European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 13 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside brass Doest speak for All the Boston Globe from Abu Gharib to Walter the department of defense has been mired recently in a succession of in both the Iraq and Afghanistan the Mili Tarys civilian and uniformed leaders have also been asked by Congress to explain their decisions about troop economic Friendly fire Ca and training of iraqi and afghan in fulfilling their responsibility to oversee the members of Congress need Access to the views of anyone in uni not just High level but new Bush administration guidelines would limit Congress Freedom to get Testi Mony from a wide Range of servicemen Bers and civilian Pentagon the Dod is reserving the right to bar enlisted career bureaucrats and any officers below the rank of colonel from testifying to oversight committees or having their statements if the department itself had paid More at Tention to the voices of it might not have allowed the appalling conditions in the outpatient quarters of Walter Reed for just one to become such a Symbol of bureaucratic indifference and Congress should insist on hear ing the testimony from civilian or in the department of pardons fair for rights activists the commercial As some Southern states waged a vicious second civil War in the 1950s and 1960s to Block thousands of Afri can americans and White people were arrested while standing up for the protesters were arrested on charges of disorderly criminal in citing loitering and As they peacefully staged siting and pro tested to bring an end to the souths oppressive Jim Crow including barriers to Africa americans being Able to for exercising their rights As american they unjustly ended up with Crimi Nal some Southern including Tennessee and have moved to offer pardons to those convicted of acts of civil disobedience during the civil rights some civil rights warriors have expressed disdain for the calling their arrests a badge of in the pardons should have been granted years but its never too late to right an Indus the House and Senate this month passed the Rosa Parks named after the Mother of the civil rights that would Grant pardons to individuals who sought Phil Bredesen needs to get up to Speed on the legislation and quickly sign it into More child health Aid can help Minneapolis Star Tribune Betty Mccollums global child survival act Doest envision anything especially novel it simply seeks a return to the principled practice of the in the last three Aid helped Cut child mortality rates in the developing world by yet even children in the poorest of nations still face a nearly 20 percent Chance of dying before and de prickly City by Scott Stantis spite the persistent child health Aid has dropped 20 percent since Mccollums Bill comes just in time to pre vent the dive from becoming a the global child survival act does that it Calls for a jump in child health spending of million next year and prescribes further annual increases through yet what matters most is not How Many dollars Mccollum seek to spend on this quest but How Many lives those Dol Lars might if the does its Public health experts 6 million child deaths in the developing world can be prevented each that counts As quite As one source for food safety los Angeles times this thousands of dogs and cats got sick from eating pet food made with tainted wheat products from Pic Tures of sad puppies hooked to ivs filled in Short Richard and Rosa called for a consolidated fed eral Agency to oversee food safety in the United at first the Chain of events looked a lot like the headline driven Rush to action that spawned the department of Homeland gloaming dozens of entities under one roof and Ham stringing a lot of them in the process think consolidating departments is not always the Best Way to ensure Good but when it comes to ensuring food safety currently handled by an overlapping bureaucratic Nightmare in need of Funda mental according to the government accountability office it May make sense to the regulations that govern food safety Are woefully out of written before the imported much of its food and before the Advent of processed tastes made of mysterious stuff like wheat the Safe food act would create a single Agency unlike the could concen trate solely on food standardizing inspection and recall standards across All food types and More aggressively screening imports and so its a Wel come acknowledgement that food safety needs to adapt to the 21st 07 Chrysler is a new Model the Indianapolis Star Daimler Sale of Chrysler to a private in vestment company could be the first step in a massive overhaul of american Automo bile the Sale creates an alternative business Model to the approach used since Ford motor went Public on 1956 almost 40 years after general motors Stock first traded on the new York Stock sex Daimler reasons for shedding Chrysler at a bargain basement Price Best Frame the challenges facing the automakers new for cerberus to experts the organization needs to Cut operating expenses by As much As 30 per improve Quality control and compete More aggressively in global especially As a private Chrysler May be Able to Deal with operating costs More of health care for workers sits atop that As it does for americas other Auto As when it was bailed out by Congress in Chrysler has an Opportunity to re invent and to possibly create operations More competitive with foreign Auto astute Consumers will watch carefully to see if Chrysler new approach can pro Duce higher Quality vehicles for lower pric you can bet that Ford and pm will be speaking of Imus Chicago Tribune How strange it is to describe someone in the context of the controversial things they have As though All of their lives were spent babbling nonsense or offensive Gib Berish or inflammatory it May Well be the one characteristic that links the disgraced radio icon Don Imus to the late Media preacher who was behind the moral the Jerry for each the use of words accepted in one place caused trouble in Falwell followers found in him a great preacher and sure just As Imus audience believed him provocative and up to a headed hos would be the Point at which Imus became but outside of the world of the convert the choir to which Falwell he became notorious for comments that would be applauded by the flock but widely even by those outside of the same phenomenon happens when people scrutinize the words of rap music or Analyse the kinds of songs that were played in new Orleans brothels at the turn of the last a lesson presents itself in the Wake of his death in the world of Good and bad can be As much in the ear of the listener As in the heart of the immigration Bill needs tweaks the immigration Bill being debated in the Senate is an if Effort to Craft a Compromise that will satisfy re publicans fearful of unprotected Borders and democrats concerned about a track to citizenship for illegal our Hope is that the Senate followed by conference with the House of represent will forge a less equivocal there is plenty Here to cause some republicans still see the citizenship path As some including House speaker Nancy say the Merit based system needs to be in Many immigration experts fret that the scale and timing of some of the proposals such As that the department of human services distribute to allem within 18 an improved version of a program to Check social Secu Rity numbers against government databases Are too unreasonable to be Compromise will be the underpinning of any immigration Bill that gets we that certain aspects of the current plan most notably the Tempo Rary worker program and an unmodified Merit system Are altered during the de after waiting years for an overhaul of the immigration it would be Worth while to Craft a Bill that is effective and status quo Only Good for big Oil the Buffalo news there Are two problems with the Price of one is that it takes More and More Money from Peoples both when they buy Gas and when they buy any thing that was transported from there to the other problem is despite the Public outcry and the echoed outrage in the Halls of people keep right on buying the Petroleum Industry is so dominated by so few firms that the question of whether the Market has been manipulated is of course it As much by the governments unwillingness to pass and enforce antitrust Laws As by any treachery among the Petro Charles Schumers Call for an investigation into suspected Price fixing by the Oil Industry is a Good maybe Schumer can make a Deal with big either boost the use of the nations refining capacity from the current 88 per and build More to lower or just raise those prices say a and keep them keep them there Long enough for people to make the calculation that they want More efficient wide reaching mass transit systems and houses that Are in the same zip code As their because neither the Public nor the Auto Industry seems to want to head in that ultimately necessary direction on its the Oil Industry remains in the role of the very Clever drug enough to keep us never enough to kill at not right