European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 10, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Pago 15 the Mother of Aux rattles in. I i i i Quick bomb the Supply lines what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected front a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United states. The editorials arc provided by the associated press and Scripps Howard news service. A Parkersburg . News for years it has been an article of Liberal Faith a not to mention a tremendous vote Gutter a that conservatives were to be ridiculed for wondering aloud what role drug and alcohol abuse might play in hardcore welfare cases. The stereotype of the drunk. Hooked welfare mom was propaganda cooked up by those who had no compassion for the poor we were told. It turns out there was More than stereotyping involved. D rugs and alcohol Are a More serious welfare problem than has been admitted in the past. Pretending that problem does no to exist merely will allow it to journal bulletin the absurd . Policy toward Haiti which mostly consists of tightening economic sanctions and liberalizing Asylum policy has done two major things intensified poverty and churned out More refugees. Sanctions no matter How precisely a a targeted on Haiti a ruling group. Mostly just Worsen the lot of the poor in what was already the americas poorest country far better to either bribe the Junta to leave. Or Force them out via a multinational Atlanta special counsel Robert b. Fiske or. Has issued an interim report on the Whitewater affair. And found no criminal wrongdoing when White House and Treasury department officials contacted Federal regulators who were looking into Whitewater. This should quiet those who of Tittle or no evidence have virtually accused the administration of obstructing Justice. But the report probably wont be enough to shut up the most sensationalist of the Whitewater demagogues a those who have tried to portray the suicide of presidential counsel Vincent Foster As a homicide committed to cover up scandal. Dally press Newport news a. Massachusetts other senator John Kerry is accusing republicans of being More interested in president Clinton a involvement in the Whitewater affair than in the far More serious problems associated with the National savings and loan debacle. If the gop really cared about the loss taxpayers have suffered there Are bigger fish. To Herald Telegram Chippewa Falls was. Can you imagine Harry s. Truman a White House staff being accused of stealing towels from the aircraft Carrier George Washington. Its no wonder the american people shake their Heads in wonder about their a a leaders in the Federal government. With recent disclosures of helicopter Golf trips and missing towels we wonder if this administrations motto is Janis Joplin a Mournful refrain a Honey get it while you Cincinnati enquirer 1 it is too Large a number to enter on a pocket calculator $4,250,000,000. And its the largest single product liability settlement in . History $4.25 billion to be paid by the manufacturers of silicone breast implants to the thousands of women who say the implants have ruined their health a and to the lawyers who won them the Money. The whopper sized lawsuit came along with the removal of silicone from the Market and a talk show fanned nationwide fright Over implants. Then a and incredibly Only then a came three a epidemiological studies that show no proof of disease caused from breast implants. The Large studies indicate that if implants cause any disease at All it must be unusual or rare. The fact that the lawsuits ran ahead of the medical evidence is proof that trial lawyers Are running the show. That is not a healthy sign. We All eventually pay for inflated lawsuit awards through higher insurance recorder Zanesville Ohio president Clinton has shaken up his staff replacing chief of staff Mack Mclarty with Washington Veteran Leon Panetta and moving David Gergen to the state department. Perhaps he should consider another shake up a replacing Warren Christopher As Secretary of state a change would be popular and it might Well be Herald High. Higher. See an american Bald Eagle. Soaring. Soaring. God but he a Beautiful. And free. The . Wildlife service removed the Eagle from the endangered species list just Days before the nation. Celebrated its Liberty. How appropriate. The Bald Eagle will remain on the threatened list. But the great Bird our proudest National Symbol is free of immediate threat of extinction Tribune the $30 billion space station program which has been barely clinging to life in recent years finally May be poised to launch a vibrant new Era of human space exploration and International cooperation. Last week the House overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to kill the project and by a vote of 278-155, approved $2.1 billion for it next year. A year ago budget conscious lawmakers nearly sent the space program spinning into a Black Hole when they approved funding by Only a single vote. But this year under orders from president Clinton Nasa administrator Daniel Goldin has trimmed and. Refocused the Agency and the space station. He has put in place management systems that should make nasal a Cost estimates and timetables More credible and realistic. He also has. Worked to make Russia a full partner in the space station along with Europe Japan and Canada. Nasa must still deliver on its promises but a major hurdle has been science Monitor Boston it Isnit often that one feels moved to Rise to the defense of the internal Revenue service. Yet an item crossed our desk recently that Pardon us taxed credulity the . House of representatives recently halved the budget for upgrading the irs computer system. Our sympathy has less to do with an attraction to the latest Bells and whistles than with simple arithmetic. Quot the Federal government is struggling to reduce its budget deficit which the Clinton administration estimates at about $225 billion for this year. Meanwhile the irs estimates that out there somewhere $100 billion in unpaid individual and corporate income taxes Are floating around. Asl an unadvertised tax break mostly for wealthy fliers no submit Complex returns. Failing to act to upgrade the Irso capacity. Makes lawmakers look As through they Lack the most Basic of computing tools a common sense. A. New York times in the coming year the supreme court will answer the question of whether individual states have the right to limit the terms of members of Congress. The justices task is no to decide whether term limits Are a Good or a bad idea but whether an individual state has a right to prescribe the terms of the Federal legislature whose membership requirements Are set by the Constitution. Both the language of the Constitution and the history of its framing make it Clear that the states do not have that right. The court therefore has an obligation to follow the Wisdom of the founders. If the american people want to limit congressional terms they can do so by amending the Constitution in the prescribed ways. But to state can be allowed to abrogate this Federal function by. Setting its own rules. A Washington Post As an example of political cynicism the new japanese government is breathtaking. Its cobbled together from the opposites of the right and left a the most obdurate elements of the collapsing Liberal democratic that is conservatives and their longtime adversaries the socialists some japanese say the. People in the new government have nothing in common beyond a yearning for Power but that a not quite True. Both know japanese society is changing in ways that do not favor them. The government instability arrives at a time when the country a Economy is already under great Strain. Americans have been wondering Why their own currency seems to be falling at a time when the Economy Here is performing Well. Now its beginning to be Clear the Dollar Isnit falling. Its the yen that a out of control. Something sturdier is needed to make the Sharp changes Japan will need in the gathering economic Angeles times probably no subject involving the military has provoked greater bafflement derision amusement or outrage than the purchasing polices so Long followed by the Pentagon. The military buys scores of billions of dollars Worth of goods every year. Few doubt that a Large fraction of that Money is wasted because of the costs added to. Products by unnecessarily detailed technical specifications. In one of the More Welcome reforms of recent times defense Secretary William j. Perry promises that much of this will now change. Indeed he says a a we re turning the present system upside will the new policy mean the end of such fiascos As the $800 Coffeepot and the $400 Hammer rational purchasing improvements can be expected miracles alas cannot. But if nothing else trying to justify such outrages is about to be made infinitely harder. This is not a Battle where total Victory is possible. But at least a lot of ground can be gained
