Editorial Roundup - Wed Jun 9, 2:23 PM ET

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Editorial Roundup

Wed Jun 9, 2:23 PM ET

By The Associated Press

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=695&ncid=742&e=5&u=/ap/20040609/ap_on_ed/editorial_rdp
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

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June 8

The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., on Rumsfeld and the military:

Say this about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — he doesn't lack for confidence.

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Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram, on the need for stem cell research:

Ronald Reagan's final accomplishment in life was to raise awareness and understanding of Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites).

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June 9

Los Angeles Times, on twisting American values:

"Everything changed after 9/11" became, in 2001, the slogan that justified new approaches to national security, including curtailment of civil liberties.


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June 7

Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Moscow, on Ronald Reagan:

Reagan was a unique record-maker in U.S. history: When he took the oath of office in 1981 as the 40th president of the United States, he was 69 years old. There had never been an older president in the United States.
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June 5

The Daily Telegraph, London, on George Tenet's resignation:

... It would be a mistake for U.S. President George Bush to assume George Tenet's resignation as director of the Central Intelligence Agency will in itself correct past intelligence lapses, or disperse the political acrimony which is currently undermining confidence in the Bush administration's ability to defeat the global terrorist threat.
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June 8

The Egyptian Gazette, Cairo, on the Greater Mideast Initiative:

Washington's latest bid to sell its so-called Greater Middle East Initiative to an unwilling region will not fare well.
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June 9

The Jakarta (Indonesia) Post, on security in the Straits of Malacca:

... According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), ships transport about 30 percent of the world's trade goods and 80 percent of Japan's oil through the Straits of Malacca, a ... waterway between Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.