European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse M 1 a i sunday november 20, 1994 what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from across Section of newspapers throughout the United states. The editorials Are provided by the associate press Scripps Howard news service and other state Side syndicates. Los Angeles times relations Between the United states and its nato allies particularly the British have become progressively More strained Over Bosnia in recent months. But a critical Point May have been reached last week when the Clinton administration terminated in the enforcement of a bosnian arms embargo. I. Will the United states sacrifice nato to its Bosnia policy or will the nato allies sacrifice nato to theirs who needs nato anymore intransigence on both sides helped along by a russian veto in the Security Council May yet succeed in fragmenting an Alliance that held up through All the strains of the cold War a remarkable consequence of what some persist in calling a Mere civil War. New York times in recent years . Arms have poured into Greece and Turkey making them two of the biggest recipients of America s lethal largesse. What is the United states getting in return Greece continues to impose an economic embargo on neighbouring Macedonia threatening to destabilize the newly Independent Balkan Republic and jeopardize the lives of hundreds of american peacekeepers stationed there. Turkey meanwhile still provides bases for .aircraft to patrol Northern Iraq and protect iraqi kurd but it is not enforcing the . Embargo on Iraq vigorously. At the same time Turkey has escalated its War against its own kurdish minority turning Southeastern Turkey into a free fire Pentagon euphemistically refers to the flow of arms to Turkey As cascading Asif it redoing what conies naturally. Yet there is nothing natural about arming allies who act increasingly against .interests. The flow of arms to both countries should cease. Parkersburg . News the american people remain Grumpy about politic because More and More people Are realizing just How disconnected government has become from their daily lives. Many incumbent democrats Learned about that dissatisfaction firsthand during the election. This is Only partly about issues. It is also to a Large extent about self dealing by the governing elite. In the private sector if you want to make More Money you be got to work harder and smarter or find a different Job. In the government sector you just ram through another tax increase or let the deficit soar. Providence . Journal bulletin the pundits keep proclaiming that a beast called the american people is enraged at its government. If Many Are angry about government what is it precisely that angers them Many May. Be angry at themselves for demanding various conflicting programs. Some citizens must feel the psychic tension Between seeking the Protection nay the expansion of Ever swelling government programs As medicare and social Security All the while pointing to the horrors of the Federal right wingers swear allegiance to social Security and medicare. While condemning government intrusion into the Economy. For that matter most politicians these Days assail pork eve while protecting tobacco Price supports free Gold mining on taxpayer owned land Cost plus defense contracts and so on. San Luis Obispo county Calif Telegram Tribune the big Story of the. Elections is that republicans have scored so Many gains that they have become the majority party in both the House and Senate. Unfortunately there s another Story about phenomenon that continues to get worse from election to is the now broadly adopted system of negative campaigning. The political Wisdom in campaigning particularly on the National level is that the Best Way to get votes is tobit your opponent on a personal level As often As you can and As hard As you can. Never mind about telling people Why you should be elected. Commentary the stars and stripes Page 23 to sends w its or knew jute chamberian eni Sitf Joplin to Globe few things will be More important to establishing the credibility of a new Republican Congress committed to changing the old Way of doing things on Capitol Hill than launching a sweeping Reform of How political business is conducted. One reason that voters turned control of Congress Over to republicans this election s that they Are tired of hearing talk of Reform emanating from Capitol Hilland Seldom if Ever seeing any meaningful changes. It is time that Congress reforms itself. Dally Jefferson county Union fort Atkinson wis some Are Labelling the election Campaign the dirtiest Ever with name calling and muckraking and the telling of outright lies. Others Are pointing to it As a mandate for conservatism and yet others Are saying it was a signal to politicos of All persuasions that enough is enough. What s especially interesting is that the same things Are being said overseas.". The global fascination with american politics i surprising to no one but americans. Just As foreigners seem to know More about . History than .citizens do persons from other countries also follow american politics More closely than a majority of americans. In the global marketplace knowledge is Power. And if we Don t watch out America could very Well fall off it Pedestal. St. Petersburg Fla times the 1994 election one of the Nastiest Ever also waste most expensive midterm election in history with the total in the hundreds of millions of dollars evenbefor5the final accounting. Obscene amounts of Money were spent. Campaign finance reforms of the Type Congress considered this year can t address All of the excess served up in this election. Toledo Ohio for those whose knowledge of american intelligence operations one always Hopes that is not an oxymoron is limited to the perusal of the Ever entertaining Tom Clancy novels the Senate intelligence committee report on superspy Aldrich Ames should be instructive. It is a wonder the United states survived the cold War Given the decades Long Effort of the soviet intelligence apparatus to penetrate its opposite number in this country. Augusta chronicle Congress and former president Bush thought the struck a blow for education and against violence with passage of the popular gun free school zone act in1990. It bans gun Possession within 1,000 feet of the nation s schools. More recently president Clinton signed an executive order requiring expulsions for up to one year of students who take guns to school another popular move. After All who does t want to come Down Hardon gun toting students but dealing with students is a local business does Washington have butting in. Greenville . News the terrible ordeal of the Small Central Africa nation of Rwanda still in t Over even though the country s plight has slipped from International awareness in recent weeks. A new round of fighting would put pressure on the United nations to intervene. According to the new. York times the Clinton administration favors the deployment of a Large . Force in Zaire although it in t Clear what role the administration envisions Tor any american troops there. Washington Post. With the Pacific agreement to move to free Trade the United states has made important Progress in a cause that it has vigorously supported for half Century. Trade has contributed mightily to rising Prosperity Inthis country and throughout the world. But the meeting in Indonesia also heard less eagerly about another longstanding american cause human rights that most asian governments consider unrelated to economics. � "-.". Star Tribune newspaper of the twin cities Man Neapolis St. Paul a As if the impending Republican takeover of the .house and Senate was t bad enough for president Clinton ratification of the Gatt Accord the on major piece of unfinished congressional business on which the president might expect firmer support from Republican than democrats must be vote on before the end of the year while the democrats still hold majorities in both houses and while triumphant republicans might More than Ever be in a mood to impose gridlock. But if Ever there was an Issue on which Congress Republican or Democrat should Rise above partisanship it s this the United states the Gatt Accord is the door to the world marketplace a door that can Only reopened by congressional ratification. Christian science Monitor Boston As in the . Simpson Case almost the entire nations at least partly conversant with the Story from Union .,. Where the Mother has confessed to lying onto to cover up her murder of her two children. Yet despite the Aber Rance of a crime and the Shock involved perhaps this crime at this period is sadly not so surprising. In a sense that is the Point. This period Sadl tolerates a Quality of detachment from previous standards. Susan Smith s crime is grotesque but How Many other children out there Are now neglected Serenas inconvenient there is a great and needful cry today for family values and for proper care of children. Yet How shallow this cry is if it is Only mouthed As political rhetoric. ,1rt
