European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 28, 1994 commentary hat 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 service. 1 i los Angeles times chilling evidence suggesting that nuclear material is being smuggled out of the former soviet Union for illicit Sale on world markets has prompted a new agreement Between Germany and Russia for closer cooperation to combat movement of the contraband. In the last four months such shipments have been intercepted in Germany the most recent on a Lufthansa flight from Moscow to Munich two weeks ago. Western scientists who examined that 10.5-ounce Cache of plutonium-239 believe it originated in Russia. But Moscow has emphatically denied any official laxity and in last week s agreement Germany diplomatically refrained from new Finger pointing. National Pride is clearly very much at Issue Here handsome in Russia have also hastened to charge that worries Over smuggled plutonium have been fabricated to justify Western intrusion into russian nuclear facilities. But the widespread breakdown in order and control sin Russia and the Rise of organized crime indicate that the theft and smuggling of nuclear material represent an All too plausible threat. Augusta a chronicle the . House of representatives democratic leadership took a bad crime Bill that wisely had been turned Down earlier this month and made just enough concessions to pass it with the help of 40 moderate republicans. Making a bad Bill a trifle less bad is not the answer to soaring violent crime rates in this country. Press Enterprise Riverside Calif. Supreme court Justice Sandra Day o Connor has chosen an Apt time. To warn of a danger to the Federal courts. She recently said that the adding of crimes which Are already offences under state Law to the . Code i moving toward Federal zing the crime problem.,. Adding More offences May do to the Federal court what has already been done to the state courts and that can Lead to the unintended leniency through plea bargains and Early releases that so offends the Public but is necessary for the courts and prisons to keep their Heads above water. Omaha neb world Herald a jury s verdict against Mcdonald s because its Coffee was too hot illustrates what is wrong with the american system of litigating product related injuries. Whatever happened to the idea of being accountable for our own misjudgments. Justice is not served when people turn to the courts to Deal with every Petty grievance. If people feel that fast food Coffee is too hot they should take up the matter with the restaurant a customers once did when the products or service did t suit them. Or they should take their business elsewhere. But leave the courts out of such matters. Charleston . Gazette some politicians never Stop trying to use the Power of government to impose their Brand of religion on Public school children. It s better for government to keep hands off religion advice versa attempts to turn government owned schools into churches Are fraught with risk. The founding fathers knew what they were doing when they called for a Wall of separation Between Church and state. Marietta Ohio times a difference in perception exists on How Well merchants Are complying with the americans with disabilities not everyone thinks a problem with compliance exists. Who s right in t important. What is important is that the letter and spirit of then a Law be followed to provide equal Access to everyone. The stars and stripes Page 23 daily Jefferson county Union fort Atkinson wis. A National running Magazine recently started a column entitled women s now segregating women in track and Field make sense since currently women cannot compete at the same athletic level As can men in these events. While it might be politically Correct these Days to play up and recognize these differences it seems that such an approach can Only drive people apart. By focusing on differences that should t make a difference it makes for segregation be it by gender sexuality race or ethnicity. On or off the track we should be looking at what behave in common not How we differ and work together from there. Washington Post the plan produced by what is called the mainstream health Reform group in the Senate has a couple of Strong Points though much of it is a disappointment. If the strengths can be developed and the weaknesses finessed in the negotiations that lie ahead the result could yet be a decent Bill. But it s an Uphill fight. Serious health care Reform requires Tough Steps that for the most part this proposal fails to take. Sun Baltimore in firing Benjamin f. Chavisjr. As executive director of the National association for the advancement of coloured people the venerable civil right organization s Board of directors bowed to the inevitable and did what was necessary. Mercifully the Board acted swiftly and decisively to limit the damage what drove the Board to dismiss Chavis was neither his program nor the allegations against him but the fac that he kept his own organization in the dark regarding matters crucial to its financial stability and moral credibility. In effect he put his own interest ahead of that of the institution. No Leader can do that and Hope to be successful. Chavis is a fighter and he May yet find a Way to make important contributions to the struggle for equal Justice for All americans. But he was the wrong Man for the a act. St. Paul Minn Pioneer press it should not be a Surprise that former narc executive director Ben Chavis is a controversial figure. During his life As an outspoken civil rights activist he has frequently challenged the system and pushed the civil rights envelope. A combination of issues has turned Chavis into lightning Rod for division and dissent. The a act could not afford that kind of organizational paralysis. New York times president Clinton s abrupt reversal of 28 years of cuban refugee policy looked Clumsy enough but remade it worse. Seeking to punish Fidel Castro for unleashing the latest refugee tide Clinton ended up also punishing Ordinary cubans. He Cut off All Cash support from their relatives in the United states rather than the 50 percent Cut originally announced. By raising the temperature on Cuba when it should be trying to Cool it the administration could yet convert a rhetorical emergency into a real one. Cloves . News journal is Fidel Castro s totalitarian regime seeing its last Crimson Days in Cuba perhaps. The Best Way and probably the gentlest Way to push Castro from Power would be to drop the . Trade embargo against the Island. With the embargo gone Castro no longer could blame Cuba s economic maladies on the Yankees. It would be Clear that All Cuba s problems were his fault. Times Union Albany . The Clinton administration is warning loudly that it might blockade and by definition declare War against the Island of Cuba. Why to encourage Fidel Castro White House chief of staff Leon Panetta said to begin taking meaningful Steps toward democracy. What whoa. Where did that policy come from and Why now if it s a question of finding a Way to Stop the flow of refugees from Cuba into Miami there Are other easier and More obvious ways to do that. Clinton is readying himself to deliver the fatal shove and thus he must imagine Garner accolades for overthrowing that bastion of communism that has bedevilled . Presidents for More than three decades. Scripps Howard new service a historic endorsement of the slow motion revolution launched by president Carlos Salinas de Gortari mexicans turned out in unexpectedly Large numbers in its National elections. Overwhelmingly they voted for presidential candidates Fay Oring change. The easy Winner Ernesto Zedillo is Salinas hand picked successor. Both men represent the Pri the institutional revolutionary party which has governed Mexico for 65 years. But both embody the Pri reformist Wing. A Yale trained economist the 42-year old Zedillo vows to carry Forward the landmark privatization of state companies opening to foreign Trade and investment and democratization that Salinas launched. The results Are a tribute to the achievements of Carlos Salinas. His policies tamed inflation brought Anear doubling of per capita income in six years and tripled two Way Trade with the United states. Huge challenges remain for Ernesto Zedillo but with Luck and with the country behind him Mexico May keep moving ahead
