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NEWS-REVIEW - December 30, 1971 - THE NEWS-REVIEW SPORTS £1 TALK SgL 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. WRDW New Year’s Show 3rd EYE JANUARY Ist [j| A 1 STARRING VICKI ANDERSON IL |* W "i'll Work lx Out” THE TEMPREES IK ||l " Baby Love'* IKIIH GEATOR DAVIS 'Sweet Woman s Love" S 4 00 in Advance $4.50 at the Door Sj; Usual Places ; JW * Placed By LEEDS & ASSOCIATES ~ 1122 Green Street Auguata, Georgia Vicki AndWSOII When You Need To Know What's Happening I M BUY A POLICE MONITOR H Hi Band UHF Scanner Radio (City-County) we now I MORE IN gfefr ||K|£MgMg| STOCK | For Exciting Listening ■ .■taBHBB i,s ls9 95 Crystals) AUGUSTA RADIO CO. Page 4 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. wK IVY ■ 1.1 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 HIGHTOWER'S NURSERY 337 Walker Street For information call 724-8566 between 10 a.m. - 12 noon - Monday through Friday. Will be in operation February 5, 1972 USRY’S SEAFOOD MARKET “Eat the fish today that was sleeping in the Gulf last night ' 2005 OLD SAVANNAH ROAD | (North) i “AUGUSTA’S FRESHEST FISH” I Open Thun., Fri., & Sat 9 A.M. to 6:30 P.M. ■ ■ lll ll ■ ‘ ' Klf-Lfc a 1 fS'HTJW - CzJL ;• AR. Johnson Junior High School football players, No. 1 in Richmond County, pose with coaches Barnes, Billups (L) Hill, (R) and Principal BryanL 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. 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