Editorials
Pay our U.N. dues
The world needs the United Nations, but congressional intransigence is keeping the United States from paying its share of the organization's upkeep.

The new shape of welfare
The dreaded two-year cutoff point for welfare recipients in Florida is Sept. 30. Early indications are that it has not be as painful as critics of welfare overhaul predicted. Payments will end for 1,982 families who have not moved off welfare rolls since reform began Oct. 1, 1996. That is an unsettling number. But it represents progress, considering those families were part of 220,292 families on the dole when reform began in Florida.

Wilbur G. Landry
Meanwhile, Europe stares in amazement
LE TEMPLE, France -- At the end of the last century, a French president died, presumably with a smile on his face, during a sexual encounter with a prostitute in the Elysee presidential palace. To avoid embarrassment, she left by the back door.

Letters
The president's attackers miss spirit of the law
The politicians in Washington are baffled by the public's continuing support of our president. This is because they have forgotten something we have not: the distinction between the spirit and the letter of the law.