European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12letters to the editor monday july 25, 1994 the sell amp and european edition col Steven s. Hoffman Usan a commander publisher a Bernard a.  editor news and editorial Deborah Absher. News editor Bill Walker european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George Manes City editor. A to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211. A 1. Or Postrach 11 14 37. 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension. Or Dan 348-8 plus Extension As follows. News ext. 237, 255, 282,226, 326. A sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. Features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext. 203. Education Jimi Jones ext 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus a Heidelberg. Germany Joseph own room 117,Romo str. 104, 69126 Heidelberg car 419, to 1916, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421 Tel fax 06221-27239. Kaiserslautern Germany Kovin Dougherty. 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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 Siars and str Pes of the products or services advertised. Kudos knocks i enjoyed your article on father Damien and his work with the lepers at Kalaupapa. May i Point out a minor error the caption under his photograph said he died of leprosy. Actually though he contracted leprosy the cause of death was tuberculosis. This same error is on the base of his statue in front of the Capitol building in Honolulu. I would also like to question another recent statement in the stars and stripes in february approximately caption under a picture said Crispus Attucks was the first person to die for americans Freedom. Attucks was one of five people w to died in the Boston massacre he was shot twice and based on a description of the entry wounds and a memory of Anatomy from serving As an army medic 40 years ago i would say he probably died of puncture of both lungs. I have never found a description of the exit wounds. If this is True Nis wounds would not necessarily have been immediately fatal. However another victim Samuck Gray reportedly fell immediately when lie was shot. From descriptions in the., trial records of the Case i would say it is Likely that Gray died before Attucks -. I also question setting the Boston massacre to Mark the first deaths for american Freedom. Just a few Day earlier a 12-Ycar-pld boy died under similar circumstances in Boston the main difference being that he was killed by a customs agent rather than a uniformed Soldier. Also these events took place six years before the declaration of Independence was signed. In fact Between the time of the Boston massacre and the signing Thomas Jefferson the author of the declaration was a British legislator. Those involved in the events considered the Boston massacre a shooting of British civilians by British soldiers and not involving a strike for Freedom. Soldiers involved were tried by a British court and punished by British officials they were defended by John Adams who is remembered As an Early american Patriot. A while i do enjoy catching errors i also enjoy paying compliments. In that vein May i say what an outstanding Job the stars and stripes did on covering the Normandy observances. And i would like to say Bow much i have enjoyed your thursday travel inserts during the five years i have been in Germany. I often clip them and Send them to people Back in the states a Gene Phillips Frankfurt Germany Hanau clothes store tops this is the first time i have written. I had to write this letter so that i could Tell everyone that the Hanau staff at the Mili. Tary clothing sales store is no. 1. We walked into the store with a problem that no other clothing store could solve. When we told the Hanau staff of. Our problem they quickly went to work and did not let us go until they had taken care of finding us the uniform we needed. They arc professional and know about their jobs. They not Only took special care of us but of each and every Soldier who walked in. Out. Of 14 years of visiting military clothing Sale stores Hanau has proven to be the Best. For the other clothing sales stores you can try and prove me wrong your customers would love it. A 1st sgt. Jerry Reid Lan Stuhl Germany write cafes a godfathers for the past few months in be been Reading the mass of letters about the almost mafia like antics of the army and air Force Exchange service. I do of course agree with each and every one but i also believe we arc beating a dead t horse. Every Soldier and family member should know by now that cafes is Little More than a Corner of the Market rip off. If readers Are so Bent on writing letters then i think they should Start writing the ones that count. Start sending those puppies to the a top dogs in the cafes family. Cafes already knows it is conducting Highway robbery operations and so do All the readers of the stars and stripes. If you Send enough complaints to the right people things might change. So Start sending your letters to the a a godfathers of the cafes family. Let the letters to the editor Section return to the Normal humorous maddening enlightening thing it used to be. A sgt. . Woodhams Schweinfurt Germany / editors note we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us. Letters expressing readers View Points or opinions Are published Dally on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone  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 country code 49 06155-601463, Dan 348-8463. Commentary 1 Clinton response to Rwanda justified by the new York Tinics the 2 million terrified rwandans who have fled to neighbouring countries Are now dying at the rate of one a minute for Lack of Safe water and sanitation facilities cholera threatens the makeshift Camps that have sprung up around the zairian town of Goma. President Clinton who on Friday called it the worst humanitarian crisis in a generation has finally begun to respond with the Energy this widening disaster demands. Obviously As Clinton stressed the first need is to assure the survival of rwandans most of them huts who have formed human Rivers flowing across frontiers. He promises that an Aerial Armada flying round the clock to Entebbe Uganda will Airlift food water and Medicine to. Various Camps. Crossing another important threshold the president is sending . Troops to Monitor the humanitarian operation. If Only Washington had done half As much before this human flood crested. Still Rwanda is at last getting priority attention. As Clinton said the essential corollary to the humanitarian Airlift is to create conditions within Rwanda that will. Permit refugees to return. In what could be a Long term commitment he promises logistical support for a full contingent of in. Peacekeepers to help that process along Clinton properly holds out a hand to the Tutsi led Rwanda patriotic front which began As a rebel Force but is now the governing authority in Kigali the capital. But wisely he stipulates three conditions for . Recognition the formation of a Broad based government re. Spect for the Rule of Law and a policy of reconciliation with the majority huts. Since the new regime has already named huts As president and prime minister and since the patriotic front agreed last year to a settlement based on reconciliation the . Conditions seem just and realistic. The very scale of the response the president is mobilizing should begin to reassure rwandans who took flight after hearing venomous and hysterical broadcasts warning that insurgent armies were Bent on Slaughter. There is Strong evidence that the most Savage killings were perpetrated by the former regime and that patriotic front commanders have done what they could to prevent reprisal massacres. Specialists plausibly argue that years of living and fighting in Uganda where ethnic strife has been tamed by reconciliation has moderated the fronts leadership. All this will soon be put to the test along with urgent efforts by the , High commissioner for refugees to persuade those fleeing to return. Nobody can say for certain what will now happen to the a Safe area in Southern Rwanda established by 2,500 French troops who Are to withdraw soon. But after a faltering Start in which the United states seemed unable even to Supply personnel carriers to Rwanda Clinton has initiated something very like president Bush a operation provide Comfort which helped save the lives of a half million kurd who fled their Homes in Iraq. But nato allies were major helpers then and could assuredly contribute More in Rwanda today. Mean time the president needs and deserves Public support at Home. You think Jhb Val fear won j an acquittal Hsk you Pip Ore at Joan a a Pont worry a0outhim. \ were Nowita y that that jury tent coming pack a us eth guilty verbs cts no wat innocent Hock Gould you think they re innocent / instinct i just ukr pts Cut of their jibs