European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16letters to the editor saturday August 13,1994the european edition col. Stevens Hoffman Usa commander publisher a Bernard a. Zovistoski editor. News and editorial Deborah aether nows editor Bill Walker european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George Manes City editor a to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 111437 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. Sports ext. 225,269, 263, 332,321,221. Features pm. 230, 245,341. Letters to editor pm. 208. Education Jim Jones pm. 226. Business news pm. 326. 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Classified Germany 06155-601349, Dan 348-8349. Advertising Tel fax 06155-601412 a please Recycle a a a this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members o the military services overseas. Contents of the stars and stripes do not. Necessarily reflect the official views of or endorsement by the . Government the department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of advertising in this publication including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorsement by the department of defense or the stars and stripes of the products or services  lacking first i would like to take the Opportunity to say that your coverage of the european championship Little league baseball has been first rate. It is Nice to see that the stars and stripes has provided the space in the sports Section to coverage of the four european baseball championship tournaments held in Germany and Italy stripes has done a very Good Job providing up to Date scores and write  of the baseball games. What happened to the coverage of the european championship for the Little league softball tournaments the senior league and major league championship tournaments were played july 11-16 in Svoboda czech Republic and your Only coverage to Date was one sentence july 9 saying that the Germany tournament was completed and the teams were selected but it did not say which military communities they represented and the tournament dates. The military communities of Naples in Italy and Span Dahlem Stuttgart and Wiesbaden in Germany fielded a total of six teams for the two european championship tournaments. Stripes did not cover the results of either of these tournaments. Nor did you provide any coverage for last years european championship for Little league softball or the year before that. A Little league baseball is comprised of about 98 percent boys where Little league softball is 100 percent girls. You have left yourself wide open to speculation As to Why your coverage every year of All the european championship baseball tournaments is done so Well and no coverage is provided for the european championship softball tournaments. A Michael Lahman Stuttgart Germany v c editors note j we encourage our readers a Espe daily those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us. Letters expressing readers viewpoints Are published Dally on this Page. All letters must be signed and induce address and Telephone number. Preference 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. S6nd to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax country code 49 06155-601-463, Dan 348-8463.thanks for a wonders readers Seldom see letters on this Page that do not include a variety of real or imagined grievances. Scarcely any unit has not been affected by recent reductions in Force and associated limitation of support activities so complaints often Are understandable if not justified. But this is not a letter of complaint. The staff of the Stuttgart community/. European come Library at Patch Barracks wishes to acknowledge a a the efforts of an individual not part of the Library staff who accepted the Challenge to oversee a project to re carpet and renovate a 10,000-Sauare-foot facility utilizing inexperienced untried part time volunteers and High school students for Many of whom it was the first gainful employment. Army master sgt. James Burks currently at Patch Barracks Between military assignments agreed to ramrod a summer hire outfit designated to Complete the project wonders were achieved. Through Burks leadership skills and expertise the team of neophyte labourers provided results virtually indistinguishable from that which could have been achieved by a team of professional carpet layers and carpenters incidentally saving . Taxpayers More than $50,000 in renovation costs. Moreover on completion of the task the neophytes had themselves acquired unique and valuable skills. The Heartfelt gratitude of the Library staff is extended to Burks. A Duane g. Nahley Stuttgart Germany playgrounds in ruins my family and i live in base housing at Ramstein a and enjoy base living. We moved on base so our children could be around other children and could play in the Back Yard playgrounds that have been put up for their  Are so disgusted with the Way the children Are allowed to go out and destroy the playgrounds. They Are supposed to be supervised by an adult if under a certain age and a majority of the kids Are underage and unsupervised. Parents Are sending their children out and the children Are destroying the playgrounds to the Point that they can t be enjoyed by other children. How Are children supposed to learn to respect what is not theirs if they Are allowed to do this even the parents done to care what their children Are doing if they Arentt in their sight. If we were to take All the playgrounds away from the children you can bet a lot of parents would be complaining because their kids done to have a place to play. Well my kids done to have a place to play now because of their kids. I would like for my children to be Able to enjoy the playgrounds instead of watching them being destroyed. Hopefully some parents might read this and then look out their windows and see what the children Are doing out there and if they see a child tearing something up say something to  Are the adults Arentt we a Renee Synakiewicz a Ramstein a German commentary . Fumbling As broker in ethnic Battle by the Washington Post of All the ethnic and regional conflicts crackling within the former soviet Union in Only one a Armenia is. Azerbaijan a does the United states have a formal settlement role through the a Minsk group set up by the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. Its a matter of special regret then that the Clinton administration has yet to take full advantage of this rare opening to offer diplomatic leadership in a place of desperate need. This is the right moment too. At this late stage where the two sadly battered combatants have just formalized a cease fire two negotiating tracks contend a a a a a a a one is an Effort by Russia to mediate a settlement on its own. This would involve putting russian troops protectively into Azerbaijan currently the one former soviet Republic with no russian troops on its territory and re establishing control of the former soviet Frontier with Turkey and Iran. The main a a achievement of the russian Effort so far is to undercut what could yet become the More inviting Csc track. But the flagging Csc bid also suffers from american hesitation. Washington has not replaced the full time special envoy who earlier served in the a Minsk  it has lagged in figuring out ways to use Azerbaijan soil riches As an instrument of regional peace. Nor is it making the most of the fact that Armenia would finally prefer an International it military presence to a russian one. It seems that on this Issue As on some others the Clinton administration has not wanted to put itself at Cross purposes with  is All very Well but the effect is to give an opening to the tendency in Russia that favors restoration of the old Empire. In one further Way the United states has reduced its own usefulness in the Armenia Azerbaijan conflict. Over the protests of two administrations successive congresses have allowed an armenian american lobby to ride roughshod Over the american interest in hastening a political settlement. This is How american Law forbids assistance to Azerbaijan though some humanitarian Aid flows through private agencies even As Congress earmarks $75 million for Armenia. This is raw ethnic politics. It is unfair. It inhibits Washington a capacity to play the honest broker in a con Elict where the United states has Strong reasons of Friendship and strategy to do so. 1 had the mmnp6st conversation us eth Ray last n/6ht, / after everything. That s come out about o.j., Ray actually still thinks he s innocent. A jell exactly. Can he get help poes he have coverage