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Sun editorial
Bill of Rights
200 years old
War now very personal
r 11 he 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, a historic
I 'landmark in the birth of the United States, is being
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_ observed this year.
The 1991 state convention of the Freedom of Informa-
tion Foundation of Texas will focus on that theme when it
meets in Austin Sept. 13-14.
Warren, Burger, retired chief justice of the U.S. Su-
preme Court, has been invited to speak at the convention.
In September 1789, Congress submitted 12 amend-'
*ments as a Bill of Rights. Ten were ratified. Those 10,
amendments became the Bill of Rights as we know them
today.
Among other things, freedom of the press was assured
by the Constitution, and that right is almost constantly
under challenge by individuals and/or groups seeking to
suppress information for one reason or another.
Reporters covering court trials across the nation are of-*
ten threatened with contempt citations or with being jailed
if they violate court orders, especially when some of them
refuse to identify sources of information. ,
Operation Dcscrl Storm has suddenly be-
come a very personal war for me and my
family. Our son, James Mortis, the youngest
of our five children, is now serving with the
Army in Saudi Arabia.
The experience of his going there has
been ah emotional rollercoaster ride for all
of us for (lie past several months. We have ’
been up one minute, down the'-.next, joyful
one minute, sad the next.
It started pack in August when Iraq in-
vaded Kuwait. Morris had been in the Arthy
only a month. Jhe possibility of his going
overseas after lie finished basic training was
Buck
Yoling
slight, since he needed to go through some
son of specialized training, but it still
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existed.
Then, as the U.S. and its allies started the
massive build-up of troops and equipment in
the Persian Gulf area, the possibility of his
going there turned into a probability. He had
entered missile maintenance training in
Huntsville, Alabama to learn how to repair
the multiple launcher vehicle. We learned
rather quickly this was a skill much de-
manded in Saudi Arabia and that almost all
the other soldiers who had gone through that
training were already over there. They had
shipped out after graduation to other posts,
only to be immediately sent to units in the
desert.
And, of course, the actual fighting had not
yet begun. Thp U.S. was there to keep Iraq
'from spreading its aggression into other
parts of the Persian Gulf area.
Morris did exceptionally well in his train-
ing, graduating among the top man in his
class and being named a distinquished gra-
duate. He received orders to go to Fort Sill,
Okla. to an ordnance unit stationed there.
The* day he graduated was the day the
U.N. deadline passed for Iraq to withdraw
from Kuwait. He called us that night to tell
us that his orders to Sill had been put on
hold and that he was restricted to the post.
The next day, the U.S. and its allies attacked
Iraq and Desert Shield became Desert Storm.
Two days later, Morris called and told us
that he had been alerted for shipment to
Saudi Arabia via Fort Bcnning, Ga. He said
perhaps Morris could become an instructor
or such if he did very well in his training.
stated and he was back home for a week’s
leave before reporting to his new post. Less
than* week there, he was again averted for
shipment to Saudi Arabia, again going
through Fort Bcnning for his final process-
ing and issuing of required equipment.
After five days at Benning, he boarded a
plane for an 18-hour flight to Saudi Arabia,
having to wait an extra day beyond the sche-
duled departure. After all the uncertainty and
the well-known Army “hurry up and wait”
routine, the possibility became fact. He is
there somewhere in the desert with all those
other thousands of American troops. .
We know we are not alone in our concern
for our son over in that combat area, it just
seems like it.
We have actually been fortunate in that
we had the opportunity to see him several
times over those trying months. My wife and
1 took Morris’ wife and children to Hunts-
ville to see him in October, Morris came
home for Thanksgiving, and twice in Janu-
ary. We also saw him at Fort Sill just before
he left-for Fort Benning. And, of course, We
have been running the telephone bill up to
new highs.
When we said goodbye to him at Fort Sill,
there were several thousand things 1 wanted
to tell him, but, naturally, couldn’t. I could
only tell jiim I loved him and for him to be
I
Buck Young is a retired Air Force major.
Then, his. orders to Fort Sill were rein-
Bridging the name gap
From Sun files
’81: Bianchi leads
Crosby Chamber
Front The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was:
SO YEARS AGO
Youqg people from Highlands Methodist and Baptist churches
attend a youth rally in Austin to join in a protest against proposed
legislation that would permit the sale of liquor by the drink and the
return of legalized betting on horse races. The young people are
accompanied by the Rev. F.L. McGown and the Rev. O.F. Keefer.
40 YEARS AGO
Baytown's Red Cross drive quota is $26,500, says James E. Sher-
wood, chairman.
A membership drive is under way for the Baytown Music Civic
Music Association. Lucille Waddell is membership chairman.
Pvt. Jesse R. Wicd attends an electronics school at Keesler Field
in Mississippi.
Justine Podraza of Baytown and Ann Morris of Port Ncchcs win a
badminton tournament at Sam Houston State Teachers College.
30 YEARS AGO
Sgt. L.H. Ricketsoh, juvenile officer in the Baytown Police De-
partment, attends a law enforcement school in Dallas.
• Army Sgt. Russell W. Brown is stationed in Germany.»in the
Army.
10 YEARS AGO
Richard Bianchi, president of the Crosby Chamber of Commerce.
sets goals for 1981.
In March, Exxon Chemical Americas will begin construction on a
four-story office building on a site northeast of Bayway Drive and
south of the chemical plant units. It will be next to the Exxon Chem-
icals Technology Center now under construction. While the two
buildings will have separate entrances off Bayway Drive, they will
be connected by a road.
Tom Grail and Beulah Mowrey are pictured rehearsing a scene
from Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” for the Baytown Little
Theater.
Dr Ana Guzman leads a Parent and Family Life Education work-
shop on bilingual education..
Houston City Council members got
thrown for a loop the other day over the
name of the 610 bridge.
They had voted unanimously to ask the
state Legislature to rename the bridge in
memory of the late Houston Councilman
Judson W. Robinson Jr. before .learning it-
already had a name.
Lo and behold, it’s the Sidney Sherman
Bridge.
The Houston City Council plans to with-
draw the resolution and find another struc-
ture to name after Robinson. This recom-
mendation comes from his widow, Mar-
garetti!' Robinson, who is completing his
term on the council.
“She felt like that was the best thing to
do,” said Lori Arnett, a press secretary in
Mayor Kathy Whitmire’s office!
Lori (who, by the way, is'a/former Sun
news intern) told me the whole thing was an
“honest mistake.” -
The city council is looking for an appro-
priate way to honor the memory of Robin-
son, who was the city’s first black council
member in this century and who worked
hard at “building bridges” between ethnic
groups.
State Sen. Gene Green came up with the
idea of naming the ship channel bridge after
Robinson. He was unaware, of course, that a
previous council had named the bridge after
Wanda
Orton
Sherman in 1974.
In my opinion, the fault lies in the lack of
a proper bridge sign. Rather than , a small
marker saying it’s the Sherman bridge, let’s
have a huge overhead sign emblazoned with
the hame.
To be sure, maps show the bridge name of
Sherman, but most of us in this area don’t
need to look at a map to find the Loop 610
bridge. We know where it is — just didn’t
know what it was called.
Residents in the Baytown-La Porte area
can take particular pride in the name of
Sherman, because he’s “one of our boys.”
The Battle of San Jacinto hero who is cre-
dited with creating the “Remember the
Alamo!” yell, lived for many years on Spill-
man Island, present-day site of the Baytown-
La Porte Tunnel.
His first home in this area was a small
cabin at Morgan’s Point, about Wjherc Bar-
bours Cut,.is located. Although it was a
cramped, one-room dwelling, Republic of
Texas President David G. Burnet called it
“the best home on the bay.”
People used to name their homes back
then, and Sherman called that modest little
place Mount Vernon. V
His name for the bigger, better house he
built at Spillman Island was Crescent Place.
Sherman served as Harris County’s mem-
ber of the Seventh Congress of the Republic
of Texas in 1842 and the following year won
election as major general of the militia.
During the Civil War he served as com-
mandant at Galveston until illness forced
him to retire. He returned to this area to his
home on Spillman Island.
His son, Lt. Sidney Sherman Jr„ was
killed in the battle of Galveston.
Sherman died in 1873 at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J.M.O. Menard, in Galveston.
He and his great friend, President Burnet, are
buried next to each other in a cemetery in
Galveston.
Named in his honor are the-city of Sher-
man and Sherman County.
And — a bridge.
Wanda Orton is managing editor of The
Baytown Sun.
Bush wants Saddam ousted
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WASHINGTON — For the record, the
overthrow of Saddam Hussein is not an ex-
plicit American objective in the Persian Gulf
War — although President Bush clearly
wants the Iraqi dictator deposed, dead or in
the dock as a war criminal.
The stated goal and the unstated aim don’t
square because the U.S.-led coalition against
Iraq is operating under United Nations Sec-
urity Council resolutions that authorized war
to force Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, not
to topple Saddam’s regime in Baghdad.
While the administration wants to be rid
of-fiim, that cannot be made explicit without
escalating U.S. objectives past those set by
U.N. resolutions. Nor can coalition partners
like Saudi Arabia put him on the stated
target list, evert though they would find the
post-war Arab world a safer place without
him.
!For Bush, punishing the Iraqi ruler seems
to be an intense, almost personal matter. He
likened Saddam to Adolf Hitler shortly after
the invasion of Kuwait last Aug. 2, de-
nounced him from campaign platforms all
fall and reminded his audiences that war
crimes trials brought World War II criminals
to justice. -———.—______
Walter
Mears
After launching action against Iraq on Jan.
17, Bush said Saddam and his high com-
mand would be held personally accountable
for war crimes against U.S. and allied pris-
oners. During the early days of the war, the
Iraqis showed captured airmen on television
and said they would be held at installations
likely to be targeted for air strikes.
Echoing Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle
added that there would be no Vietnam-style
outcome in which the Iraqis could escape
trial and punishment for violating the
Geneva accords on prisoners of war.
Comments like those would seem to fore-
close Saddam’s'survival in power after los-
ing or even quitting the war. But the admi-
nistration has avoided saying so.
In addition, Bush, his top aides, and U.S.
military commanders all have s,aid Saddam
is not a specific target in the air war because
the United States is not targeting individuals.
' Bush also has said he wouldn’t mourn Sad-
dam, and no ope else should.
But each statement on Saddam’s future —
or lack of one — is coupled with an assur-
ance that there has been no change in the
U.S. goal in the war to expel Iraq from Ku-
wait and restore the government there.
That was repeated after Bush’s call to the
Iraqis to overthrow Saddam themselves.
“There’s another way for the bloodshed
to stop,” Bush said Friday, “and that is for
the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take
matters into their own hands and force Sad-
dam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside, and
then comply with the United Nations resolu-
tions and rejoin the family of peace loving
nations.”
Walter R. Mears, vice president and col-
’ umnist for The Associated Press;- has re-
ported on Washington and national politics
for more than 25 years.
Today in history
1962: U.S. astronaut orbits the earth
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first Ameri-
can to orbit Earth after blasting off abbard the Friendship VII Mer-
cury capsule.
In 1790, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.
In 1792, President Washington signed an act creating the U.S.
Post Office. *\-
Jn 1809, the vJ.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal
government is gfeater than that of any individual state.
In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
In 1895, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass died in
Washington. ' . \ ?
, In 1933, the House of Representatives completed congressional'
action on in amendment to repeal-Prohibition.
In 1938/Anthony Eden aligned as British foreign secretary in a
dispute with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
In 1965, the Ranger VIII spacecraft crashed on the moon after
sending back thousands of. pictures of the lunar surface.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Sidney Poitier is 67. Fashion designer
Gloria Vanderbilt is 67. Movie director Robert Altman is 66. Jazz
and soul singer Nancy Wilson is 54. Singer-songwriter Buffy Saintc-
Marie is 50. Former hockey star Phil Esposito is 49. Actress Sandy
Duncan is 45. Rock guitarist J. Geils is 45. Actor Peter Strauss is 44.
Actress Jennifer O’Neill is 42. Actor Edward Albert is 40. News-
paper heiress Patricia Hearst Shaw is 37.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 96, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1991, newspaper, February 20, 1991; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051382/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.