European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 12, 1994what 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  Ravenna Ohio its easy for anyone born in the 1960s, �?T70s and �?T80s to completely ignored Day and All it meant. Those generations did no to fight in a War of this magnitude. The korean War and Vietnam were Mere memories and a Day and anything else related to it was explained away As Quot the defeat of  so much More was at stake. Perhaps one of the reasons some of those who done to know War Are so cynical about the topic is because Vietnam was fought for reasons that Are still unknown. And almost nothing was  world War ii was a time when a fighting for your country meant something. It meant standing for the Freedom of All men and women. And of course a Success meant that the allies were doing something right Star Tribune newspaper of the twin cities Minneapolis St. Paul the old soldiers voice falters As he tells about losing his buddy on the Beach that morning. By the Calendar it happened 50 years ago. But to the old Soldier for whom a hardly a Day goes by that you done to think about it a memory keeps history As fresh As yesterday. Even after half a Century he can still feel the pain the anguish the terror of that Day a june 6, 1944, a Day. It is this Battle this a Day that remains the defining moment of the greatest and most destructive War in history a world War ii,.press-Telegram Long Beach Calif. It May take years before the american Public knows whether Dan Rostenkowski Illinois congressman and chairman of the influential House ways and Means committee stole taxpayers Money. The three years it took the government to gather enough evidence to Issue the 17-count indictment against the powerful career lawmaker will be matched by the amount of time Rostenkowski a lawyers use to defend him from charges of embezzlement and obstruction of Justice. Congress could help rebuild the Public Trust by passing meaningful Campaign Reform Laws and beefing up ethics Laws. That and Only that would hold the nations lawmakers to the same ethical and Legal standards expected of the people they  amp chronicle Rochester . With Dan Rostenkowski a forced resignation. As chairman of the powerful House ways and Means committee a lot of people sounded the death Knell for president Clinton a health Reform Bill. \ they done to believe Rostenkowski a successor Florida congressman Sam Gibbons is up to the demanding Job of shepherding the Bill through Congress. Its now up to Gibbons to prove his critics wrong. Any significant Reform in the nations health care system May depend on it Augusta a chronicle president Clinton continues to insult the military National Security Community by naming Radical Vietnam Era activists to governmental posts. The latest disgusting selection involves georgian Chuck Searcy. The �?T92 Clinton fund Raiser is slated for a cushy Pentagon Job overseeing pow Mia affairs. From 1971-73, he headed the University of Georgia Vietnam veterans against the War and was a prominent member of Quot coalition a a Campus party of anti War activists marxists homosexuals and drug legalization advocates. The National commander of the veterans of foreign wars labels the Searcy Choice a disgrace daily press Newport news a. Timothy wind a los Angeles police officer caught up in the Rodney King Case was right when he said a a it a the King Case. Its never Over  at least the message that the King Case sends to police officers across Quot the country should never be forgotten. Commentary the stars and stripes Pago 15journal american Bellevue Wash. A what is it about the word no they done to understand a a women a rights advocate said in response to a Pennsylvania supreme court decision that tossed out a Many a rape conviction. As the definition of rape evolves men need to listen closely when a woman says  Telegram Chippewa Falls wis. The Clinton administration lowered its moral standing a notch or two. When it struck a Deal to import ru-486, the so called a abortion pills that has been called a human pesticide. Donna Shalala Secretary of the . Department of health and human services proudly announced she had convinced Roussel Claf the pills foreign manufacturer to turn Over the pills Patent rights to the population Council. In return for bringing it to Market for tests Shalala offered the population Council Protection from liability suits. Without tests and a track record no one a not Donna Shalala not Bill Clinton not even members of the so called population Council a knows the Lon term effects of this highly potent highly toxic  . Journal rarely have two leaders been so fundamentally at Odds As were president Clinton and Pope John Paul ii Over the abortion Issue in their meeting at the Vatican. Still As the debate Over abortion continues to rage in America the encounter Between a president who supports a woman Slegal right to choose to have an abortion and a Pope who vehemently opposes the policy out of his religious beliefs was heartening for its civility. It was All the More impressive because for the foreseeable future neither the . Government nor the Vatican will change its position on abortions. Louis Post dispatch As More major cities adopt so called aggressive begging Laws to try to discourage panhandlers Evanston 111., has found a seemingly More compassionate Way to address this problem. Leaders of the Chicago suburb know that Many people beg for Good reason they need food clothing and shelter. The answer Evanston decided Isnit to deny assistance to the panhandlers but to find a More dignified Way for donors to help them. Evanston a anti soliciting Campaign might serve As a Model for other cities seeking Public donations to assist their homeless populations. At the same Lime the Campaign gives donors an Opportunity to make contributions in a dignified Way and not feel guilty during the lunch hour about saying no to a sad looking Street person who insists he needs Money for food. Sun Baltimore showdown time on health care legislation finds the citizenry confused Congress groping desperately for a consensus or a Fig Leaf and Hillary Rodham Clinton a elaborate proposals Headin for the Capitol Hill Butcher shop. What if anything emerges will depend More on political fear factors than on widely supported reforms to fix a system that leaves millions of americans uninsured. This newspaper remains convinced that health insurance reforms arc needed so that All citizens can obtain reasonably priced coverage.,Congress and the president can still take a first step this year even if the Long journey is far from  Post invading Haiti is a bad idea supported by Good people. Aside from the practical complexities invasion is wrong in principle. Its the colonial solution Well intended but nevertheless the imposition by armed Force of a big country a decisions on a Small on Miami Herald last year Congress found the courage to slash a Little known item in the budget of the National aeronautics and space administration. Lawmakers took their fiscal Machete to the space Agency a entire $12 million Seti project. Set stands for a search for extraterrestrial intelligence  for once Congress can take credit Tor having its feet firmly on the ground a or at least on Earth. Seti had spent More than $30 million in Federal funds apparently looking for Little Green space men and women. True these Nasa employees developed potent devices to Monitor and Send radio signals into outer space. But . Never phoned Back los Angeles times the american medical association has now added its influential voice to others that Are calling on the Federal government to regulate tobacco As an addictive drug. T he Ama Isnit demanding a ban on cigarettes Only that the government have stronger authority to control their distribution. Realistically it will probably take at least a generation and maybe a lot longer to make the United states a society that a More or less smoke free. Meanwhile smoking related diseases will go on killing up to 500,000 americans a year. Anything that can feasibly be done to reduce that appalling toll is Well Worth trying Standard Democrat Ilkeston to. Capital punishment foes lined up. To protest the execution of Charles Rodman Campbell in Washington state. The ongoing debate Over he death penalty has raged for a generation or More. It will continue As Long As opinions differ. And they always will. But when you Peel Back the rhetoric and the emotions of the Issue you have individual cases involving real people and real acts of brutality. That seems to be the missing element in the anti capital punishment argument