European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 21 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 lady Bird a growing legacy the Washington Post Lyndon Johnson once said of his wife Given the people would Proba Bly rather vote for her than for of was not one to offer voters such but he was probably right about lady Bird Johnsons popular Appeal and Abil she was an extraordinary first Johnson had been away from Washington for nearly 40 years by the time she died wednesday at there Are by now Many who know her Only vaguely As a figure from the smiling wife in the presi dents with that funny name a child Hood endearment bestowed on Claudia Alta Taylor by a look around a and youll see much her most visible legacy is the millions of Flowers she caused to be planted All Over this was her beautification a cause that she continued to pursue in places All Over the country Long after she left the White the Effort went beyond planting flow ers in the cities to improving the National Parks and alleviating some of the uglier manifestations of Commerce and Industry strip overhead Power one of her greatest one most bitterly fought by business interests was Feder Al legislation restricting billboards on Feder Al Lyndon Johnson stood behind her on that Bill and helped push it through to Pas it was a Well deserved tribute to a woman who had been indispensable to him in his Rise to Power and in much of what he achieved she devoted herself entirely to this driven Man and undoubtedly influenced him for the better in Many she stood squarely with Lyndon Johnson on the great Domestic issues of the none of which were of than civil this genteel Southern woman never wavered in her advocacy of the civil rights legislation that a Century after created the foundation for equal treatment of every american under the lady Bird brought to the White House dignity and warmth and said presi Dent George Bush at a White House ceremony in and she was never on never acting out some always the same genuine lady no matter what the set it was because of these qualities that her presence at the Center of the nations great Battles Over Public accommodations and other vital issues of the Day was so she was a first lady who deserves to be and of course she is and will be every when springtime comes keep signers stories alive tie Bergen in december a few months after the Hopewell Farmer John Hart signed the declaration of hessians sacked his farm and the 63yearold went into hid ing in the cold Hunter Don county he died less than three years too Early to know How the War or the american Experiment would turn out we who do should recognize his Harts grave and those of four other sign ers George Rich Ard Stockton and John Witherspoon lie within the states offering opportunities for reflection on our National heritage and places May not be quite As exciting As the pyrotechnics of the fourth of but they should at least be Well marked and prickly City and in it woh7 by Scott Stantis vol Vijh i ult offset some of these Sites Lack appropriate markers or Bear plaques that have themselves become with faded let ters and limited a Bill that would dedicate to the task of main Taining the Graves of the signers has failed to make it out of the state legislature for three in our this cause ranks above Many others that somehow got a piece of the state budget that the governor signed last teach Bible in historical terms Chicago Tribune knowledge of the Bible is an important component of cultural yet Many particularly Young peo have Little or no working knowledge about the so it makes great sense to teach the Bible in schools As history and liter that goes As Well for Public As Long As its teaching Doest push a religious that very distinction is getting a test these Days in eight parents have sued seeking to Stop the Ector county school Board from teaching a Bible curriculum developed by a North Caroli abased group called the National Council on Bible curriculum in Public the lawsuit is Likely to have an Impact outside the the National Council says its curriculum has been adopted by 395 school districts around the Mark a professor of biblical stud ies at Southern methodist University in dal did a study of the curriculum in he found that the National Council promotes a fundamentalist protestant interpretation of the Bible that often ignores the differing beliefs and practices of East Ern orthodox christians and mainline prot the National Council is not the Only option school districts a competing curriculum offered by the Bible literacy a nonprofit has been accepted and praised by a wide Range of critics and education the folks at the National Council Are right on one count the Bible should be taught in Public but they  be the ones to do Korea Progress is possible los Angeles times the architects of North Korea putative nuclear disarmament Are holding their theres a lot Riding on the events of the next few weeks including the Success or failure of a new diplomatic approach by Washington to the baffling regime of North korean dictator Kim Jong under the terms of a disarmament Accord reached in february by the United North Korea and four other nations South Japan and Pyong Yang is supposed to shut Down its Yon Byon nuclear Plant in Exchange for economic and political after years of broken promises and Over heated rhetoric from nobody in Washington is naive enough to take him at his yet kims adherence to some of the preliminary procedural niceties his re Gime agreed on verification terms with after kicking them out of the country in to have Gener ated unusual giddiness at the state depart closing Yon Byon would Only be a first but it beats standing still or moving some 07 issues same As 67 the los Angeles Watts is the name most quickly associated with the racial turbulence of the the 1967 riot in Detroit claimed the most 43 during a time when one social conflagration after an other rolled through Urban including a succession of new Jersey yet was any other place marked As Indeli Bly As Newark was by six lethal Days in july in Newark with 26 scores injured and million in property damage and blocks of devastation in the heart of the cites 24 compact Square Miles the violence was the losses were the damage concentrated and Ines the scars slow to this month Newark will observe the 40th anniversary of what is alternately called civil disturbance list that illustrates the different Points of View that existed then and even what people fear about Newark both those who live in Newark and those who do has less to do with what happened 40 years ago than with the drug related crime and gun violence that happen today on its the list of other prob lems that must be solved health All too similar to the list that existed in when will Newark find solutions Boeing 787 provides a lift Petersburg times american manufacturing got a needed pick Eup with the debut of the Boeing 787 in its Public introduction last sunday As the Antithesis of current Passen Ger jets one is comfortable and Buelef Focient the dream liner was an immediate hit Boeing already has orders for More than 600 of the new due to Fly later this making it the most successful Roll out in commercial aviation the dream liner shows the Way for domes tic manufacturing in a global a diagram of the air planes major parts looks like a Butcher shop Chart of the cuts of the 787s two piece Forward fuselage is w i made in Kansas and its Center fuse Lage in Italy and its aft fuselage in South its engines Are from while the Wing parts come from South Japan and final Assembly will occur at the Boeing Plant near that Means Many of the manufacturing jobs Are outside the United but that also makes the 787 affordable to build and More appealing to foreign this comeback against beings european rival Airbus exemplifies americas top competitive advantage concert itself cant go Green Kokomo Tribune if you were among the estimated 2 billion worldwide who tuned in to the global music festival live then you Likely heard the phrase Carbon its a Way of reducing greenhouse or Carbon former vice president and global warm ing town crier Al Gore told the associated press that live Earth would be the Green est event of its electricity at the concert venues came from renewable recycling bins were hybrid and fuel efficient vehicles were used to transport music acts when the greenest event of its kind one Hundred fifty acts playing in a 24hour event from Australia to England just How Many barrels of Oil were used to spread the word of global warming Western nations and their citizens must be More conscious of fuel and Power but we dont need conservation dissertations from Rock who will have to Plant forests each to offset their High consumption life their message gets lost in deny entry to suspect food Akron Ohio Beacon journal the expanding list of problem goods in re cent months indicates an urgent need to strengthen the food and drug administrations inspection just Asim the scares raised by chinese food imports Point to a Basic need to cultivate multiple Supply thus reducing undue dependence on any one the escalating safety issues Promise to undermine consumer Confidence in imported an expanding sector of the in the past few american Consumers have heard enough about melamine tainted animal contaminated seafood and cancer causing chemicals on fruits and vegetables from China to know tougher measures must be taken to ensure the ingredients in their food Are Safe for con for the Fra to meet that expect it must have More inspectors immedi it also needs the similar to that of the department of to deny foreign exporters Access to the Market until they prove they meet safety