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I just want to say how much we
enjoyed attending the 1997 Robert E.
Lee high School football games. -
Ganders, you were great.
You showed sportsmanship and great
team spirit and you played hard to the
very last second of the last game.
Yes, you lost to Hastings but you still
took our school’s team a long way and
that is the reason to celebrate.
We will be there for you next year.
To Coach Olin and his staff: You did a
great job too, but you had a good team to
build on.
and that he was fired not because his
advice was not expeditious but because he
became a political liability. '-> ■
Stephanopoulos now uiges Clinton to
have Saddam assassinated. “What’s unlaw-
ful and unpopular with the allies is not
necessarily immoral. So now that I’m not
in the White House, I could say what I .
couldn’t say then: We should seriously
explore the assassination option.”
Backing his espousal of this “option” is
a list of reasons why assassination makes
sense in this case. Saddam is a bully, and
killing him will save lives inside and Out-
side of Iraq.' Stephanopoulos also argues
that just war theory allows this type of
assassination and Clinton would be a
“huge winner” with the public if he suc-
Passage of half-cert tax
is for city’s residents
The half-cent solution is coming up for
public vote. This half cent as a applicable
tax on taxable goods purchased here will
generate several million dollars per year.
No bonds issued, no big city billion dol-
lar budget, no Metro involvement, no to come,
political plundering and no Washington
or Austin hobnobbing. Every half cent —
generated will stay here in Baytown.
In the long term this half cent will pro-
vide better facilities at the police station.
With a new courthouse right across the
street, its effectiveness will immediately
be realized as a new jail there will elimi-
nate shuffling and the transportation of
offenders. Everyone willbenefit from a
training center for new officers. A much
needed communications center is
planned . This will guarantee that La .. ...
Porte and Pasadena can be informed that
the bad guy is on the new bridge and
coming their way.
The half cent solution, its vote and
possible passage will be by the people
and for the people. Its ramifications will
extend into the coming years. So think
long term. Think accomplishment and
achievement. Regard Baytown not as a
Thought for today
“Nothing has more lives than an error you refuse to correct.”
— O.A. Battista, Canadian-born author-scientist
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ing and is being used by him not as a
method for achieving moral clarity but
rather to justify his desire to give the public
what he thinks they want
Stephanopoulos’understanding of just
war theory would be humorous if it was
not such a bad omen. Though used regu-
larly in the context of the war with Iraq,
just war theory has been applied in schizo-
phrenic fashion since the first World War.
Though the theory arose in religious con-
texts, history has shown that Christianized
nations most often use the theory to justify
the belligerent ambitions of nationalist
leaders. While this use does not invalidate
the theory, it does present serious ques-
tions as to the present meaning of it being
used as a justification for aggression by
government officials.
. . Stephanopoulos should just say what he
one knows that a strong person (or nation) means. We don’t appreciate Saddam’s
defiant stance. We are the most powerful
empire in the history of the planet, and
Saddam refuses to acknowledge this fact.
And “misplaced moral squeamishness” or
“a misreading of the law” should not stop
us from wiping the smile off his face with
a bullet.
In the most recent issue of Newsweek *
magazine former senior advisor to the g
president George Stephanopoulos dis- |
played an example of the morally vacuous g
reasoning that motivates modem politi-
cians.
Stephanopoulos was relieved of his
advisory role to the president*because of “
his appearance as outspoken and radical,
but he continues to advise the president
and the public in his column in Newsweek.
held responsible for his mistakes on the sidelines?
If UT were a private corporation, you can bet that the board of directors
would want some answers. But like so many other public entities, UT throws
• public money around as if it came out of a Monopoly set rather than your
■pocket.
It won’t change until taxpayers start demanding more fiscal responsibility of
our elected officials. ' " . ,
Remember that our quarterback is still
a junior at Lee, most of the other quarter-
backs were seniors, and that extra year of
experience paid off for those teams.
To the families of all the players: You
have a lot to be proud of.
To the players returning for next year:
Stay healthy and stay clean.
To our next team in 1998: We will be
at every game, God willing.
To the seniors: Good luck and may you
all have a great future ahead of you.
— Anna M. Lopez,
—PaulE. Weaver Baytown
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The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90,
Baytown, Tx. 77522; Or, fax
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Today in history
Today is Friday, Dec. 5, the 339th day of 1997. There are 26 days left in the year?
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 5,1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th
state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amend-
ment. ’
On this date:
In 1776, the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was orga-
nized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
In 1791, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria, at age
35.
In 1792, George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-
elected vice president.
In 1901, movie producer Walt Disney was bom in Chicago.
In 1991, Richard Speck, who murdered eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966,
died a day short of his 50th birthday.
Today’s Birthdays: Senate President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., is
95. Singer Little Richard is 65. Author Joan Didion is 63. Author Calvin Trillin is
62. Musician J. J. Cale is 59. Actor Jeroen Krabbe is 53. Pop singer Jim Messm js„-„
50. Actress Morgan Brittany is 46. Actress Carrie Hamilton is 34. Country singer
Ty England is 34. Rock singer-musician John Rzeznick (The Goo Goo Dolls) is 32.
—The Associated Press
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The Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
Gary Dobbs David Eldridge
Editor and Publisher Managing Editor
❖ Friday, December 5,1997
So the University of Texas is playing musical chairs with football
coaches again — if UT wants to throw away a bushel of money by fir-
ing a guy with a guaranteed contract, that’s up to the Orangebloods,
right? « ■ ’
Well, you may have graduated from Texas A&M, or you may not have gone
to college at all, but when the University of Texas wastes money, you ought to
know that the money being wasted is green, not orange. And that green comes
out of your pocket, at least in part.
The University of Texas, after all, is a state school. It is operated for and
funded by all of the people of Texas — even if they attended Southern
Methodist University or Lee College.
The money the University of Texas will spend to buy off the final three
years of fired held coach John Mackovic’s contract, an estimated $1.8 million,
is public money.
The money the university is waving at incoming coach Mack Brown,
$600,000 a year and up, is public money.
We understand that big-time college athletics is just that — big time. And if
you want to compete at the highest levels, you have to be willing to put some
serious dollars on the table.
But if Mackovic deserved to be fired, how about the athletic director and the
regents who approved or participated in his hiring six years ago? How about
the athletic director who, after Mackovic posted a 10-2-1 season in 1995,
handed’the embattled coach a raise and a five-year extension on his contract?
An extension, by the way, that the school (and taxpayers) will now have to eat.
Shouldn’t tiie people who made those poor decisions be held responsible for
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The only reason weighing against assas-
sination in Stephanopoulos’ mind is that .
the CIA says that we might not be able to
do it, and botching the assassination would
be a public relations nightmare.
This is a shining example of the logic
that has the rest of us wary of the Ameri-
can government. It is possible to trust a
powerful ally who acts following a code of
conduct that precludes bullying, but every-
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who can “relax the moral norm” to achieve
self-serving ends is not a friend to be relied
upon.
Prudent governments subject themselves
and their goals to a set of reasonable moral
principles. The only moral principle to
which Stephanopoulos appeals is just war
theory, which he completely misreads. Just
war specifically forbids the type of unilat- Brain Brock is a Baytown resident and a
eral action that Stephanopoulos is propos- regular Sun contributor.
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