European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jurf nday september 11, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 23 that newspapers fare 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 Scripps Howard news and other stateside Syndi cates.". Christian science Monitor / Boston in dealing with Cuba the time has Long passed to Exchange a Don Quixote approach to diplomacy. Unfortunately the United states and Cuba have missed several opportunities during the past few years to put relations on a More progressive if still Boulder strewn path. One result thousands of cubans Are fleeing the Island Fidel Castro s growing isolation and political vulnerability in the face of his country s economic collapse Are palpable. There is hatred for Castro among Many members of the Well organized financially successful arid politically Active exile communities on the . East coast. Although such passions should not be allowed to steer Washington s response to its Island neighbor they continue to do so. Having claimed Victory i the cold War Washington is in a Strong position. It has Little to lose by holding talks with Cuba. Rapid City . Journal the Clinton administration increased the drumbeat toward a military invasion of Haiti when state and defense department officials declared that . Troops Are going to Haiti. The United states has no vital interest in Haiti and the International Community is not threatened by its instability. So Why invade new York times Newt Gingrich has a secret. The House Republican whip outspoken when it comes to pointing out ethical lapses by congressional democrats refuses to reveal contributors to Ropac the big political action committee he Heads. Among the dozens of current and former lawmakers who maintain such leadership pics Only the partisan from Georgia does no disclose where he gets the Money. There is plenty to disclose too judging by recent reports in the Wall Street journal and the capital Hill newspaper Roll Call. Fund raising documents obtained by these publications show that numerous wealthy donors with a stake in Federal legislation. Contribute to Ropac in chunks of $10,000 a year or More. Sixteen contributors have Given at least $100,000, Gingrich has Good reason to be embarrassed. But the shame Here is truly bipartisan. With House members of both parties Balking at accepting a Senate passed Campaign finance Reform butt Ahjit would bar leadership pics. Sunday oklahoman Oklahoma City How has the North american free Trade agreement worked out for the United states quite Well thank you. Latest Commerce department statistics show . Exports mushroomed 16.4 percent in the first half of 1994. And Mexico passed Japan As the second largest consumer of . Products. Only Canada consumes More . Goods. Remember Ross Perot s giant sucking sound As he predicted Naftal would destroy american jobs sounds More like jangling Cash Regis sri lighting up allover North America. Meanwhile the Economy and stability of Mexico continue to improve. Daily Jefferson county Union fort Atkinson wis. It used to be that if a woman had to go to work her Mother in Law or a next door neighbor would keep an Eye on the children. Today with a growing number of America s moms in the work Force there Aren t enough in Laws and friends to go around. The corresponding Boom in Day care providers has raised child care from a casual favor to a full time business. Along with that government has found it necessary to step in with guidelines on everything from Kitchen sanitation to the number of caretakers per youngster today s parents entrust their Little ones to what in Many cases amounts to perfect strangers. Mandating background checks in the licensing process can make sure those strangers Are indeed perfect. Austin Texas american statesman americans profess that anyone can get a Job and that Pont worry a Castro will Falla any minutes v. Now careers hinge on ambition Talent education and hard work. ,.  convictions have been abetted in the last three decades by statutes prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on race religion or gender. While people might assume that anti discrimination Laws also apply to sexual orientation that is not the Case. Nationally. Among the legislation that will be considered when Congress returns from its labor Day recess is the employment non discrimination act. The Bill which protects homosexuals from Job discrimination should be passed. It corrects possible injustices in the marketplace yet it creates no special rights or quota systems. Portsmouth Ohio daily times Joceyln elders just does t get it. Comments made by the surgeon general suggest that perhaps it is time she got on with her lifers work. In testimony at her son s drug trial in Little Rock ark., elders questioned whether her son s cocaine Selling was a crime despite the fact that he admitted making the transaction and also that he had a decade Iong drug habit. While elders May have personal reasons for wanting to legalize certain drugs in her professional capacity however Long that May continue we expect her to respect and support existing Laws. N Clarion Ledger Jackson miss. History and accurate historical texts is something americans take for granted. But in Russia the chronicle of. Lives was a  under the old soviet Rule. Now three years after russians stormed the streets pulling Down statutes of Lenin and demanding Freedom russian children Are finally getting textbooks that Don t toe the communist party line. The new textbooks address for the first time the bolsheviks killing of Czar Nicholas ii and the soviets expulsions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents. And the massive executions Lenin ordered which had been in the old texts the will of the people Are now the greatest tragedy of  at least american and russian history will Start to jibe. Now did Washington really Cut Down that Cherry tree Wheeling . News Register members of a High ranking us. Trade delegation recently were assured that chinese officials intend to ease human rights abuses. The Day after delegation members left Beijing a prominent dissident Leader was beaten up by chinese police. If nothing else chinese authorities May have set a new record for the time needed to break one More Promise on human rights abuses. Clearly promises mean nothing in Beijing. Chicago Tribune should girls be allowed to play High school football with boys males of a certain age Are Likely to find the idea unthinkable football is a grueling often violent Guys game and not at All a proper Domain for the so called weaker sex. Women particularly younger Home a accustomed to confronting traditional barriers in sports and society Are Likely to have a decidedly different View. Federal Law that fairly has opened Many doors for female athletes does not require that women be allowed to play Contact sports. Still last year 334 girl participated in High school football nationwide. The proper place to resolve this should be on the playing Field. If a girl is Good enough and Strong enough Shell make it and deservedly so. If not Shell drop out or ride the Bench along with the rest of the reserves. Washington Post George Mitchell and John Chafee & associates presupposed to use the next three weeks to see what if anything they can Salvage of health care Reform. It is at Best and at most a pretty dim Prospect. That product if there is one will clearly be less ambitious than. The Mammoth plan that president Clinton proposed last year. Is it possible nonetheless to imagine a Compromise that would split the Mitchell Chafee differences the answer is yes. The number of uninsured is now increasing every year. A Compromise Bill would interrupt that trend greatly reduce the pressure on hospitals and other institutions that now provide uncompensated care and buy some time to see How successful managed Competition can be at containing costs. The fact is that some kind of Bill could still be created that would make the health care problem in this country less acute. Dallas morning news it s High time that president Clinton and Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien sat Down to Chat. Canada is the largest buyer of . Exports and largest foreign destination of . Capital. It s our military ally and free Market partner. Yet Chretien is in office nine months and has had no formal one on one meeting with Clinton. This i atypical behaviour. The delay is understandable. Clinton dislikes foreign policy. Canadian politics dictate that Chretien appear aloof from his . Counterpart. But the time for excuses and procrastination is past. Vice president Al Gore in july Laid the groundwork for a Summit in Canada As Early As  Clinton should make it a priority. Atlanta Constitution so far this year the Economy has been generating mostly Good news Auto sales Are up unemployment is Down and exports Are growing. Yet for most of the year Stock Market investors had refused to cheer the Good reports. With every bit of cheery data interpreted As yet another sign that inflation would be heating up. This fear of inflation also caused currency traders to lose Faith in the . Dollar sending it to record lows. And prompt ing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates there was Only one problem wages and prices did not go up significantly. And the . Economy continues to expand without a lot of inflation. At last Wall Street is figuring out that America is great place to invest. As that realization spreads Stock Market prices have been shooting up