European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 18, 194 commentary the stars and stripes Page 23 state Columbia . 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. New York times the party that professes to support family values seems excessively eager to yank poor children away from their mothers and dump them in institutions. Republican proposals for welfare Reform suggest orphanages As an alternative to supporting Young single mothers with children of welfare for years and years. And Newt Gingrich the next House speaker has held up boys town the fabled orphanage in Nebraska As a Model Way to cafe for youngsters. Orphanages should Only be a last resort. The Best institution for raising children remains the family. Herald dispatch Huntington . Newt Gingrich the outspoken Georgia congressman soon to be speaker of the House of representatives has detonated another social controversy with a suggestion that More orphanages Are heeded for kids cast adrift by welfare cuts he would like to make. Gingrich and his colleagues on Capitol Hill should concentrate on reducing the number of children that need care outside the family Home and not about creating new orphanages and More problems at even greater expense. Vicksburg miss sunday Post pity parties Are All the rage inside the Beltway these Days. Talk show hosts and bleeding heart columnists Are going on and on about this mean spirited Newt Gingrich and these cruel republicans who May a punish poor mothers for haying  its pretty sickening. But what else can those in the Drivers seat for the past 40 years do the undisputed truth is that after 30 years and $3.5 trillion spent on Ever increasing entitlement programs poverty is More widespread than Ever. Today despite increasing Job Rolls and Tow inflation one american family in 10 relies on the other nine for sustenance. Albuquerque . Journal the next speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told a National television audience that up to one Quarter of. The White House staff has used drugs in the past four or five years. Gingrich said the source of his information was a senior Law enforcement official whom he would not name. A a in a not making any allegations of any individual person a he said a but. A by his vagueness Gingrich slandered everyone working in the White House. Newt Gingrich is no longer the Leader of a frustrated minority party. He needs to begin rehearsing his new role As statesman. Dally Freeman Kingston . A social Security is the Federal governments Cash cow spinning off multimillion Dollar surpluses against which the feds borrow to help finance deficits. The social Security system last reformed in 1983, is expected to run surpluses until the end of the Century. After that absent significant Reform actuaries paint an increasingly grim picture. E elected officials have Little Choice but to face up to the necessary reforms. Herald Everett Wash. Whether it proves the Low Point or just the beginning of Whitewater the guilty plea of a former top Justice department official is a shameful situation. Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion. He admitted that he stole at least $394,000 from clients and his former partners at the Arkansas Law firm where he worked with Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Clinton once referred to Hubbell As his closest Friend. Anyway you look at it that Snow a pretty sad. Statement for All concerned. Hubbell certainly did the president no favor in accepting the appointment As associate attorney general. There is no question that president Clinton needs to re Rig his ship of state which is listing to port to better Deal with an incoming Republican Congress and to accommodate the prevalent thinking of americans. But Lloyd Bentsen was the last major official he wanted to see go. From the Start the president has had a Man on the Bench to go in for Bentsen. He created the behind the scenes National economic Council to harmonize fiscal policy and gave the Job to Robert Rubin. They both wound up millionaires the texan from an insurance business in Houston and the new yorker from a major Wall Street investment  will be interesting to see if the Wall Street Wheeler dealer can score big in an Arena where they count votes before they count dollars. Omaha neb world Herald president Clinton has done Well so far to keep . Ground troops out of the deadly mess in Bosnia. There is no reason for him to change his mind now. Yet Clinton appears ready to order thousands of . Troops into one of the most horrific wars being waged today a the War in the Balkans. The United nations abysmal failure in the Region raises questions about what would happen to . Troops battling the same foe. Washington Post t he talk of nato earlier this month was of withdrawing United nations peacekeepers to Clear the decks for arming the bosnian and perhaps launching robust air strikes. But. The French and British principal contributors to the . Force and the americans looked hard at the greater suffering and wider War that would be the Likely immediate result of a pullout and flinched. There a a dire need for a tougher nato military response. The response now contemplated however keeps nato in the role of servant of the , and does not ask the . To alter the neutralise Light Force mandate that has defined its peacekeeping from the Start. A St. Louis Post dispatch give the political climate in Washington president Clinton had Little Choice but to fire surgeon general Joycel Yri elders. T a her outspoken manner has caused headaches before Ana if the president were stronger he might have been Able to withstand the certain criticism of her candid remarks about masturbation and sex education. With All of the other Battles the White House must be prepared to fight the one Over or. Elders just Wasny to Worth the Cost. Dado Toledo Ohio More than 20 years after Amtrak a creation the nations rail passenger system is struggling to keep its place Asi a vital component of americans Long distance transportation system and it is in danger of being crippled by the people who run it in Washington. Amtrak deserves More of a Chance than it has received in the past from a Congress that has lavished Money on an interstate highways system and subsidized aviation at a much higher rate. America continues to need a rebuilt and reinvigorated rail passenger network As other countries Are doing. Only its weakest least used links ought to be phased out Loa angelas times terrorism within the United states became a frightening reality with last years bombing of the world Trade Center in new York. That incident was linked to individuals who had entered the country under questionable visa status. Now As part of an intensified Effort to curb terrorism Fri director Louis a Freeh is calling for closing loopholes in . Immigration policies and practices including the tightening of controls on student visas and spam marriages Between . Citizens and foreigners. The United states has Long maintained a policy of being As open As possible. That has been a Way of refreshing the nation. But abuse of National generosity to carry out ulterior motives especially terrorism is not to be tolerated. Pittsburgh Post Gazette after a nudge from the United states Yasser Arafat has promised to try to end a wave of attacks against israelis in the occupied territories that palestinians Hope to govern. It was an overdue response to violence that could derail the transition to palestinian self Rule throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Constitution Atlanta Paul Hill the unrepentant murderer of an abortion doctor and the doctor s elderly escort holds a dangerously selective religious obsession. The increasing appetite to execute murderers is disturbing and irrational in general but in the Case of Paul Hill it takes on a particularly disturbing twist., execution would Grant Hill s obsession the Power to make a grotesque myth out of his own punishment. This myth making May create a Martyr but it does not serve Justice. Hill should. Spend a lifetime behind bars meditating on the conflict Between his religious convictions and his double murder