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4 t I Thursday, November 7, 1985Arhe Battalion/Page 5 dido by Kevin Thomas howdy/ this is your FRIENDLY NEI6WBORHOOD CAftroOVIST/ • « 3 ops: cm co< £2: ox i§ H HUMOR CAW BE A VERY DANGEROUS THING. IN THE WORLD OF SATIRE. YOU ALWAYS TAKE THE CHANCE OF OFEENDING SOMEONE! ICIfll £3 By MARK RUDOLPH bunl Reporter ■he Confederate defeat in the Can fjvil War resulted from a culture of antllence and aggression that domi- ' 'njitecl the South during that period, laid a specialist on Southern liistory mil:Wednesday night. if Hr he Confederate’s bled them- ielvesto death in the first three years rf the Civil War by attacking,” said Or. Grady McWhiney, a Lyndon wnes Johnson Professor of Ameri- ! „ ;an History at Texas Christian Uni- , jifsity and the author of “Attack Civil War mtorian soys violence dominoted South ty at " jnd I)ie: Civil War Military Tactics jnd the Southern Heritage/’. ive; McWhiney spoke during the sec- on )nd annual Military Studies Lecture ih iponsored by the Military Studies c vKtitute at Texas A&M. iSitlj McWhiney explained his theory ‘d rfthe Confederate defeat, dtrfi'he culture of the South made Tyler mon to lead Boptist convention n )le impatient, McWhiney said. 'hey didn’t like waiting,” he added. McWhiney said the Confederates didn’t have the manpower to sustain their losses during the first three years, and this led to their defeat. The loss of 30,000 men at Cettys- burg and the surrender of another 30,000 men at Vicksburg in the fall of 1863 forced the Confederate army to remain on the defensive, McWhiney said. By that time, Gen. Robert E. Lee had lost 120,000 men and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant merely had to light a war of attrition. “Confederate morale went down steadily after that period,” McWhi ney said. McWhiney said the Southern cul ture can be traced back to their Cel tic ancestry. He supported this the ory with evidence from James Vhiney compared the aggres- >s of the Confederate army to Michael Hill’s, “Celtic Warfare: 1503-176.3.” McWhiney siveness of the Confederate army _ the aggressiveness and barbarism of the (/elts during the 17th and 18th centuries. McWhiney said he wrote his book because he was interested in the be havior of Southerners. He said his interests in the history of the South are because he is a Southerner. Hubert Van Tuyll, acting interim director of the Military Studies Insti tute, said McWhiney was chosen for the lecture because he is a distin guished historian of the South. The Military Studies Institute, formed early in 1984 under a char ter by the Texas A&M Board of Re gents, concentrates on contempo rary defense issues and on military history, especially that of Texas and the Southwest. )!a« Associated Press mki SAN ANTONIO — Paul Pow- roi ell, a fundamentalist Tyler min- iiit jister described as “a moderate without a liberal drop of blood in his body and a fundamentalist '■ without a Messiah complex,” was e ! i: elected Tuesday as president of a the 2.3 million-member Baptist lts |C>eneral Convention of Texas. I0 *B Powell, pastor of the 6,300- laember church in Tyler since ie it iT972 and on the board of trustees v n i at Baylor University, said he be- y 0 K Keves scripture “is inspired, it is j n » infallible, it is inerrant. ir [,: “A lot of people get hung up »on words — playing silly word games,” he said of a controversy m the Southern Baptist Conven- I tion over biblical inerrantcy. 11 The dispute, which has divided the nation’s largest Protestant drti congregation for years, “has cre- | ateu a lot of suspicion so that we have a tendency to label one an other,” Powell said. “People won der whose side are they on? We ought to all be on the Lord’s I side.” hoiis Worker error may be cause of refinery explosion, fire Associated Press MONT BELVIEU — Two work ers may have been killed in fiery ex plosions at an underground gas stor age vault because they cut the wrong pipe or failed to drain the line, offi cials said Wednesday. James Hof f mann, 30, of Cove and Richard Duncan, 25, of Baytown were doing maintenance work Tues day on a 3-foot underground pipe line at the Warren Petroleum Co. re finery and storage plant, according to Cul Ingram, spokesman for Chev ron Inc. Chevron owns the 300-acre complex which is about 30 miles east of Houston. The pipeline ruptured, spewing ethane, propane, isobutane and gas oline and triggering a series of ex plosions and tires that took firefight ers almost six hours to control, Ingram said. ^'The pipeline that was being worked on apparently had some material in it, and whether this was human error, whether the pipeline was inadvertently cut is something we’re still investigating,” he said. Mont Belvieu Mayor Fred Miller ordered the evacuation of the entire town of L20Q., fearing the fire would spread through a network of gas lines beneath trie city. Miller lifted the order Tuesday night for all but about 300 residents living in the area surrounding the plant. Although company officials say the area is safe, tne mayor said the remaining 300 residents probably would not be allowed to return home. “The plant officials are trying to find out what caused this, and it would just be easier to keep every body away from there until they’re finished,” Miller said. But after touring the plant with Chevron officials Wednesday, the mayor said the remaining evacuees would be allowed to return. “Everybody can go home that w'ants to,” Miller said. Small flares were used Wednes day to burn off hydrocarbons left in pipelines and prevent further explo sions. Ingram said damages from the fires and explosions will run “into the millions.’ He said about 10 per cent of the plant will be closed for several weeks. “An investigation will go on for a week, at least,” he said. “This is a substantial fire and a lot of damage. 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