European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 letters to the editor tuesday August 16,1994 thes european edition col Steven & Hoffman Usan Corn Unander pub Sher Bernard a. Rov Stoski editor news and editorial Deborah Abner news editor by wafer european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George Man City editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 orposrfach11 1437 64278 Darmstadt German news Tel fax 061 55-601 46 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 34q-8 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237, 255, 282, 226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321221. Features ext. 230, 245, 341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. 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Advertising Tel fax 061 55-601 41 2 please Recycle this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication Tor members of the military services Oversea. Contents of the stars and stripes do not necessarily reflect the official View of or endorsement by. The . Government the department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of advertising in this Pum Cattan including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorse ment by the department of defense or the stare and stripes of the products or services advertised. The fans suffer it happened. We hoped it would to we prayed it would to and we sat around and assured one another it would come True. However America s pastime is once again holding its faithful fans at Bay. People say i see both sides of the argument and maybe the players Are get Ting the Short end of the  Are you kidding me i cannot believe that player think they have the right to audit the owners and then demand they be paid according to the owners profits . No Sal Ary Cap. When was the  time the neighbor Hood kid pumping Gas at the local garage demanded More Money based on the increased Revenue the owner was enjoying that is exactly what the players Are doing by denying the salary Cap that so Many professional sports have gone to. Whose business is it what the owners Are making god bless each one of them that is getting fat dumb and Happy Roll ing in the dough and pity if you care to the ones that Are losing their bids. The Bottom line is once again the fanfare suffering. The owners have their strike insurance and with Only six week left in the season they did just Fine this year already. Although the players Aren getting paid by their clubs i would t Nave a problem taking 4vi months Worth of even a Rookie s paycheck plus their endorsement checks Are still hitting their Bank accounts every second Friday. Who loses the people who think Jimmy key working the Corners is an Art form As opposed to a physical attribute the fan who thinks $3.50 for a hot dog is a great Deal just because he or she is at the Park and the die hards like myself who think 3 . In t really such Art outrageous hour to watch baseball on Amer ican forces network. This strike in t Over working conditions or benefits it comes Down to Dol Lars and cents and the players who truly believe they Are getting shafted at a mini mum salary of More than $100,000 a  was the last time you heard of a homeless ballplayer me either. Hey or. Mays or. Dimaggio , or. Clemente please teach these new Guys that you play the game because you love it Ana not because it buys fancy earrings with your Jersey number not be cause it buys a Brand new Mercedes Benz every year and not because you can get $6 for your autograph in the off season. Tell them you play it because you could t live without it because quite a few fans  to have a hard Tim without it and most of them will never even have the Opportunity to dig in tothe Batter s Box at dodger stadium. ,. By the Way or Fehr do you even like baseball capt. Cairl s. By Katterbach Germany feeling country i would like to respond to the article you be been running on the country Way of  the writer from Hanau stated that he gets irritated at people who Are narrow minded and  yet when he talks about line dancing he Falls face first into this category. I think the reason he does t like it i because he can t do it. Line dancing has been around for Over 100 years and willbe around for 100 More. As for being country Well being coun try is a lot More than roses and sunsets. Being country is a feeling. And when you have this feeling there s nothing else on Earth it would compare to. For those of you who feel you have to walk like John Wayne to be country wrong. Whether i Wear my boots or my sneak ers i m still country where am i from i m from the greatest country state in the West Wyoming. Richard Buskohl Darmstadt Germany cafes overpricing i can t believe that the army and air Force Exchange service wants to com pare taking Over the stars and stripes bookstores to when they took Over the class six stores. Prices have skyrocketed selection has dropped service has be come a thing of the past. Are they proud of this is this what Pecan expect for the bookstores maybe we need a few Navy exchanges nex up Here in cafes land. They seem to have done a much better Job wit the class six. I m sure someone at cafes can easily explain How & one liter bottle of  Canadian whiskey is being sold at $26, while the same bottle is being Solof at nex stores for $18. Jack Daniels goes for $20 at cafes $13.60 at nex. Who is watching How cafes prices things and How does the Navy do it better must be almost 100,000 people around Here wondering what else cafes is sell ing at inflated prices. If a nex opened in Germany cafes would be out of Busi Ness in six months. Mitch Duckworth Vaihinger Germany editor s note we encourage our readers especially those who have never submitted a letter 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 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. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax country code 49 06155-601 463, Dan 348-6463. Commentary democrats find tables turned on them by Scripps Howard news service what goes around comes around and the first democratic White House since 1980 is acquiring unwelcome experience with special prosecutors. It May be some Comfort to agriculture Secretary Mike Espy soon to be the target of a prosecutor All his own that such investigations have Seldom ended in indictments. Twice in the Carter administration and an astonishing eight times in the Reagan years special prosecutors also known As Independent counsels were named to examine the activities of High officials. Leaving aside the Well known Iran con tra affair these inquisitions produced a grand total of two indictments leading to a single conviction that withstood Appeal. They also damaged reputations even of those they exonerated labor Secretary Kay Donovan  Over six years attorney general de Meese was tackled by two separate special prosecutors arid bankrupted decent Public serv ants. Despite this record democrats led the charge to renew the Independent counsel Law earlier this year. Some must be ring the Day now that a weapon they Are used to seeing trained on conservative administrations is suddenly trained on theirs. The purpose of the statute is to make sure alleged wrongdoing by High executive Branch officials is thoroughly probed. The attorney general asks a Spe Cial three judge Federal court to select an Independent counsel who then has cart Eblanche. This unusual and we think unconstitutional arrangement now satisfies no one. Those not disillusioned by Lawrence Walsh s Over zealous Iran Contra probe Are up in arms at the court s decision last week to replace the counsel looking int Whitewater now comes Mike Espy s problem. The statute left the attorney general Little discretion Over whether to request an Independent counsel. If allegations Are made and there Are reasonable grounds to believe that further investigation is warranted the request must go Forward. In Espy s Case the allegations Are serious. He is accused of accepting favors for himself and a female companion from Arkansas based poultry processor. Tyson foods inc. While intervening to Block stiffened standards for poultry inspection. Espy denies he did anything improper. He has reimbursed Tyson for his own travel meals lodging and entertainment though not for those of his Friend Pat Ricia Dempsey. Perhaps Espy s alleged misdeeds will melt away like so Many supposed illegal payoffs to Ray Donovan. But for the time being there is cheerless Justice in seeing former fans of special prosecutors squirm j. Forgot to Ukia /7  Sliv we. / ii y iiaj0kjng my Mph starts in two hours