Seizing initiative in Iraq amid Saddam capture fallout
After Saddam Hussein's capture, debate turns to postwar reconstruction and justice. Bush seeks European reconciliation with France and Germany while James Baker ventures to negotiate debt, as Paris Club nations hold leverage over Iraq's $40 billion US debt and broader $580 billion nonclub claims.
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Saddam Hussein
Iraq
United States
France
Germany
Saddam
George W. Bush
Bush
Tony Blair
James Baker
Baker
Europe
Japan
Russia
Pans Club
Paris Club
Austin American-Statesman
Death-benefit idea for Texas teachers stalls on details
The Dallas Morning News notes critics question a plan to fund teachers' retirement via life insurance policies tied to deaths. Experts doubt its feasibility, while the health care portion needs at least $1 billion soon. The piece urges lawmakers to seek more straightforward funding increases or higher teacher contributions.
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Uip
Phil Granna
Rick Perry
Pun
Stat
Gramm
Texas
Devel
Dallas Morning News
Baytown Sun Seeks Letters and Guest Columns
The Baytown Sun invites readers to submit letters up to 300 words and columns up to 500 words on public interest topics. Include a street address and phone number for publication, limit submissions to one per month, and note that all submissions may be edited or refused. Send to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom at The Baytown Sun P.O. Box 90 Baytown 77522 or by fax 281 427 1880 or email surmews baytownsun.com.
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Sun
Wanda Garner Cash
David Bloom
Baytown Sun
P.O. Bas
Baytown
Baytownsun
Christmas Help Request From Mont Belvieu Family
A Mont Belvieu family in dire need seeks help to finish their home. The husband is diabetic and recently lost his job while the wife works part time at a convenience store. They have two boys, ages 17 and 12. The home is unfinished with drafty eaves, no heat aside from space heaters, a concrete floor, and unclear kitchen facilities. A neighbor plans to assist with labor but needs materials and aid from organizations.
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Mont Belvieu
Sharon Broadway
Baytown
Gentry Band Praised For Impressing Winter Concert
A Baytown reader celebrates the Gentry Band's Winter Concert with the Training sixth grade Symphonic and Honors bands earning first division region ratings. The letter expresses pride in students hard work and invites readers to visit rssband.org for more information.
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E Chler
Jones
Gentry Band
Baytown
Ross S_ Sterling High School
Rssband.org
Brian Jones Baytown
Memory of a Texas Railroad Dad and His 43 Years
A Jacksonville native recalls his father’s long career with the Southern Pacific railroad. He worked 43 years, retiring in 1963, largely commuting between Jacksonville and Dallas with three weekly trips lasting about eight hours each way, making many freight stops along the route.
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Dallas
Santa Claus
Jacksonville
Texas
Southern Pacific Railroad
This Day in History December 18 Highlights Through Time
From 1865 the 13th Amendment took effect abolishing slavery. New Jersey joined the U.S. Constitution ratification in 1787. Tchaikovsky premiered The Nutcracker Suite in 1892. Hitler ordered preparations for a Soviet invasion in 1940. Supreme Court rulings in 1944 on Japanese-American relocation and loyalty. Britain abolished the death penalty in 1969. Jesse Jackson founded Operation PUSH in 1971. U.S. heavy bombing of North Vietnam began in 1972. A Gore Kohl meeting in 1990s focused on Russia.
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New Jersey
Tchaikovsky
St. Petersburg
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Supreme Court
Britain
Jesse Jackson
Chicago
People United To Save Humanity
United States
North Vietnam
Germany
Boris Yeltsin
Oggersheim
al Gore
Helmut Kohl
Fire insurance key rate rises in Baytown in 1950
The Baytown Sun notes that in 1950 the city fire insurance key rate climbed to 46 cents, reflecting changes in local risk assessment and premium structures affecting homeowners and businesses.
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Baytown Sun
Robert Kerr
Harris County Federal Savings and Loan Association
Julia Ann Villa
Engineered Carbons Inc
Precinct 2
Jim Fontena
Fontena
Sylvia Garcia
Baytown City Hall Officials and Council Meeting Schedule
City Hall at 2401 Market St lists City Manager Gary Jackson and Mayor Pete Alfaro with council members for six districts. Members serve two-year terms and meet the second and fourth Thursdays at 6 30 p m in City Hall.
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Market St. Baytown
Texas
Gary Jackson
Pete Alfaro
Mercedes Renteria I
Scott Sheley
Calvin Mundinger
Don Murray
Ronnie Anderson
Coleman Godwin
City Hall
S. Whiting Baytown
Martha Ellis
Board of Regents
Bill Blake
Keith Coburn
Don Coffey
Wayne Gray
Susan Moore-Fontenot
Ronald Haddox
Mark Hall
Mark Hirmsen
Jess D. Navarre
Tucker Hall
Goose Creek CISD and Barbers Hill and Anahuac district notices
A compilation of school district contact details, trustees and officers across Goose Creek CISD Barbers Hill Anahuac and related boards. Includes superintendent names board member districts phone numbers terms meeting schedules and locations Tucker Hall and other offices with election cadence noted.
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Barbers Hill
P.O. Box
Mont Belvieu
Texas
Tim Sonnenberg
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der Anne Navarre
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Ray Jones
Laura Henry
Nelson Nolan
Clark and
Tommie Day
RSS
Santa
City of
Goose Creek
Goose Creek Administration
Interstate
East
Barbara Sultis
Board of Trustees
Phelutria Bames
Rosa Rodriguez
Weston Cotten
James Lewis
Clarence Albus
Jepp Busch
Steve Fischer
Barbers Hill Isd
Anahuac
ISD
Linda Kay Barnhart
Clint Fancher
Gayle Peveto
Allen Herrington
Thomas
Gene” Baker
Eddie Foster
Jessie D. “Dee” Leggett
Kendall L. Barrow
Lee College
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