European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12letters to the editor tuesday May 24, 1994european edition Cal Steven s. Hoffman Usan a commander publisher. Bernard a. Zovistoski. A a editor news and editorial Deborah Aba her news editor Bill Walter european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George me net City editor Quot to write us unit 29480 Apoate 09211, or Postrach 11 14 37 a 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 plus Extension As follows. A. 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. 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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 slats and stripes of the products or services advertised. Out a inaccuracy i was astounded by a Story on the front Page recently telling your readers How the military postal system and the . Mail have reduced delivery time to less than a week on average. If a Story came from the associated press declaring in a Survey that All humans on Earth had 12 legs with the byline a Elvis Presley a i suppose that would be printed also. My impression of what it meant to be an editor was that you edited. Not Only for spelling and punctuation but accuracy. My mail and the mail of Many people i know arrives on the average of about 2vi/to three weeks after mailing in the United states and vice versa. It has been getting worse not belter. Some letters and packages have been Over a month in transit and some1 items actually have arrived earlier than those mailed before them. This is not to say that those have been timely either just that the earlier items were that slow. Much of this mail is carrying an overpriced first class stamp. 1 am having quite a bit of difficulty believing that the rest of the maps customers Are receiving their mail in two to three Days. A sgt. John stauder Hanau Germany a a a a a the test of the Story you reported that Gen. David m. Maddox approved a new Standard for response to routine work orders for government housing maintenance. Engineers Are required to Complete 60 percent of routine work orders within 15 Days 75 percent within 30 Days and 80 percent within 45 Days. Did no to Gen. Maddox also mention that funds for housing maintenance have been so drastically reduced in Europe that the . Army Europe has directed the directorate of housing engineers to perform no routine maintenance work in government housing Only that which eliminates an immediate treat to safety or prevent further damage to properly a Kathleen Dunn Vicenza Italy f 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, Apo a 09211. Or fax 06155-601-463, Dan 348-8463. Story ran Short the members of the 32nd trans element wish to express our disappointment with the article titled a a runs finish 1-3�?� May 12. The article regarding an exhibition two mile run failed to credit our own staff sgt. Brian Mann with his 11 14 second place finish besting Jim Ryun by 34 seconds. He May not be famous but he deserves to be publicly recognized for his outstanding achievement against world class Competition. A master sgt. Larry Shear v soc Sterberg Netherlands commentary shot Down where in the world do you find some of the nonsense you publish on the commentary Page in the stars and stripes i am speaking specifically of the commentary by Gilbert Cranberg titled a How to trigger a comeback for firearms May 18. / v. ,. / a a a Quot a Cranberg alleges the a gun lobby a whoever they Are wants to arrange the Constitution to make the second amendment the first amendment wants a Quot gun Stamps program for the poor and is completely against any attempts to keep minors from owning weapons. These allegations Are Complete Hogwash. None of these ludicrous assertions has any basis in the platforms espoused by the National rifle1 association the second amendment foundation or the citizens committee for the right to keep and Bear arms. I done to know what the a gun lobby is but none of these worthy organizations espouses any of the ridiculous objectives alleged in Cranberg a in fact All of the major organizations of gun owners Are strictly against unlawful weapons Possession by minors. This commentary is obviously an attempt by a gun control fanatic to make anyone who believes in the right to keep and Bear arms look like a Lunatic. This is the third or fourth commentary by a gun control advocate that has appeared in recent weeks in the stars and stripes. Most of them were at Best inaccurate and misleading. How about some balance in the form of a few commentaries by gun control opponents or. Stephen Whiteaker Frankfurt Germany commentary 1 America s vulgarity by Mike lit Tuvin it seems to me what people most and Nii red about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is that she was never of our age. If you think about it that is a rare and wonderful thing Given that we live in the age of Geraldo when Little is private and even less is sacred. A Jackie o would seem to fit perfectly in that time. But Jackie Onassis was never really Jackie o. The most scandalous thing she Ever did was to refuse to play forever the grieving widow. Did she remarry for the Money or As a Rich Many a widow already did she marry Aristotle Onassis to escape the Burden of our expectations and live happily Ever after far from View on a yacht in the Adriatic i can remember How my mothers heart was broken at the time. And she told me How it was broken again when the family rushed to Jackie a Side As she received her last rites. The memories of All the Kennedy tragedies Are summoned up. A a a Jackie o was a neat tabloid invention. It was a convenient tag with which to Label the pictures that the magazines a and the Magazine readers a never seem to tire of the pictures Are always the same the pictures of a year ago were of the same Jackie who was in the Limo the same Jackie who was at the funeral the same Jackie who has never left our View. She never seemed to change even As we did. But the real Jackie Onassis that a the strange thing. Although she was As visible As any woman of her age few of us have any idea of who the real Jackie Onassis might have been because she never wanted us to know. She never tried to exploit her celebrity. If you ask people today what they Admire about her you can expect to hear the words a quiet and it is also generally said that she was a Good Mother. No one can really take the measure of another a Parent. But what it Means to be a Good Mother in this Case is How fiercely she protected her children a privacy. As a Book editor herself Jackie Onassis might be the most famous person in modern times never to have written her Story. Not Only did no to she Tell All she. Did no to Tell anything. Of course there was much she could have told in the 30 years since. John John saluted his father at the funeral the stories of either Jack Kennedy a womanizing or Jack Kennedy s assassination have been a constant topic of speculation and sensation. There were the family deaths the family scandals the Kennedy children. She could have played the role of victim so popular today women who love Womanizer who grow tip to be president. She did no to. We re thankful to her for that. A. a a we May have Little idea of who she was. We have some idea of what she was not. She was never tawdry. More often she was almost regal. That show we discovered her in the Days of Camelot. Remember there was no Camelot without her. It was Jack and Jackie. She played the role of Young Royalty As if she were born to it just As he did. America fell in love with her. We never quite fell out of love either even when she went off with Onassis. Eventually the More bad things we heard about Jack the More we liked Jackie through it All she stayed quiet and dignified and just As important mysterious which May explain in part our endless fascination with her. Celebrity especially that much celebrity is a monster that takes everything in its path. But somehow Jackie Onassis played the monster on her own terms. A. A Ballimore Sun. Lap Esany gentlemen. My name is Janie caucus anum an a attorney a Fth the criminal pts Tyson Here at Justice. Y As you can 5eb from your handouts move a id pict se\mtd6acco in usury Cal Cuthas for false i y West by no 8�f0r� Congress. 7he/np/c7ment Atasi Lep a a act court this morning. Any questions is. Caus is Mil you. Be collaring these executives if necessary. 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