European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 11, 1994 commentary the stars and what 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 Scripps Howard news service and other state Side syndicates. Morning journal Martinsburg w. A. Americans always figure that Money can make everything of. That s Why turncoat . Sen. Richardc. Shelby of Alabama is offering to give anyone who contributed to his recent Campaign As a Democrat forthe United states Senate his or her Money Back. Shelby who switched from the democratic party to the gop apparently discovered Only after the republicans got control of the Senate that his first party the democrats was too Liberal. The time to switch parties for elected officials i before not after they run for office. What. Shelby should do is give All of his $2.8 million Back to the contributors and resign in shame. St. Paul Minn Pioneer press Call it a preemptive strike against the enemy that controls Congress after republicans campaigned for dramatically More defense spending. President Clinto will be asking for a $25 billion increase in military spending Over the next six years to arid the Quality of life for servicewomen Page 23 men. The president s proposals show both reality an reluctance to break the Bank. The $25 billion goes into a context of a projected $40 billion shortfall Over five years created by a required pay raise and by inflation. This year s defense budget was $264 billion. He has found a Good place to Start the budget Battles. New York times for political reasons the Clinton administrations rank from cutting the Pentagon budget when it had the Chance to do so in the last two years. Now for the same reasons it is engaged in a bidding War with the Republican controlled Congress to spend More than the current $252 billion. Clinton canno outbid the gop which is prepared to spend still More. But there is a Downside that the republicans ought to recognize too. More military spending puts their Agenda of tax cuts and deficit reduction at serious risk. Oregonian Portland Ore look out. Here comes the die hard b-2 bomber. Backers of the batwing stealth bomber of which Theair Force already has ordered 20, Are gearing up to _ push Congress for 20 More at a fixed Cost bargain Price of $570 million each. With All the dramatic Cost cutting ideas being floated Congress by the new gop majority Here s a suggestion for one More resolve to judge expensive weapons systems such Ashe b-2 on Clear military Mission and Clear military need not As Home District Job and welfare programs. Milwaukee journal there s a cruel irony in watching congressional leaders who campaigned on family values now advocating policies sure to undermine families. Vet that will be the outcome if Republican lawmakers pursue proposals to Send children of welfare moms to orphanages. There is a role for new orphanages but not the role these schemes suggest. Orphanages could provide a last resort for neglected and abused kids who need a Safe and supportive setting to thrive. For the most part though the Best Hope for children lies with families and it is keeping families together that should be the focus of Public policy Post and courier Charleston . The Senate did the right thing in agreeing to legislation that clears the Way for the United states to participate in the new world Trade agreement. The Senate action sets the stage for International economic Competition Over the next decade stretching into the 21st Century. But As the Senate debate made Clear the new agreement under the general agreement on Trade and tariffs Gatt is not the coming of the fabled millennium. It should be improved upon in the future. A. Sun \ a Baltimore the world will be a smaller and better place Star Tingas Early As Jan. 1, because of the bipartisan Wisdom of three presidents and the 103rd Congress in enacting the world Trade Accord expanding the general agreement on tariffs and Trade which began in 1947 ". Presidents Reagan Bush and Clinton can be proud of this grand achievement. Democratic and Republican leaders of the 103rd Congress can take satisfaction that its final act was passage of Gatt Star free press. Ventura Calif. Like an errant Driver who keeps swerving from oneside of the Road to the other the . Postal service keeps one illogical Price for first class Stamps to a Price that is equally illogical. Having a first class postal rate that rounds out to uneven Nickel makes the Purchase of Stamps far More convenient for everyone involved. Tulsa okla world the huge Timber company Georgia Pacific and the nature conservancy have joined to protect 21,000 acres of North Carolina forests. The Hardwood Bottom land areas on the lower Roanoke River comprise one of the most valuable ecosystems in the Southeastern unite states ,. One of the Good things Likely to come of the recent Republican takeover of Congress is an end to the crazier kinds of business busting Environ mentalism. Government involvement in environmental Protection should be moderated but this does not mean there is no need to protect valuable habitats. Arrangements like this one will become event More important in the future. Record courier Kent Ravenna Ohio acquired immune deficiency syndrome has become the Black plague of the 20th Century killing and affecting millions and unfortunately despite recent strides in prolonging imminent death there seems to be no end to the brutal disease world aids Day which top place dec. 1was Aday set aside for everyone in the world to Wake up and realize the effect this horrendous disease has on everyone. Some however still feel that aids will never affect them. They could t be More wrong. Daily news Longview Wash. A few congressional republicans elevated by a angry electorate from minority to majority status. Are having second thoughts about their previous commitment to term limits. These doubters Are found among the leaders of the new Congress the career politicians that advocates of term limits want to replace with citizen incoming House speaker Newt Gingrich is one of them he does t say hell oppose term limits. He merely suggests that term limits should t apply retroactively to current members of Congress. In other words term limits should not apply to Gingrich who has just won a ninth term in the House of representatives. Los Angeles times. I have Here in my hand a list of 205 persons that were known to the Secretary of state As being members of the communist party and who nevertheless Are still working and shaping the policy of the state department. Sen. Joseph Mccarthy feb. 9,1950 i had a senior Law enforcement official Tell me that in his judgment up to a Quarter of the White House staff when they first came in had used drugs in the last four or five rep. Newt Gingrich dec. 4,1994 if the political education of americans has taught anything in the last four decades it s that unattributed allegations of misconduct puffed up with impressive sounding numbers that no one else has Ever seen Are Best treated with extreme caution if not outright doubt and rejection. Washington Post on to speaker to be Newt Gingrich loosed the charge that up to a Quarter of the White House staff when they first came in had used drugs in the last four or five i m not making any allegations of any individual person he went on to say but either you have the evidence for a charge like that or you Don t make it. -. Blade Ohio " the willingness by the . Supreme court to consider whether Public schools Nave the right to drug test student athletes is a Clear indication that this country is getting serious about keeping drugs away from children. _. ,. The supreme court should have no trouble recognizing that he fourth amendment was not intended to keep parents and schools from safeguarding the lives of children. Pittsburgh Post Gazette president Clinton will have to make some compromises with the new Republican majority in Congress but he Bent too far and too fast m looking favourably on a gop proposal for a school prayer amendment to the . Constitution. Although the president has no role in Congress action on constitutional amendments he does still occupy a bully pulpit on this Issue. He should have us edit and his personal belief in the Power of prayer to warn against any tampering with the Bill of rights v
