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In ‘The Zone’
CODY WAGES/The Battalion
Antonio Mora welds a brace on the opening of The Zone
at Kyle Field Friday. The Zone is scheduled to open in Fall
’99.
State leaders remember former Lt. Goven
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W. Bush re
membered former Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock as a
man who “embodied the Texas of our myths
and our hearts” at a Sunday funeral service
packed with state leaders.
“His passing leaves a hole and a hurt, like
we have lost our tie to an age of giants,” Bush
said at Austin’s Central Christian Church.
In a humor-filled eulogy peppered with ref
erences to Bullock’s reputation as a gruff yet ef
ficient leader. Bush joked about a first meeting
between the former lieutenant governor and St.
Peter.
“Bob has him locked in his conference room,
and he won’t let him out until he is happy with
the details of his plan for eternity,” Bush, who
was one of the last to visit Bullock before his
death Friday morning, said
“Everybody has a favorite Bob Bullock sto
ry,” Bush said. “The problem is, you can’t tell
most of them in polite company.”
Some of those packing the intimate church
just blocks from the Capitol were there. Bush
said, “to make sure he was really dead.”
The list of those in attendance bore witness
to Bullock’s long influence on Texas govern
ment. Former governors who paid tribute in
cluded Ann Richards, Dolph Briscoe, Preston
Smith, Mark White and Bill Clements. Lady
Bird Johnson, the former first lady, also at
tended, as did former Congressman Jake Pick
le.
House Speaker Pete Laney noted that after
Bullock retired at the end of the last session, he
continued to follow the daily workings of the
Legislature.
“Now at the end of another legislative ses
sion, as if he was finally satisfied that we could
carry on without him, he left us,” Laney, who
was a colleague of Bullock’s for more than 30
years, said.
Bullock’s career spanned more than four
decades and began in 1956 when he won a
Texas House seat from his hometown of Hills
boro while still a Baylor Law School student.
He went on to serve as an assistant attorney
general, governor’s aide, secretary of state and
state comptroller before becoming lieutenant
governor, the Senate’s presiding officer.
“I found [Bullock's]
heart much bigger than
his flaws... And I
learned I always wanted
him on my side in a
fight."
GOV. GEORGE
W. BUSH
After so many years in public service there
is not anything in Texas that does not have Bul
lock’s imprint, Bush said.
“He was an innovator, who brought state
government to the brink of the 21st century, yet
did so with reverence for our past,” said Bush.
“He controlled the gavel and the budget like
few before him. Everybody who follows in his
footsteps walks in his shadow.”
Bush said while praising him as a legend that
he would miss him as a friend, non
lock — a “neon personality in awe
— reached across political line;
“green governor.”
“I found his heart much
flaws. ... And 1 learned I alwaysw,
my side in a fight,” he said.
Former House Speaker Byronl
stressed that it was Bullock’s frii
meant the most. 'f
“It was as a friend that 1 knewfe
is a friend that 1 will miss him most
who joined the Legislature thesa
Bullock, said.
Despite his sometimes quick
said. “Those who feared him km
Bullock, 69, died Friday at his
after suffering from various he
over the years, including havinga
implanted in fall 1998 to treat
heartbeat.
He also spent years trying totji
and underwent treatment for al
1981.
Most recently, Bullock wash
congestive heart failure.
“Bob battled to the end,” Bushsa
Though Bullock sometimes jol
having time to die. Bush said, we alii
for death.
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Appellate court strikes down ruling
against white supremacist group
HOUSTON (AP) — An appellate court
has struck down a ruling that let Houston’s
public access cable channel charge a Mis
sissippi-based white supremacist group a
fee to air a program.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
New Orleans said Friday that Houston’s
$100-per-hour fee for non-locally produced
programming could violate free-speech
rights.
The judges sent the case back to a low
er court for further proceedings.
The Nationalist Movement, which pro
duces the half-hour TV show, argued that
the cable channel has implemented the
fee only one time since its adoption in
1988 — when the movement approached
the cable channel about airing the pro
gram.
‘‘They simply did not want this program
on the air because of what we are saying,”
Nationalist Movement attorney Richard
Barrett told the Houston Chronicle.
Because of the disagreement over fees,
a Houston-based contributing writer for
the show, Robert Horton, sued the city
and Access Houston Cable Corp. in No
vember 1992 on behalf of himself, the
group and its subsidiary. Nationalist Tele
vision.
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Virus
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viruses weekly, but deals
with only a few here.
He said there will al
ways be a few viruses on
any computer network, in
cluding A&M’s, but as long
as students practice safe
computer habits, their
computers and data should
be safe.
Friemel said a security
measure people should
take is to have a good virus
scanner such as Norton or
McAfee anti-virus software
which can be updated reg
ularly via the Internet to
protect from the new virus
es that come out every day.
Another measure is to
not open attachments to e-
mails from unknown peo
ple. Friemel said e-mail is
the most popular way for
viruses to spread and the
only way you can get virus
from an e-mail is to open a
program that is attached to
the actual e-mail message.
Reading messages will not
give a computer a virus un
less the e-mail program be
ing used automatically
opens certain programs in
cluded with the message.
Childs said he suggests
using a different operating
system other than Win-
dows98 and Windows95
such as OS2 or UNIX be
cause the majority of virus
es, including Melissa and
Worm.Explore.Zip, will
only affect Windows98
and Windows95.
Friemel said testing
new software from disks or
from the Internet is also a
good security measure.
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