he really thought that As a lifelong Republican he was ashamed of Richard Nixon. V Twenty years ago As the judge who presided Over the watergate cases my ate father John Al Sirica reluctantly concluded that Nixon was a Crook. From our Man key recoil he was in Nixon. A i Hope no political party will Ever stoop so Low As to embrace the like of Richard Nixon again a he wrote in a 1979 Book to set the record straight. As flags flew at half staff during the last two Days and guests gathered at Nixon a Birthplace in Yorba Linda Calif for the funeral it struck me that my fathers perspective was valuable and perhaps necessary in the Wake of an outpouring of mostly positive remembrances of the Only american president to resign in disgrace. My father always was afraid something like this would happen a that Nixon a r i 1m411 Wium i of. In conversations about this my election is of How a disappointed accomplishments would get most of the almost an obligatory negative footnote not the defining note of his career As my father came to feel it was. My father died two years ago this August a couple of weeks after the 18th anniversary of Nixon a resignation from of. Fice. He always said that Nixon a could Quot have been a great president a Nixon be both statesman and Crook. I and from the Day in 1973 that he first put on earphones to listen to the White House tapes my father remained a s h d o f what n h and done not Only to the Republican party but More important to the spirit and. Psyche of the nation alter Nixon was elected president in 1%8, my father and i had plenty of political arguments stemming largely from my disagreement with a View he shared w Ith Nixon that Vietnam War protesters i and the social., values. They. Often espoused were leading the country to ruin. In the summer of 1973, he had presided when the special prosecutor went to court to obtain copies of Nixon a White House tapes. My room was in the base Menf then and there were Many mornings roughly at 3 a.m., when id awaken to hear him bumping around in the Kilch in upstairs preparing a bowl of Cereal and a cup of instant Coffee then sitting Down with the reams of motions and briefs that he had brought Home. He began to to the tapes on a saturday in december 1973, retiring with his Young Law clerk Todd Christofferson to the july room behind his courtroom. Nixon a guilt in the cover up did no to hit my father foursquare until he. And Todd i Aye a tape from March 22, 1973, in which Nixon coached his aides.,. I done to give a shit what happens a a Nixon said Oil the tape. A i want you ail to Stonewall it.,. Cover up or anything else if it la save it a. Save the my father later would write in his. Book a a lifetime of dealing with the Bri Mihai Law of watching a Parade of people who had robbed stolen killed raped and deceived others had not hard ened me enough to hear with equanimity the Low political scheming that was being played Back to me from the White House offices. It was the most disillusioning experiences of my life to have to listen now to what had gone on Ait the highest Levels of the government of the United states of America father Felt Nixon should have been indicted. And if he had been convicted my father said Many times a i would have sent him to jail. new Day a. Sours your amp amp news Pear / mom i be&4 meaning Totel Lyou something formon7hs,i. X i know this thu Dupain Hil add you to hear but you be got to Knout. Last summer after a lifetime of denial i finally fi6urepouti is Gay. \ Donabe . Cu�?~r�ju5t artistic. Not really. A urns Amateur photography 7hats/7. \
