European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 5, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 19what 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 United press International and Scripps Howard news  Post that a a Tough indictment that was handed up against rep. Dan Rostenkowski d-ill., tuesday. It was sometimes said in the course of the two year investigation by the . Attorney s office that the Veteran congressman would never commit offences As Petty As those in which he was said to have been involved. But taken together and if in fact they occurred As described the alleged offences Are anything but Petty they can to be put in the everybody does it category either. We have no idea How the Rostenkowski Case will turn out the defense has yet to be heard from. But whatever occurs the Case Hasni to been deflected for political reasons. That a already an impressive  York times it sounds like the opening of a movie the background action while the credits Are unrolling. Only it Isnit a movie. This scene is real and was played out last month when a woman named Barbara Schoener went out for a seven mile run and became the first person killed by a Mountain lion in California since 1909. A week later Hunters killed the lion its 7-week-old cub All floppy feet and Sweet face and primal innocence got a television spot. It also got $21,000, most of it a pledge from a nonprofit organization of a nearby zoo which said it would use the Money to improve a habitat for the cubs use. Mrs. Schoenert a two Small children for whom a Trust fund was established she was the family a main support did not do even half As Well. Is this Puppy love Kitty love goldfish and turtles and parakeet love run wild Providence  journal president Clinton is right to condemn human rights outrages in China. America after All loses its soul if it does no to speak out for such values. However his on again off again attempts to use the Trade weapon against Beijing have been foolish in any Case Clinton a latest decision to renew most of China a Trade privileges is Welcome. Few if any practices can be More democratizing than open energetic Trade Between nations st. Louis Post dispatch since the announcement of his nomination to the . Supreme court judge Stephen Breyer has been visible to the american Public mostly in the irrelevant roles of presidential guest and jogging buddy. But Alert viewers of a Span recently managed to catch the judge doing what he does Best questioning lawyers during an appellate argument. Thanks to a spans video archaeology americans curious about the prospective Justice Breyer were Able to see him and the appellate process in action. But the experience would have been even More informative if the proceedings had been for real. Unfortunately Despur ersome experiments with televised trials Federal courts Are still off limits to to cameras. Having appeared on screen and survived with his Robed dignity intact perhaps judge Breyer can convince his colleagues that they have nothing to fear from a Little electronic  York times with the end of the cold War demobilization is on the March. Around the world troop Levels Are dropping and so is military spending. This Little noticed trend documented in data compiled by the . Arms control and disarmament Agency offers Hope that global military tensions May diminish and that scarce resources can be diverted to More urgent civilian needs. It also raises questions As to whether the United states is reshaping its own military As rapidly As it should to reflect the receding threat. Examiner san Francisco Michael Buffington the multimillionaire Republican candidate for the . Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein avoided paying California taxes. From 1988 to 1990, he paid no state income tax in the Golden state despite owning a $4.3 million Villa in Santa Barbara where his family lived full time. During those three years he said he joined his wife and children Only on weekends while spending weekdays in his $450,000 House in Houston where he ran his Lone Star state Oil business for a candidate who promotes fiscal responsibility in government and slams opponents for free spending Huffington s tax dodging is Well curious., Huffington a dual residency was a Sham. California residents must pay taxes on All income whether earned Here or not. Huffington should pay up. If he does no to the state should make . Louis Post dispatch if there Ever was a statute that Hasni to worked As intended it is the superfund Law passed in 1986 to Deal with the nations hazardous waste Sites. Instead of causing a cleanup of the Sites the Law has produced a riot of lawsuits Over who is responsible for what. All sides agree the Law needs changing,.blade Toledo the supreme court has been making life difficult for states that want to keep other Peoples trash from their landfills. States must be allowed to restrict the inflow of trash. At the same time states must take some responsibility for their in state generated waste although obviously not All states Are equally capable of doing so. It the present situation is unacceptable however. It is a mandate for some states to evade responsibility for their waste literally dumping their problem on someone else. Its time for Congress to  Baltimore the year was 1969. The site was Berlin. The circumstance was the election of a new German 6 president a largely ceremonial Post. The stakes were nothing less than control of the Bonn government after election of a new parliament a and a Chancellor a later in the year what happened last week in Berlin was another presidential election this one in which the free democrats reluctant and divided As Ever stuck with the Christian democrats rather than risk political oblivion. Chosen president was chief judge roman Herzog of the supreme court Chancellor Helmut Kohls Choice but hardly a favorite in the country. It Germany is about to be denied the leadership of its most popular politician. Richard von  who in his 10 years the limit As president has come to embody the conscience of a country that still feds a abnormal Quot a nation haunted by its nazi past. President von Weissi Icker has constantly warned against Neo nazi eruptions and against intolerance toward foreigners. His successor despite a bumbling beginning must do nothing  free press for the first time in the 15 years since it was. Introduced a National bottle Bill May come to a vote in Congress this summer. Congress ought to allow the whole country to enjoy the benefits of a bottle Bill. Then How about a Deposit on tires too to rid the landscape of another ubiquitous eyesore Chicago Sun times the determination of Congress to control spending is exceeded Only by its creativity in finding ways to keep spending. Congress has been so in love with a balanced budget that it keeps trying to change the Constitution to require itself to achieve one. All of this of course Hasni to gone very far. It makes too much sense. Besides for Loo Many members of Congress voting for such things would be too much like keeping their  inquirer Tom Foley top dog in the . House of representatives Hopes to Bury a Bill that he Calls a probably the most poorly thought out proposal for the consideration of Public policy that in be seen in Many years what could be so bad a plan to let any member of Congress propose a spending Cut and get a vote on it. That sounds reasonable to the average american and it sounded reasonable to the 229 members of the House who endorsed the idea. But Foley who obviously thinks the Federal budget is about right warns that this Clear decisive process might cause rank and file legislators to Cut too much from the $1.5 trillion budget. In other words if the House and Senate were to tackle the budget democratically they a mess it up