European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 31, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 13st. Louis Post dispatch what 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 and Scripps Howard news  science Monitor Boston Veteran spaceflight watchers May have Felt a twinge of Dejavu. The United states has just celebrated the Silver anniversary of the first project Apollo Moon Landing while modern orbiting astronauts tended pregnant newts and hatching fish. In terms of spaceflight technology the shuttle is an enormous Advance beyond the cramped Apollo Craft. But in terms of spaceflight policy the United states is stuck right where it was. The United states needs to learn to be a True International partner. In an International program. The costs would be on a scale the National budget can afford and then America probably would find its Long sought political consensus for spaceflight  Union Albany . In Northern Israel the skies were filled with children a balloons and kites each one an invitation to jordanian children to join in a Celebration for peace. Peace is what Many jordanian adults apparently want As Well. In droves they ignored the strident Calls of Muslim extremists who sought to thwart the historic meeting in Washington Between Jordan a King Hussein and israelis prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. With a stroke of the pen the two leaders wiped away generations of enmity and paved the Way for an eternal treat los Angeles times it was an occasion that called for eloquence and vision and the key participants did not disappoint. President Clinton King Hussein of Jordan and prime minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel All spoke words fitting to the solemnity Good will and Promise of the moment As the two Middle Eastern leaders agreed on a declaration ending a state of belligerency nearly half a Century old. For both this was an act of National self interest an Opportunity finally and after great Cost to establish Normal and mutually beneficial ties across their Long Borde Valley Dally news Kent Wash. A catastrophe is unfolding in Goma Zaire after More than 1 million rwandans poured into refugee Camps that were ill prepared to Deal with the Quot flood of  _. Without a massive humanitarian Relief Effort by the United states and other wealthy nations the death toll from disease and starvation among the refugees in Zaire and other nations bordering strife torn Rwanda could be beyond imagining. But the United states and other wealthy nations of the world must do what they can a and quickly a to Lessen this terrible  wis Northwestern president Clinton proposes to step up humanitarian Aid for the refugees irom Rwanda. That is the Type of american response to suffering that is in the highest tradition. R it is unfortunate that he is being criticized for not responding sooner and with More Aid. It is impossible to step into a situation such As in Rwanda where rival forces Are killing everyone in sight without getting embroiled in the fight. It will be a tremendous Effort to restore these people to health but the United states through its Airlift capabilities will make that Effort. Blade cite zen Oceanside Calif. Haiti. Rwanda. Bosnia. People killed in their own Homes by their government for the crime of disagreeing. Parents hacked to death in front of their children. Schools shelled by artillery Crews. The horrors Shock our civilized sensibilities and gnaw at our hearts. No one can watch the violent depravity is in living color on television and not be changed not scream out for the nightmares to Stop. It May very Well be that the Best we can do in such situations is provide humanitarian Aid feed the hungry care for the wounded and sick clothe the cold. But it is becoming increasingly Clear that what we cannot do is impose Success no matter How defined from the  Ard Moelte Ardmore okla. The anti striker replacement Bill refuses to die. Despite the fact the american people opposed this Bill by a 2-1 margin it passed the . House and Senate. It took a filibuster on the Senate floor to keep this unhealthy Bill from becoming Law. Now this Multi headed Hydra May surface once again., the right to work to earn a living and provide for your family should be As Basic As the Freedom of speech Ana  Wheeling . Two years ago vice president Dan Quayle set off a storm of controversy by declaring that fictional television character Murphy Brown should not have been portrayed As having a baby out of Wedlock. The Media uproar Over Quayle s remarks is in Sharp contrast to the reaction recently a hardly a Ripple a to a statement by Donna Shalala president Clinton a Liberal Secretary of health and human services. For those who now find themselves in the position of having to solve the problems created by the practice of paying children to have children Quayle a remarks have become words of  . News pompous Federal Highway administration officials said awhile Back that they would educate americans into accepting the conversion of Highway signs to the metric system. Well a grand thing about education is that it can at times go both ways. The Clinton administration is backing off the conversion which was to have been completed by 1996, after Many americans made it Clear they done to care How Many Kilometres it is from Greenville to Charleston . Or from Fargo n.d., to rapid City  metric is a Good idea. Unfortunately it May be True that americans will learn metrics before bureaucrats unlearn . Paul Minn Pioneer press Woodstock �?T94, the conglomerate with a 900 number and Cable pay per View arrangements sure does no to ride like a yellow submarine. The music festival set for aug. 13-14 never was going to look like its 1969 inspiration the definitive counter cultural happening in the age of aquarius. The calculated extravaganza leaves us tempted to warn never Trust anyone under 30. The under-30 crowds footprints Are All Over both Woodstock neither of which strikes us As worthy of the hype. We May tune in for a video glimpse like going to a class reunion to see who is fat who is Rich who got smarter. But Woodstock was yesterday. And yesterdays gone. A what does red smell like no two answers Are Likely to match of course and even any one person will have a different reply depending on whether the red comes from peppers or strawberries or roses. Now Binney amp Smith co., the Crayola people has added scents to its colors in a special Crayon pack with miniature odor capsules that explode on Impact with paper. Frankly the idea smells. Children will surely of enchanted by a whiff of chocolate bananas or Bubble gum As they struggle to stay inside the lines. But every color that is matched by a smell is a color More tightly limited than before. And leaves one less sense to the imagination. Artificial reality even at this Low tech level can go too  miss press fee Ulster watching the health care scene unfold in Washington is scary indeed with Congress pressuring itself to do something right or wrong. The Prospect of another Federal bureaucracy running our health care system is a Nightmare. And in the Middle of the grand debate we find if we did no to already know that Congress and All Federal. Employees have a health care system much Superior to that of private America. Before the health care reformers ruin or complicate everything that is right about health care in America. Why not let americans at least have the Freedom that Congress and Federal employees have a a consumer Choice health plan Washington Post Haley Barbour the Republican National chairman blew up at the television networks the other Day. Here was Ross Perot kind enough to Shell out $1 million to buy two half hours of network time for the republicans to make their Case against president Clinton a health plan and the networks  sell the time. We have not noticed or. Barbour or Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole a a permanent guest on the sunday to shows a having trouble making their Case. Clearly stations and networks Are and should be free to decide what time   when  sell it. No network can be expected to blow out its to rated shows so or. Barbour or or. Perot can go on the air. Consistency is a reasonable answer to or Barbour especially since the democrats also had trouble buying air. Time on health care. The networks can defend their reluctance to turn Over the airwaves to advocacy ads so Long As All advocates Are treated  York times talks on a treaty to ban nuclear tests around the world resume. M Geneva with Little indication that they will be Given the urgency they deserve. It will take a Strong push from president Clinton to move the talks along. An injection of Energy into the talks might bring a ban into effect by August 1995 a 50 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki