Jack Kent Cooke

The administration position is that movies should be censored in this country for violence, but must be shown without impediment in France.Don, in his goodness, would build the Redskins a stadium in Camden Yards with our money. Jack Kent Cooke will build it in Laurel at his own expense, out of sheer wickedness.

Headlines in yesterday's Sports section incorrectly characterized the status of the Cooke family's ownership of the Washington Redskins as a result of Jack Kent Cooke's death. There are no plans to sell the team.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 4/09/97

Q. Who is stronger-willed, a few Haitian hit men in uniform or the entire morally outraged world community? A. No contest. The former.What this country needs is an attachment that will do for guns what seat belts do for cars.That evil son of a Cooke, Jack Kent Cooke, better stay out of Baltimore. Mrs. Cooke, however, is always welcome.The Board of Estimates is out of comptrol.

Olympic judges are not Oregon judges.The biggest spy coup in the world didn't keep Gorby's Soviet Union from going down the tubes.The FCC is reducing your cable rate and asks only that you remember Bill with gratitude on Election Day.Don't tell Jack Kent Cooke but if he moves the Redskins to Laurel, the CFL could put a great franchise in RFK.

We're leaving Somalia and going into Haiti. Next year, vice versa.At last, a court ruled that killing a confused foreign student who comes to the door to ask for directions is wrong, even in Louisiana.Sauerbrey calls Glendening a liberal. He called her a conservative. It's getting nasty.A new mayor of Washington gives owner Jack Kent Cooke a chance to save himself from the folly of moving the Redskins to Laurel and opening RFK in DC to the CFL.

But does Bankers Trust understand about lacrosse?The Housing Department is the agency of Baltimore government that transforms decrepit houses into rubble and poor people into destitute. Elsewhere, these tasks are left to private enterprise.Like an ancient pharaoh, Jack Kent Cooke built his own mausoleum.D6The Os went 4-1 without Robbie? Is there a moral?Pub Date: 4/09/97

If the Washington Redskins ever move to a race track, they will be renamed the Laurel And-Hardys.Think of Jack Kent Cooke as the Robert Irsay of D.C. And Merlin as his Ind'nap'lis.Who says we're bush league? Our murder rate is higher than in Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago or New York.An international study says that most of the people employed at American schools are not teachers, as the pupils always suspected.

Final record: 8-7-1No playoffs: The Redskins narrowly missed the playoffs for a second straight season because of some home-field upsets. Last year it was a 37-34 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at RFK Stadium; this season there were defeats by the Ravens (20-17) and St. Louis Rams (23-20) at Jack Kent Cooke Stadium.News: Coach Norv Turner said yesterday he doesn't believe holdout defensive tackle Sean Gilbert will come to contract terms with Washington. Gilbert sat out the entire season when the Redskins would not raise their offer from $3.5 million to $4 million a year.

RALJON -- This hamlet of 81,000 part-time inhabitants will disappear next week, peeled from local history like an old decal from a car window.The neighbors say good riddance.Daniel Snyder, new owner of the Washington Redskins football team, is restoring Raljon to Landover.Born in the spring of 1996 on 200 acres of Prince George's County farmland next to the Capital Beltway, Raljon was the football kingdom of Jack Kent Cooke, the mercurial and powerful owner of the Redskins. He stitched together the names of sons Ralph and John in naming the turf beneath his stadium and the vast expanses of blacktop surrounding it.The U.S. Postal Service even bestowed its blessing -- not only accepting the name Raljon, but granting Cooke's request for an exclusive four-digit extension to the Landover ZIP code.

Phone messages had arrived with the rapidity of a machine gun. Call Jack Kent Cooke. Important. Call Jack Kent Cooke. Urgent. Call Jack Kent Cooke. Now. His call-back numbers had been left in the newspaper sports department, at home and even relayed by mutual friends.We had committed the careless mistake of not being present when Jack Kent Cooke was calling. An immediate attempt to reach Cooke, late in the day, found him somewhere other than his office, in-town residence, country estate or limousine.