Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 78, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 3, 1999 Page: 4 of 26
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EDITORIAL
INI POX COUNTY I
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3.1999
Letters to the editor
Zero toler
both to
I of violence b 10
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md uae
_ private
I schools.' Recently my baity
a
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| two choice*.
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dropped Pi] off to the eeriemai
22 ifr fea
from Ltr-
I the junior high to (be high
I school. She tried oat aad made
I the Li viagetoo High School drill
I team aad vae uridng two ad-
well until last week. My hated
and 1 received a phone call during
I sixth period by my daughter, who
rang. I ate why rim wailed ao
long to call home; feafi when
jeer’s request, waa flgfefefel Be
I could not call home to aetenoa
lin resolving this situation. We
{immediately went to the school
lio find out what had happened.
[We were then told by the assis-
tant principal that she had spoken
to both girls and the other student
did admit to striking my daughter
in the head with the ameer We
I were then hdbtmed that the
door. We are i
In m»
i* mentality,
a We one In
Colorado have to occur before we
wake up and realize violence Is
violence in its least or greatest
toms? If children are allowed to
hit other students with ao re-
course, what will they do next?
My plea as a parent is, stop the
violence, all the violence. ZERO
TOLERANCE!
Route < Box 1)9
Livingston
The un-liberal madia?
To the editor!
Hat the Polk County Enter*
I prise always been so ana-elded?
Of come the editors are lim-
ited in the later to editor pages to
the conuepandcnoe received. And
jM breed on the letters pubBehed.
| duly right-wing conaervatlvm
mi to have the arodvation or
I time to write letters. However,
life remainder of
could certainly be more
I
The editorials and columas la
the Sunday, Sept 26. edition of
the Enterprise were representative
of the him df all issues:
. The coverage of the upcoming
i meeting of the conservative rigbt-
of the group. The author bfled to
mention the controversy that ear
rounds this group of misogynist
men. Promise Keepers openly
jcalls to wives to 'submit' to
mlity hi marriage and calling to
_jen to "take* their role as leader
of the family. Promise Keeper
Tony Evans states, *1 am not
suggesting that you ask to your
role bock, I am urging you to
take it back. Than can be no
compromise* here.
In this same edition. BeUye
Washington's column pro-
ctometL "America built on bibli-
cal principles.' She contends that
'when prayer
schools), evil wafead in and
’ Surely she's not teg to
all of our achools' prob-
ing. Will you be ready to him r
Everybody, look busy.
Also fat this issue, Leoaor
a urged ua to
me meaning of
holidays.' She must be talking
about the Winter Solstice. But I
fear she's referring to the
of Christ. Around 336 AD. fee
Ch
of
rated homes, singing and gift giv-
As an acti ve 'membar of this
community, I urge other open-
minded progressive people hi dh-
of our community, ftuthennore,
I encourage the edtan of the
Polk County Enterprise to oon-
RR 5 Box 31f
Livingston
Russell Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202)224-2934
r
'oik County's representatives
Phil Grammi
KiyJaHay
Room 284
Washington, D C. 20510
(202)224-3922
PAX: (202) 224-0776
WatefM. DjC. 2B3I5
(202)225-2401 ,
FAX: (202) 225-5955
701 N. Pint. Room 201
Lufldn. TX 75901
(409)637-1779
320 North St. Ste. 301
Nacogdoches, TX 75961
(409)3644232
PAX: (409) 5644276
Texas Home
of Representatives
P.O. Box 2910
SE2804
Aasda, IX 78768-2910
(512)463-0570
a
920 15th St.
HuotsviUe. TX 77340
(409)291-8441
or
P.O. Box 114
305 W. Mill
Livingston, TX 77351
(409)327-5181
Weekly Special
Reinventing government: Right to privacy
WASHINGTON - Walt
Rally’s comic chnacmr Pago
Ha won
Mi yon
motive to
act Ini
Two potoo: Ha
Ja
assume feey have suck a right
They do noL The public's
(majority's) right to know has
privacy.
"fern * '***
by the
was thought to have
ed by dm lint 10
to fee Constitution,
sty of laauaa, feu rights of feu
fern of feu BIB of Rights, Includ-
ing: A Right to Privacy.
laws):
“conMeatiaT in returns fat civil
sexual behavior.
SUVs or ANARCHY: Bigger is
better when Newton's Second
Law (For every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction) is at
play, every (fey on America’s
of sport utility
vehicles (including minivans)
Joined wife pickup trucks to swell
fee ranks of Mg. heavy vehicles.
But SUVs fed not make the roads
safer to driven of smaller vehi-
ctes. in tact, me statistics are
both startling and socially reveal-
ing. Most Americans could not
afford the bigger, safer vehicles.
Worse, still, the typical car’s
weight went down to accommo-
date aerodynamic, fuel-efficient
exacerbating die weight
1
recent yean, 80 percent of
highway htalidos resulted from i
collision between an SUV and a
passenger car, and 80 percent of
those deaths were inflicted on
of the oassenaers car.
CAPITOL
COMMENT
U.S. SENATOR
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
NASA CLIFFHANGER - - I.
/\ ne of the moat talked-about films of the summer of 1999 was “The
I I Phantom Menace," part of the Star Wan series that has sparked the
V-/ imaginations of people around the world. But you didn't have to be
in a movie theater to space thrills and excitement on the morning of July 31.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) put on a
pretty good show when its Lunar Prospector mission ended in dramatic
fashion, crashing violently into the moon. Powerful telescopes on Earth
watched the controlled descent for clues that water vapor had been splashed
up into the lunar sky.
All the data isa't in yet, but there's a very good chance that water was,
indeed, present. Earlier, during a mapping mission. Lunar Prospector scien-
tists found indirect evidence of water contained in countless ice crystals
sprinkled across the moon's surface.
Such a discovery may have the potential to change man's destiny. The
presence of significant amounts of water there raises the possibility of
sstablishing s human colony on the moon. This is a prospect that until now has
remained the stuff of fiction and blockbuster movies.
Launched in January of 1998, Prospector also provided scientists with
invaluable maps of the moon's gravitational fields and information about the
composition of Earth's only natural satellite before it crashed.
NASA’s most recent accomplishments hold out the promise of a future
m exciting as the days of its Apollo missions. This is one of the reasons I
continue to be a committed advocate for America's space program, but
sometimes it’a an uphill fight.
Every year since I entered the Senate, the battle for NASA funding has
been a cliff hanger. This year wat no different In July, the House of
Representatives approved a measure that cut NASA's budget by nearly 10
percent. This would have jeopardized the space agency's high-priority
international Space Station project, as well as a number of other cutting-edge
sciCHUiV vApIciatious like the Lunarrroipccioi. This would be short sighted
in the extreme.
The Space Station has reached a critical point, and it is vital to ensure that
NASA has the resources it needs to cany this mission forward. You can’t cut
nearly a billion dollars from a highly technical project and continue to meet
the space program's important goals.
When the appropriate Senate subcommittee took up NASA's budget in
September, 1 went to the mat to get that funding restored, and succeeded.
Now I intend to work to sac that NASA's $13.6 billion in funding remains
largely intact though the remainder of the budget process. Congress knows
well that a strong space program furthers the national interest by advancing
the frontiers of pure science in such disciplines as physics, medicine and
electronics.
In addition to the Space Station, restoration of funding for NASA also
will preserve scientific inquiries into human survivability during long-term
space travel, and the production of unique materials and compounds in a zero-
gravity environment.
Our country's vibrant economy and high standard of living would not be
what they are today without NASA. Scientific advances result in economic
growth that is the envy of the world. Possibly the greatest NASA spinoff of
all is the microprocessor. The personal computers we all use are the direct
result of NASA's development of smaller computers needed for space travel
Hie Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation system was developed
through space. Weather satellites make it possible for forecasters to warn in
of hurricanes, tornadoes and snow storms, giving us time to take shelter and
rrdurc property damage.
Medical science has been transformed. NASA research has given us the
pacemaker, the defibrillator and countless other life-saving advances. A laser
system fust used to tmellite based atmospheric expen menu now is used to
treat arteriosclerosis, a leading cause of death in the United States.
Thanks to the apace program, we enjoy lower-cost cooling and heating
systems in our homes, long-life power conveners, safer chemical storage, air
and water purification, and better waste management and recycling systems.
It has even led to better athletic shoes and scratch-resistant sunglasses.
NASA has been one of die major contributors to this country' s greatness
in die 20* century. To not support the space program with the funds it needs
to move forward would be to deny our country the engineers, scientists and
astronauu of the future. I will continue to fight for that future
obvious, to
i laws. For
ie we have
of more po-
oo fee street to
now it is time
to do the same thing an oor high-
ways, where speeders, sleepers,
drunks aad dolts are naming
amok. It’s not Newton's Second
Law causing the cranage It's
Date's survival of fee fittest
that roles our asphalt jungles. It is
time to stop fee anarchy.
POLITICAL BEGGING: Former
Senate M^ority George
Mitchell, D-Maine:
"As Senate Majority Leader,
one of my responsibilities has
Inn! io schedule the operations of
fee Senate. Aad 1 can say to you
feat there’s hardly a day in the
past six yean when I’ve been
Majority Lender when one or
more senators han't called and
ate me not to have a vote at a
certain dme... One of the most
common reasons is that they are
either ixsMtag or attending a fund-
fusing event iiuii evening, enner
in Washington or outside Wash-
ington. If I put all the requests
together, fee Senate would never
vote. 1 once had my staff keep a
list of such requests on one day.-
and had I honored all of the re-
quests, there could not have been
a vote feat day. It covered the
period from nine am. until mid-
night"
TO INVESTIGATE ^
LEGISLATE: Here’s fee Hkafe
Iowa Republican Jim Leach.
e House Banking
a veteran of dm
is tef «5
untangle rabies from dollars, and
get to the bottom of
charge is that the CUmon-Gore
administration looked fee oth
dollars. v>!
- Waco: Republicans realize
fern Rep- Dan Burton, R-lnd., who
is leading the investigation, is not
their best spokesman, ao they’re
taking about creating a joint
House and Senate task force so
examine the government's role Jn
the conflagration that took fee
lives of the Branch Davidian cult
members. •*.
- FALN: Offering clemency 4o
jailed members of the Puerto Ri-
can nationalist group was not
President Clinton's most poputtr
act, but Congress is on shaky
ground when it demands die
president turn over private docu-
ments from former White Hotise
counsel Charles Ruff, who rec-
ommended fee clemency.
OpyrWM MXMmI Cbta
tMMktlhMhMn l|'« Unli, Im. -j
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