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ASHLEY PAIGE
Katy announce the birth of
a daughter, Ashley Paige
on December 3, 2002 in
Houston. She weighed
81bs. 4oz. Grandparents
are Gary & Cheryl
Novosad, Baytown wd
Ron & Margie Boatmm,
Katy. Great-grandparents
are Ed & Dorothy Leonard,
Charlie & Betty Franta,
Baytown, and John &
Lorene Glaser of Temple.
Sister is Taylor Lea.
alliance
bility and offering a prescription drug benefit for the first time.
Bush runs into resistance
on his Medicare proposal
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U.S.fells to convince
allies on war with Iraq
plan would deny the elderly the
together.”
Republicans
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Powell says U.S.
would try to help
Saddam into exile
Christian
leaders plan
to create the
broadest-ever
2003
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Valentine’s Dance
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Administration officials have
said in recent days that the plan
Powell called Saddam a liar in an
interview with Britain’s ITN tele-
By RICHARD N. OSTUNG
The Associated Press
By SCOTT UNDLAW
The Associated Press
By BARRY SCHWDD
The Associated Press
For more information please call
(281) 420-6597 or (281) 420-6598
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Happy 49th Birthday
CINDY BURNS
So many memories I can recall
The way you bring joy to us
all. You can always bring a
smile to my face. Your space
in my heart none can replace.
The things we share. The way
you always care. These are the
things most precious to me,
and in my heart they’ll always
be. Your turning forty-nine
today, and may 1 say, You look
more and more beautiful
everyday. We love you, Rocky,
Heath, Cherie, Laurie, Jody,
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Dads bring your Daughters to the
2003 Daddy & Me Valentine’s Dance
) to be held at the
City of Baytown Community Center
2407 Market Street • Baytown
Friday, February 7, 2003
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Tickets $5.00 in advance • $7.00 at the door.
Commemorative photographs available for purchase.
$3.00 in advance and $4.00 at the door.
“understood the crisis” and dis-
closed he had hidden weapons.
“He’s got a short period of said, "It’s still a wonderment to
time left to do that,” Powell said, us why more people don’t recog-
With several world leaders nize” that Saddam has chemici
hurrying to Washington for last- and biological weapons and has
minute consultations, and a sec- been trying to develop nuclear
ond round of talks set for next weapons.
Polls: More impressed
with Iraq comments
than the economy
Polls taken after President
Bush’s State of the Union
suggest his message on the
need for military action
against Iraq resonated more
strongly with the Republican-
leaning speech audience than
his message on the economy.
By a 2-1 margin, speech
watchers polled by CNN-USA
Today-Gallup and ABC News
said President Bush made a
convincing case about the
need for the U.S. to take mili-
tary action against Iraq.
Those in the Gallup poll
were less convinced the econ-
omy will be helped by his
plans for speeding up tax cuts
and pushing a new $674 bil-
lion plan that relies heavily on
tax cuts. About half in the
Gallup poll, 49 percent, said
his program is likely to get
this country out of its current
economic problems, and 43
percent said it would not. The
ABC poll also suggested
speech watchers were more
impressed by his Iraq
remarks.
Fleischer said. only two members of the 15-
Secretary of State Colin member Security Council, Spain
and Bulgaria. Eleven others held
out for giving U.N. inspectors
vision and said the Iraqi leader more time to hunt for illicit arms,
could avert war right away if he diplomats said.
Powell, in an interview with
ZDF Television of Germany,
WASHINGTON-The Bush
administration, t
whether to set a deadline for
Saddam Hussein to disarm,
offered on Wednesday to try to
help find a haven for the Iraqi yon jrom jj pq inspectors as well
would offer the drug benefit to
seniors willing to leave the tradi-
tional fee-for-service program
and join government-subsidized
health care plans administered
by insurance companies. But on
Wednesday, officials were non-
committal about whether the
administration would take that
route.
Republican Sen. Chuck
Grassley of Iowa, chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee
— which has jurisdiction over
Medicare reform — indicated
Wednesday he would not sup-
port a plan that limited prescrip-
tion drug coverage to those who
agree to leave traditional fee-for-
service Medicare.
“We need to strengthen
Medicare, first by adding pre-
scription drug coverage that’s
available for all seniors, not just
those that switch into managed
care,” Grassley said. “All of our
changes should be voluntary. If
you like what you have now, you
should be able to keep it. That
means I won’t draw lines on
drug coverage, regardless of the
choice they make.”
Perhaps reflecting some of the
criticism, Bush aides said
Wednesday it could be weeks
before specifics are rolled out.
Spokesman Ari Fleischer said
the administration was still
finalizing key elements of the
plan.
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“There are members of the
crisis with Iraq. council who are asking for time
At a crucial council meeting a but it isn’t a matter of time. It 's ;
day after President Bush’s State matter of whether Iraq realizes
of the Union speech, 11 of the 15 that the game is up, or whether ii
members supported giving more is trying to keep the inspectors ai
time to weapons inspectors to bay,” British Ambassador Jeremy
pursue Iraq’s peaceful disarma- Greenstock said during a breai
ment — France, Russia and in the meeting.
China who all have veto power as U.S. diplomats had hopec
well as Germany, Mexico, Chile, Wednesday’s council meeting
Guinea, Cameroon, Syria, would signal increased interna
Angola and Pakistan, council tional support for military actior
diplomats told The Associated in Iraq. But neither the largely
Press. negative reports from weapon*
Only Bulgaria and Spain inspectors this week nor Bush’;
backed the United States and address altered the positions o!
Britain in focusing on Iraq’s fail- some of America's key allies
rather than continued including France.
Granberg-Michaelson said that's age. But there was widespread
the likely timetable to go from “His proposal is really a bene- confusion — even among key
the planning stage to formal fit for HMOs,” said Rep. Nancy Republicans — over his
launch of the organization.
One sticking point: The
nation’s largest T
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PRESIDENT BUSH SPEAKING a day after his State of the Union address, took his medicare reform mes- officials said an exile scenario
was not under serious considera- detained
been anything like this attempt-
ed before in this country,”
Brown said.
The Rev. Wesley Granberg- the budget, will make us say
Michaelson, steering committee firmly, ’We fulfilled our promise
chair and chief executive of the to the seniors of America, "Bush
Reformed Church in America, said.
called the meeting “a remark- He offered no details, but even
able breakthrough. We gathered as he spoke, on Capitol Hill
a wide representation of the there was growing criticism of
Christian churches in the U.S.A. Bush’s proposal.
and were able to inspire them Democrats and some con-
into making a deep commitment sumer groups contended the
together.” “ plan would deny the elderly the
Brown said the U.S. Catholic doctors of their choice by forc-
hierarchy could decide on the ing them into HMOs if they
proposal 'within two years, wanted prescription drug cover- re-election.
Granberg-Michaelson said that's age. T
the likely timetable to go from .
and agencies over the next sever-
al weeks to join them.
The loosely knit alliance
would represent five segments
of U.S. Christianity, listed in the
plan as
“Evangelical/Pentecostal,
Historic Protestant, Orthodox,
Racial/Ethnic and Roman
Catholic.”
The Catholic church and most
evangelicals and Pentecostals do
not belong to the National
Council of Churches, which is
currently the nation’s largest
ecumenical group. If the new
alliance does emerge, it could President Bush ran into GOP
supplant the National Council or and Democratic resistance to his
radically alter its role in Medicare reform proposal
American Christianity. Wednesday, with even White
Catholic Bishop Tod Brown of House allies saying they were
Orange, Calif., and Baltimore’s confused about what the presi-
Cardinal William Keeler were dent intended to propose and a
among the 55 participants who key Republican pledging to
met at Fuller Theological block the plan.
Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Bush flew more than 1,000
Both are members of the U.S. miles round-trip to highlight a
Conference of Catholic top domestic priority: revamping
Bishops’ecumenical committee. Medicare to give beneficiaries
“I don’t think there has ever prescription drug subsidies.
•------.a..— ni._ .l:. ...---. “A reformed and strengthened
Medicare system, plus a healthy
dosage of Medicare spending in
week in New York, Bush’s
National Security Council culled
intelligence data for Powell to
present next Wednesday in a
weighing puyjc session.
Powell intends to demonstrate
a concerted effort by Iraq to con-
ceal its weapons of mass destruc-
president and his henchmen as as jraqj ijn)<s (0 ai-Qajja and
a way to avert war. other terror groups.
But time appeared to be run- Some of the information was
ning out, and State Department known to have been provided by
c..;c;a.c ar. scenario China, some by terror suspects
i in Afghanistan.
Church leaders from 30
denominations agreed
Wednesday on a proposal to cre-
ate the broadest alliance of
Christians ever formed in the
United States.
The steering committee of the
budding effort, tentatively called
Christian Churches Together in
the U.S.A., will invite a wide
range of national church^bodies sage to Qranc| Raping Michigan Wednesday. Bush said Wednesday that $400 billion in new Medicare UCIQ„1CU U1 ™
"" . . spending over a decade would make sure the program fulfills its promise to our seniors by adding flexi- tion. “We’re entering the final Photographs may be made* pub -
hilHv ond Afford o nmenrintiAn Hr,,rf honofit Mr thn firet timO phase" only a narr0W "diplo- g
matic window" remained open, But at the United Nations, the
White House spokesman Ari United States drew support from
^12. only two members of the 15-
Pelosi, D-Calif. Medicare plan.
Even some Republicans “We’re not even close to
Protestant weren’t enthusiastic, with Sen. understanding what the presi-
denomination, the Southern Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, saying dent is going to propose,” House
Baptist Convention, may be the "president’s focus on ways to Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-
reluctant to Join, though it had an reform Medicare could hamper Texas, said on Capitol Hill,
observer at the meeting. our efforts to pass comprehensive * ' ■ ■ ■ -
The idea of a broad Christian prescription coverage."
alliance emerged from discus- Bush, meanwhile, tried to
sions three years ago within the showcase the softer side of his
National Council.'Die council is domestic and international
not sponsoring the new unity agenda, promoting new AIDS
effort, though its chief executive money and Medicare changes
is participating in it. while visiting a state vital to his
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — inspections.
Key members on the U.N. At the daylong Security
Security Council said Council meeting, which wa*
Wednesday that the United held behind closed doors, Britair
States had so far failed to con- remained squarely ir
vince them that time had run out Washington's camp.
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As a result, actual shortfalls are
sur-
bottom line left in the budget?'
The budget office’s projected $199
that same period.
The bleak forecast further inflamed
ByALANFRAM
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — This year’s fed-
eral deficit will soar to $199 billion
even without President Bush’s new tax
cut plan or war .
Congressional Budget Office said
Wednesday in a report that cast doubt
on <’ ........
anytime soon.
for a $111 billion deficit in 2004 also and spending plans. White House bud-
i an
new report. interview Tuesday that it will predict a
Since CBO's projections include deficit for this year of close to $300 bil-
none of the tax and spending initiatives lion — without a war.
J CBO said the surplus for the decade
are meant as a benchmark for measur- beginning in 2004 will exceed $1.3 tril-
lion, without any action by Congress.
spending initiatives — which no one books. Bush wants more tax cuts and Medicare. He said the best way to
considers realistic — small annual sur- spending restraint, while Democrats trol deficits is to foster economic
pluses would not return until 2007, a prefer higher spending and smaller tax growth and limit federal spending.
year later than the office predicted in reductions. Republicans echoed his argument that lawmakers are likely to tackle, they
August. “ “The elephant in the room he didn’t Wednesday. They added that for now,
In perhaps the starkest depiction of mention last night was the deficit," said deficits would have to play second fid- ing future action.
me nonpartisan ouaget onice pro- accuse each other of speeding the posed spending initiatives including a f r or
jected that without action on any tax or downward spiral of the government’s $400 billion, 10-year expansion of got worse, rising to $145 billion in the get chief Mitchell Daniels said in
spending initiatives — which no one books. Bush wants more tax cuts and Medicare. He said the best way to con-
Congressional budget forecast dims - without tax cuts or war
how rapidly the government ’s long- Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina, top die to initiatives aimed at invigorating
range outlook has eroded, the budget Democrat on the House Budget the economy and confronting terrorism, almost certain to be worse. Private
office said Wednesday that it envi- Committee, referring to the president's "If the only index you look at is cash economists have said this year’s deficit
sioned a cumulative $20 billion surplus State of the Union address. "The ques- flow, you may be missing the point” will likely exceed $300 billion — sur-
over the decade that began last year. In tion he avoided was: How would he do that there are other important priorities, passing the record $290 billion shortfall
May 2001, the office projected an all the things he’s talking about in the said E™^ C„.
against Iraq, the unprecedented $5.6 trillion surplus for State of the Union and have any kind of Chairman Jim Nussle, R-Iowa.
dpet Office said i—is >>.« Tk„ k..j—. .cv.——s—..
In his speech, Bush renewed his call billion deficit for this year compared Monday, and it will forecast larger
chances for balancing the budget this year’s budget fight between Bush for a $674 billion, 10-year tax-cutting with a $145 billion shortfall it projected deficits than CBO’s because it will
/ • and congressional Democrats, who plan to fortify the economy, and pro- in August. Its forecast five months ago include the costs of the president's tax
The nonpartisan budget office pro- accuse each other of speeding the posed spending initiatives including
all the things he’s talking about in the said House Budget Committee of 1992, when Bush’s father was presi-
dent.
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