European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16letters to the editor Friday May 13,1994 european edition. Col Steven s. Hoffman Usan commander publisher a Bernard a. Zov1stoski a editor a a news and editorial Deborah aether a nows editor. Bill Walker european editor sob Wicker sports editor. George Manes. City editor to write us unit 29480 Apoate 09211 or pcs teach 1t 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, a sports ext. 225,269, 263, 332, 321,221. Features ext. 230,245.341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education a cml Jones ext. 226, business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph own Roodt t17, Rome str. 104,69126 Heidelberg car 419, Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 376-7010 or civilian 06221-23421 Tel fax 06221 -27239,. 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The appearance of advertising in this publication including i saris or supplements does not Eon Souife endorsement by Tho department of defense or Tho slats Ond stripes of the products or services advertised. Give Kohl a break i have some questions in reference to Ellen Goodman a commentary a cd Day services done to need Kohl and company May 5. What does a Kohl and company mean who is a a company is that a the germans is that me the typical German. Subhuman creature As you portrayed me on the right top Corner of your commentary ,. Should a Kohl and company not.pa.r-, Ticie tote because a in Bosnia people shoot each other in revenge for events that can be tracked Back 800 years or because a in the Middle East israelis and palestinians kill each other. A or because a a. All through Europe there Are Young ignorant Neo nazis painting swastikas on Walls or because a in America a cult of a revisionists denies that the hoi Caust Ever happened or because a in Japan Young students learn More about Hiroshima than Pearl Harbor or because a in Italy a a Post fascist a Leader Calls Mussolini a the greatest statesman of the Century Quot n please dear Ellen Goodman answer these questions. I have to work with United states officials both civilian and military on a nearly daily basis. How can i continue to do so without Bias a it. Gol. Dieter Schie futzing Germany. A a i Quot a a a v. A a not so Good Samaritans i recently had car trouble on a Friday afternoon on the main Road on Ramstein a. I sat in the car with the Hood popped up and the Hazard lights flashing for 10 minutes watching people go by. How frustrating it was when not one person stopped until the first Security policeman stopped to help. I would like to say thank you to the people who did Stop to offer their help. Mainly i would like to thank the spa for helping me especially the one who is new to Germany. In a sure that anyone who knows me would have stopped. That a not what upsets me. Its the people who did no to Stop. Whom can we count on if we can to count on each other in a time of need. A Linda j. Guevara Ramstein a Germany i editors note we encourage our readers a especially 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 and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apoate 09211. Or fax 06155-601-463, Dan 348-8463. Adopt a worthwhile cause in response to a ban skin to win contests Quot May 3both men and women were invited to enter the a trashy woman Quot contest at. The Leighton no club in Wurzburg Germany Only women entered they did no to find it demeaning. Women also attended and enjoyed the event guess they did no to feel offended anyone who has heard the song or seen the video that inspired the contest knows that it is in no Way degrading to women nor is it meant to take away from the Many accomplishments made by women throughout history. As with any Type of contest there is always a select few who Are easily offended Ana feel compelled to have their voices heard. A. Quot Ait would be More productive society if they Lent their services to More important social issues such As solving real equal Opportunity problems stopping real sexual harassment spouse and child abuse Etc. A a a a a a a Conrad Cooper Frankfurt Germany 7 a a. A Quot a Quot Quot i 7. Traits of a traitor Ever since the Story broke in the news reporting of the Aldrich h. Ames espionage Case has contained one notable inaccuracy. Even today the press continues to categorize the former Cia employee As an a admitted soviet spy a which is incorrect Ames is a traitor pure and simple. A a a a a a a a a a a in the intelligence Community there is a simple test to determine the difference Between the two spies buy secrets. Traitors sell secrets. It does no to take a certified Public accountant to evaluate Ames $2,5 million income and categorize his professional status. A Paul c. Hickey. Augsburg Germany commentary a 3 Quot in can see by Amy e. Schwartz i done to usually get the Chance to posture generation ally since i fall into the minuscule age Range that a part of Nei Thor the baby Boom nor generation x. But the deaths recently of Kurt Cobain and Richard Nixon fill the Bill. They offer an Odd constricting bracket for people like me who at 31 or thereabouts Are just barely too Young to have come to political maturity hating Nixon and just barely too old to have sobbed with Cobain and listened to nirvana. This cramped Antic of vision affords one advantage from it you can see the fallacy of a link that a been widely if implicitly assumed in commentary on Nixon and watergate. To wit Nixon and the watergate crimes helped destroy americans Confidence in their leaders this caused american Trust in authority and institutions to plummet thus everyone is investigated now everyone is tainted the Young have no heroes and this is the reason for the anguish and Anomie of generation x. Cobain a suicide is being taken As a kind of confirmation of the actual existence of this spreading nihilism and despair of the Twenty ish. The idea that a despairing sense of the world has anything to do with �?T60s upheaval and �?~70s governmental crisis is dangerous. First it makes a classic cultural memory mistake assuming there a any direct resemblance Between experiencing watergate style upheavals As a thinking adult and witnessing them As a Blank state child. Second it sets up barriers to discussion of the bigger More current maybe More comb table forces that press on the Young. Hanging present Day Anomie and moral vacuum on Richard Nixon is part of hanging them on the �?T60s, which is More fun and politically explosive to be. Sure than hanging them on Large Boring forces like the collapse of education. For adults who had lived under presidents they revered i pan see How the fall of a president could be frightening and unnerving. But think of it from a a our Side. When watergate hit the papers i was 11 it was the first Public crisis of magnitude i was old enough to follow even distantly. And the unfolding drama of Pursuit and resignation was from this standpoint amazing and thrilling i was in an 11-year-old Way proud. \ the rage of Cobain age kids at the system and leaders a and More the helplessness a reminds me of a different lobe of feeling from those years one that came not from the events occurring in politics but from the experience of not following politics at All. In the years Between watergate and my 20th birthday i almost never picked up a paper and though in a embarrassed by it now i can still shiver with the feeling of chaos and unreason National politics gives you from that dark distance. F rom july 23, we Nikon a Dato my much wet amp few How can _ hts lawyer yep <a45 v to Nisi pm of Tecot amp a Tun muh Ifa puff obstruction of Justice hush Honey payments secret. 0om8n6s,z5top Tnp step. / my lord what poes a take what poes it Tabt / the a a a Era loss then Isnit of Faith in the system but of information about it information that is with enough depth to provide a conceivable target for efforts of any sort. Its a truism that Reading gives such depth and to news mostly cannot. Its hard to argue that the mtg take on the news can offer any sense of the system let alone when it s coupled with Ever Shorter hours spent Reading and Ever Shorter classroom hours spent talking about the nations civics or recent history. Something similar is True of the second great cultural engine of Disi Ilu Sion closer to the surface than National politics and in its Way even More relent Ess a to commercials. These gradually drum in the conviction that any narrative you see any Story you hear from ring around the Collar to a homely tale of sparkling glassware is being staged for you by someone who wants your Cash. People my age and younger Are famous for our attachment to the Brady Bunch not merely because its cheesy and we Are a cynical crowd but because when it comes right Down to it that a what we got while information and culture of a better kind were slowly fading from our education whether about politics or literature. The rage and sadness and disengagement of Cobain and the rest May be in that sense mainly an education problem. A c Washington a Tpmasa Kofl -Beorcbr-sombthtn&r.,. We Haft to boy my s the 7h6ni-controversial f no to
