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NEWS-REVIEW - December 30, 1971 -
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Henri Freeman A
MAYBE TOO MANY SUPERSTARS
HINDERED LAKERS
When Elgin Baylor was doing his “thing” with the Los Angeles
Lakers, the Lakers won their share of games and was a good team.
But despite the fact that Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and
Baylor, all superstars, were on the team, the team never was the
winner that it is today.
Many basketball fans, when Chamberlain joined Baylor and
West on the Lakers team, concluded that this team would
dominate NBA play for several years. However, such an era never
materialized as long as Baylor played.
With Baylor now retired, the Lakers are the scourge of the
NBA, and we are not forgetting the powerful Milwaukee Bucks.
Their 28 game winning streak is the best ever in the League.
Why has this unusual turn of events taken place? Can it be that
too many superstars on the same team tend to bring about more
individualized play rather than team play? If this was not the
case, it seemed that way for the Lakers now appear to be playing
more as a team and not just five players. Let us not forget,
though, LA has a new coach, the former Boston Celtic great Bill
Sharman.
YEPREMIAN COULD HAVE BEEN BLAMED
Had Jan Stenerud made good on either of his two easy field
goal attempts in the Miami-Kansas City game last week, Garo
Yepremian could have been blamed for the Chiefs win. His
kick-offs were noticeably not strong enough to prevent run-backs
by Chiefs’ runners. Consequently, KC’s kick-off returns in the
overtime period had them in winning positions twice from which
they were unable to score via the field goal route.
Stenerud, each time he stuck his foot into the ball, drove it out
of the end zone, thus not return. Dame fortune just smiled on the
Dolphins when Stenerud missed, and Yepremian got his chance to
be the hero, and his team a chance to move closer to the Super
Bowl game.
NIMS HAS HAD HIS TROUBLES
Coach Ernest Tolbert had counted on Johnny Nims putting in
much time for the Paine Lions this season, but so far the ex-Lucy
Laney star has had nothing but the injury “bug” haunt him. First
it was an arm; then a foot, both keeping him out of action.
The lanky freshman no doubt is “pleading” with dame fortune
to smile on him after the holiday break so that he can boost the
stock of the Lions the rest of the way. The genial Lions’ mentor
could use the height (6’4”) that Nims could bring with his entry
in the team’s remaining games.
“BAD” BOY THOMAS WON’T EAT CROW
Duane Thomas is reported to have said that the Dallas
Cowboys could not win without him. At the rate he is leading the
Cowboys toward the Super Bowl in January, he can’t help but
have a lot of people eating crow.
The Cowboys may not take it all in the NFL, cut they will
have to admit that the return of Thomas from the New England
Patriots was the key that unlocked the door to success up to this
point. This is to take nothing from the stellar performances of
Stauback and others on the Dallas team.
Not only will Thomas have the last laugh; he is very much on
his way toward being in a position to ask for the BIG PAY.
However, the Cowboys’ front office will have the Nixon
Administration on their side.
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The United States has
always had enemies. Now,
many Americans, including
some in very high places,
believe we have more than our
share.
Members of the United
Nations insist they at? voting
strictly on a matter of UN
policy when they expelled
Tiawan from its seat in favor of
Peking. More likely, however
ROLLINS
Cont’d from page 1
which the people of our
community already feel toward
the Washington government
and federal courts.
I understand your relations
with and objections to the
Fifth Circuit Court, but
somehow I had hoped that
those basic characteristics of
your nature as displayed
previously in your cases would
come forward as they did with
Judge Bootle in Macon when
he said that the public schools
there had been battered
enough, and as the judges on
the Atlanta case said, in
substance, they would have no
further part in making Atlanta
an all black city.
Before you order that small
children be torn from their
homes and transported into a
hostile community, I hope you
will try to picture yourself in
the place of that young mother
and father. Many of them have
already become emotionally
unbalanced in anticipating
being forced to put their small
child on a bus and carried into
the heart of a community that
has murder from gunshots and
knifing almost every week. Just
a few days ago there was a
shooting in front of Lucy
Laney High School at about
the time school turned out,
and a Laney student was hit.
Our people remember vividly
the riot of last year in which at
least six people were killed;
and this happened at the very
place their children are being
forced to go. With the
explosive conditions which
exist at the present time
between the blacks and whites,
another riot could happen at
any time. I shudder to think
what would happen to a group
of white students who might
be caught in the Negro
community at a time like that.
I wish it were possible for
you and other judges who
order these massive forced
integration plans in the high
schools to see the daily
conflicts between the black
and white students and listen
to the principals, most of
whom will tell you that not
only is there always a bitter
hatred between the students,
but that the over-all
educational achievement has
been critically damaged.
If after looking at the
situation here in Augusta and
Richmond County you find
the understanding and
compassion in your heart to
refuse to become the
instrument by which chaos is
brought to our schools and
perhaps to our whole
community, you would receive
the greatest measure of
gratitude from our citizens and
restore to many thousands of
people some of the respsect
and esteem which our federal
courts should enjoy.
Respectfully yours,
Roy E. Rollins
BILL CLAY ON
CAPITOL HILL
is the widely held notion that
the vote, was, indeed, a world
head-count for or against the
United States and the recent
U.S. policies. That is not to say
that Tiawan would have held
its seat had the United States
not been its chief advocator. It
is strange though, that with ail
our catering of the “allied”
nations, with all our efforts in
behalf of the “underdeveloped
nations”, with all our security
” pacts and treaties, and with all
our financial support virtually
holding the UN together, this
country was unable to muster
enough support in the body of
the United Nations to prevail
in its two-China policy.
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CONGRESSMAN CLAY
Not only was the United
States defeated, but the defeat
was accompanied by a burst of
glee on the floor of the General
Assembly which strongly
resembled an outright
“nose-thumbing” at this
country. It added insult to the
injury and prompted a rebuff
from Nixon himself.
Americans have always
maintained that we do not
expect “gratitude” for all the
money we have spent around
the world and that no
obligation goes with the sale or
grant of arms and ammunition
to foreign nations. But when
nations voted against us or
refused to help us win the UN
vote, the United States
responded by refusing to pass
any foreign aid appropriation
bill. And in all fairness, the
Senate action reflected the
mood of the general public.
The Nixon Administration is
outraged at the United States
Senate as well. In spite of both
votes, Nixon remains
convinced that the prestige and
security of the United States
depends upon a policy of
patronage toward other nations
less fortunate than our own.
He is unable to grasp the cold
hard fact that other nations are
not playing the “world” game
by our rules.
It should also be pointed out
that Nixon himself is at issue.
He is the one who has
continued in Vietnam by
overruling a public mandate for
total withdrawal. And he is the
one who recent economic
policies haven’t won us any
points with the world
community.
If the UN defeat brings
about a revamping of foreign
policy and foreign aid
expenditures, it will have
achieved what decades of
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political debate and public
disgruntlement have not. One
would hope that the Congress
wouldn’t stop merely by
halting foreign aid - but that
we would bring an immediate
halt to the fiasco in Vietnam
which, more than anything
else, is responsible for the loss
of U.S. prestige. While
revamping foreign policy, this
Nation would be well-advised
to spend those monies
developing the resources and
people here in our own
country - providing jobs and
opportunities where none are
presently available. Such an
effort could well do more for
U.S. prestige than other efforts
in the backyards of other
Nations.
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