European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday May 22,1994clinton assails negativism in . Los Angeles a winding up a week of talk about replacing cynicism and division in America with optimism and Unity president Clinton came Back to a phrase he had appropriated from a woman in Indianapolis. A if you work on bringing people together and you talk about it you re Likely to elicit a Yawn a he told a University audience Friday. A a but if you bad Mouth people you can get yourself a talk in speech after speech including his weekly radio address saturday the president lamented negativism in american society and urged people to take More personal responsibility Lor trying to solve the country a problems. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago May 22,1984 Sheik Alt Khalifa Al Sabah the kuwaiti Oil minister criticized what he said was a passive . Attitude toward the Iran Iraq War which threatens to paralyse Oil Tanker traffic in the persian Gulf. 20 years ago May 22,1974 a Jeb Stuart Magruder the no. 2 Man in president Nixon s re election Campaign was sentenced to at least 10 months in prison for helping plan the watergate break in bugging and cover up. 30 years ago May 22,1964 the state department said unarmed . Jets were flying reconnaissance missions Over parts of Laos to gather information on the disposition of communist forces attacking troops of the neutralise government. 40years ago May 22,1954 a a former . Army Captain now living in Lima Ohio was charged in Frankfurt with the murder of three army military government officials on Jan. 7, 1946, in Passau Germany. 50years ago May 22,1944 a powerful air and sea forces from three separate Heaters combined for the first time in a crushing 18-hour attack against the key japanese naval repair and Supply base on Java in the dutch East War ii j 50 years ago today May 221 a 9 a 4 4 an american submarine discovers the big Fleet that the japanese have massed around Taw Itawi in the Sulu sea preparing Tor a Battle that Tokyo Hopes Wil disrupt the expected . Tova Sron of the Manana islands. On new Guinea a Strong japanese counterattack forces . Soldiers Back some at the a tape beachhead near Hoti Andia. The japanese often save to far Eastern India slows. 2194 Days of wat w. H. So fun pub soars ire. The world almanac of world War it son sodas corp., 1991 a he began the theme a week ago in Indianapolis at the groundbreaking ceremony for a Monument to sen. Robert of Kennedy slain in los Angeles on june 5, 1968, and the Rev. Martin Luther King slain april 4,1968, in Memphis Tenn. During that ceremony Clinton picked up on the remarks of a previous speaker who lamented that a message of hate was More Likely to earn someone a talk show than would a message of renewed that message in an address Friday to a convocation audience at the University of California los Angeles saying. \ a if president Kennedy were alive today he would be absolutely shocked at the pessimism and the negativism the division the destructive tone of Public discourse in America today. We know we can do later during an evening fund Raiser he added a we cannot afford to be divided diverted the president continued the theme in saturdays radio address invoking the Kennedy legacy As the nation mounts Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who died thursday night of cancer. A a this is a time of considerably More cynicism and pessimism when harsh rhetoric and division and distraction and outright destruction sometimes Domi nates discussion of Public issues a Clinton said. A but it is Well today to remember the examples of president and mrs. Kennedy. They changed our lives for the better because they helped us to believe we could change for the better. This is still expressing determination that 1994 will be the year that Congress enacts health care reforms the president told americans Quot lets work together now to tone Down the divisive rhetoric to Stop the shouting to Start talking with each other listening to each other and working with our sleeves rolled up and our Heads and hearts Efi aged in the mystery Winner a 22-year-od Las vegas woman holds a giant Check for $53 a hat to help hide her identity. Don Miller an executive of i million after she hit a Slot machine Jackpot thursday the. To National game technology presents the Check at the Gold woman asked to remain Anonymous and wore dark glasses and coast Casino. Gop leaders tape to ads opposing health care plan Washington a the Republican party is spending $500,000 on television ads that criticize president Clinton a health plan and suggest that Congress can a fix health care without a big new the ads feature the Republican leaders of Congress and major gop players in the health debate All singing from the same hymnal. They say that people can be guaranteed affordable insurance when they change jobs or get sick a without the Clinton government run a working together republicans and democrats can fix health care a without a big new bureaucracy a declare the spots read by Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas House minority Leader Bob Michel of Illinois and nine other gop lawmakers a a let a do it the ads ignore differences in gop ranks including a split Over whether All individuals should be forced to buy health House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia said at a news conference Friday a we Are at least As unified As the Jim Whitney a spokesman for the democratic National committee said a the ads Duck the fundamental question which is a where does the Republican party stand on guaranteeing private insurance to every american a where do they stand on Universal coverage a Haley Barbour the Republican National committee chairman said the ads a make dear republicans Are for health care Reform but cannot support or accept the Clin tons proposal for a government run health care polls have indicated the Public thinks the democrats Are More Likely than the republicans to solve the country s health care problems. But support for Clinton a plan has plunged in recent months. Democrats Are looking for ways to exempt Small businesses from the requirement to buy insurance for workers and to make the alliances voluntary. Other republicans appearing in the spots Are Sens. Don Nickles of Oklahoma Dave Durenberger of Minnesota Phil Gramm of Texas and Trent Lott of Mississippi and reps Dennis Hastert of Illinois William Thomas of California Nancy Johnson of Connecticut and Michael Birlirakis of Florid. Dole said sen. John Chafee of Rhode Island who wants to require individuals to buy insurance will tape an and this week. Censor Blanks naughty words in Library Book Coquille Ore. A what the Blank is going on Here someone is waging a War on words at the Coquille Public Library using White correction fluid to paint Over naughty phrases and sexy passages in Library books. Workers have discovered blanked out passages in about a dozen of the Library a. 25,q00 volumes. The Blank spaces Are neatly inked Over with ellipses. Librarian Molly Deplois said Friday that most of the deleted passages Are sexually explicit. For example in the novel Winter prey by John Sandford one sentence now reads a Yea you put a Blank lawyer out there and ill pin this Blank picture on the bulletin defacing Library books is a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 Fine Deplois estimates damage at about $300, the Library Hopes to crack the Case by offering a Reward a free Book with a cover Price of about $50
