Fort Madison Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - June 15, 1994, Fort Madison, Iowa 4 Daily June 1994 Fort Iowa Consensus elusive both here and abroad 8y Tom Raum WilUr WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Clinton is facing the toughest work of his presidency on two fronts facing North Korea abroad and passing healthcare overhaul at Neither is coming In both much is at While there are vast differen ces between forging coalitions among nations and among law some of the same prin ciples critical to both cases is confidence in Clintons To date he hasnt had much success The struggle over finding common ground on Bosnia is a prime the administration is having a hard time rallying sup port for sanctions against North Korea from two necessary but reluctant parties Japan and Clinton is trying to pres sure North Korea to permit in of its nuclear The presidents proficiency at forming coalitions in Congress also appears to be During his first he painstakingly constructed fragile coalitions to enact a budget and a pact with But he hasnt been so successful on his biggest home grown initia tive health care Health care is developing into Clintons domestic with many rival factions and no clear path to All plans are Bob a major player in the health care declared And Senate Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Patrick told Clinton he didnt have the votes for any Critics suggest the presidents vacillations and flip flops un his abilities both at head quarters and on Capitol Hill where he remains haunted by his a year ago on his Btu tax on the heat content in British thermal units of various After vowing to stand by House Democrats who supported the un popular tax in the House version of the budget Clinton sawed off the limb on which they stood by abandoning it in the Senate Some Democrats they dont want to be again by Clinton and this uncertainty over what hell give away is un his credibility on health Im optimistic that he will build something on health But you really have to have a consensus before a coalition can said Steven a political scientist at Georgetown On foreign Wayne Part of it has to do with his and the fact that he hasnt developed with foreign The comparison to George Bushs among European Arab states and Israel to confront Iraq is in if not entirely There was an actual Land Kuwait was grabbed by a clear Hus And both Western and Mid dle Eastern interests were some comparisons can be made between Iraq and todays standoff with North VIn both there is a situa tion in which the world com munity at large can envision a threat either to nations themsel ves or to world former Mickey a key player on foreign policy during the Reagan and Bush now a lecturer at Harvard said Bush did a lot of private talking with tional leaders By he Clintons policy generally proclaim what he do then try to line up others to sup port And Clintons public wavering on many issues makes other nations uncomfortable cause nobody knows what hell do Satire blurs lines between fiction By Lauran Neergaard Associated WASHINGTON AP Call Christopher Buckley a prophet and he Gods just a bad But he says its very that real life is imitating his wicked new satire about tobacco industry called Thank You for Which is reality and which is fiction A tobacco spokesman says cheddar cheese needs labels warning that it clogs arteries more than health Or cigarette makers tell Congress are no worse than A tobacco spokesman promotes cigarettes by hiring role model movie stars instead of villains to puff away in Or Brown Williamson Tobacco spends hundreds of of to its tors as Sylvester A tobacco spokesman goes on TV to insist theres simply no proof that cigarettes Or seven CEOs testify before Con gress that its not been proven that cigarette smoking causes Buckley penned the examples in 1 a year 2 and 3 are real incidents that made headlines this spring just as Buckleys new book was being I felt by the gorgeousness of American said the 42yearold author and magazine I theres no need for a satire on this when its on the front above the of The New York Happily for hes being proven Although Thank You for Smoking was published only June it already iS scheduled for a second printing and Mel Gibson has optioned the movie Thank You for Smoking is a look at the world of tobacco in dustry spokesman Nick Naylor and his public relations buddies in the alcohol and gun They call themselves the Mer chants of Death or MOD and commiserate over the hardships of rebutting that nasty statistic that cigarettes kill Americans a year or put ting a spin on the latest shooting spree by a postal They defend themselves with what Buckley calls the yuppie Nuremberg defense vas only paying ze Its a line Buckley said he stole from Nick Brennan vice president of the Tobacco a tobac co trade l u colleagues in industry and the National Rifle glimpsing their struggle to defend their products from increasing attack He cites a beer spokesman pilloried at a health conference who shrugs off hatred as part of the I quite liked my yuppie vil Buckley They must love a fight because its all they the reallife tobacco spokeswoman Dawson the challenge is But Daw though she hasnt yet read the cant understand why Buckley is making news or her part in Im not going to get in the role of Dan Quayle and talk about a fictional just a she But this jobs frankly too much grief to do it for the Fort Madison Daily DEMOCRAT An Independent Newspaper The Daily Democrat Is published by The Democrat Company Forf Iowa 526Z7 Box Phone Publisher Ray Assistant Publisher Editor Ranee Composing Mary Accounting Tom Production Circulation Monday Friday Second clan paid at fort pail of The Subscription By carrier in Fort ond communities every wreeks 75 for 12 lor 74 weett 00 For A3 By motoi roule 00 ror wee n 00 tor SI 12 By man in tea county 00 lot 48 for 24 00 lor 12 rate i by Guaranteed Delivers It you fail to receive youi copy of Ihe Daily your IT you do not know your con the Daily between 9 and and we hH 01 nei and If you connoT yow car cnfl 3726421 between and pm and your papei will be il you EVA In the city or FoiT Se rxl lo Daly foil IA form 3579 VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN MM Missed lunches pay off AP It took 14 years and countless missed lunches before a university secretary finally completed what she started four decades ago her college It feels so good to have accomplished Diane Hun said during commencement ceremonies Sunday at the University of where she received her with in Hunsaker started college as a but left school when her husband was drafted in She returned to the classroom in 1980 after the youngest of her five children turned Since shes taken classes during her lunch Her said he often found his wife studying late at wrapped in a blanket on the Hasnt through enough Havent we put Cheryl Davis whoever she through enough She had an and her only fault was she came forward with Thats not a popular thing to do here in Fort where the message is loud and clear or shut The only difference between her letter of June 3 and the Pen rods letter of June 14 was they knowing the mentality of this having been born and raised sugarcoated their with a few phrases arid some some Give it People dont change if As for your phone some people never grow Pat your self on the back for being above it and the next time you have an opinion to consider using so you wont be A final How about taking all of that excess energy youre ramming on and figure out a way to make the downtown area safe for our children to walk through when leaving the theater in the evening Get those pens out and write a few letters to the parents of the delinquent children and teenagers who are allowed to hang out in front of the throwing rocks and swearing at the children who are walking This is a REAL What do I hope to accomplish by writing Im not that my letter will give all of those bored with noth i n f 3iE better U focus on for a few As for my subscription runs out Im starting to think the National Enquirer might be a step Mike Smith Fort Madison VFW support operation of animal shelter so many negative things nowadays Im here with some positive lama member of the Animal Protection League of Southeast We have now taken over the running of the Animal Shelter which is behind Jacks on the west end of Fort We look forward to finding loving homes for many pets in Our new humane Vic is willing to work for the good of the pets in Fort Madison and along with are urging everyone to please have an ID and tags on their pets so if the worst happens we can help your pet get I would like to thank all the business people of Fort Madison who have helped us out with so many donations for our Pet Adoption Day and I ing July open Our Pet Adoption Day is June from 10 2 at the VFW at 1828 Thanks to the we will have many door prizes and We have a great day planned and would like to invite all our busi ness and other Fort Madison friends to come see us and our pet pals up for Everyone who adopts a pet will get a care package with lots of goodies for both the pet and its new I to thank our Fort Madison VFW Dawson Without our Pet Adoption Day wouldnt be have been so nice and are even going to have their post open for refreshments and a bake We have many great things planned for our includ ing the open house in With well have a great Char FraiM Fori Madison Who pays for in the streets These mightly little speed demons are sliding into the curves and drag racing the straights with roaring engines and topping speeds of 70 mph or Sounds like fun But who pays Have you noticed the streets on the race course being As I there is an asphalt laydown machine at Central Park ready to repair the a part of the race Who pays Last a lady sitting behind the barricades and the fencing in a safe area was hit by a gocart and put in the hospital lawsuit still under Which means if by some quirk you are walking Of rs just happens to hit you can plan on at least one year before If just one person is its too Wake up Fort Madison Now lets talk about my I live at the corner of Avenue F and 9th and I own two businesses next door on 9th The busiest time for the is and the same for my Both businesses depend on street parking at the as does Family across the In talk ing with owner of stayed open during the races last al though she reported a loss for that My two businesses had to being on the the My business and home are totally fenced My loss for the weekend of the race was higher than the plus upset Fort Madison talks about wanting in the hut allows to force me to lose Jini Baier and Shot promote but they are not fenced in and do not lose profit because of Now dont get me i think are 1 have been to gocart tracks arid had hours of but when I was done I could leave and Now I have to leave home to get away from Fort Madison Today in history ly The Associated Today is June the 166th day of There are 199 days left in the Todays Highlight in History On June King John signed Magna Carta at Run granting his barons more On this date In Pope Leo X threatened to excommunicate Martin Luther if he did not recant his religious In the Second tal Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army In Arkansas became the 25th In Charles Goodyear received a patent for his process to strengthen Goodyear did not benefit from the and died in poverty in In the United States and Britain signed a treaty settling the boundary between Canada and the in the Pacific In James the eleventh president of the United died in In Secretary of War Edwin Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial which became Ar lington National In more than a thousand people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New Yorks Bast In 50 years American forces began their suc invasion of Saipan in the Central Pacific in World War Super fortresses made their first raids on attacking a plant on In the Billy Wilder movie The starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley opened in New In California Ronald Reagan signed a liberalizing his states abortion In King Hussein of Jor dan married 26yearold American Lisa who be came Queen Ten years ago Democratic Walter Mon dale said he would interview San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Lloyd of Texas as running Five years ago Three Chinese workers in Shanghai to death for helping to set fire to a train during recent pro democracy One year ago Former John who had been wounded in the gunfire that killed President died at age President Clinton told a news conference he was confident his Supreme Court Ruth Bader would win Senate Todays Birthdays Former Congressman D is New York Mario Cuomo is Singer Waylon Jen is Jim Belushi is
