Word: alabama
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Elected in 1986 as Alabama's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction, Guy Hunt stirred the party's hopes of expanding the G.O.P. base in Dixie. Those dreams dimmed last week when Hunt was charged with stealing $200,000 from his inaugural fund and other crimes. Hunt insisted that the indictment was "baseless." Since last September, a grand jury has been investigating the Governor's financial dealings, including allegations that Hunt, a Baptist preacher, used state planes to fly to religious engagements. No charges have been filed in that matter...
...August, Miami Hurricanes team members were charged with defrauding the government out of scholarship money. In November, Washington Huskies players were accused of selling guns and pocketing improper loans. But in the end there was some good football. Fans were treated to a true championship when second-ranked Alabama whipped No. 1 Miami 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl...
...true, it could rank as the dirtiest trick of them all. In an article in the New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh claims that unreleased archive tapes reveal that Richard Nixon tried in 1972 to link Democratic Party officials to the shooting of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Elvin Stanton, Wallace's chief aide, is calling for the release of all tapes dealing with the Nixon-Wallace affair, now held in secret in the National Archives. But Nixon lawyer R. Stan Mortenson ridiculed Hersh's sources for the story as "incompetent, clerical- level archivists...
...graveyard, its iron fence mangled where a sixth-grader crashed a car he had hot-wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning the school custodians splash bleach against the doorways to wash away the stench of urine. Behind the building are the projects -- public housing and empty lots. On the playground, thieves have carried off whatever of the jungle gym is not bolted...
Everywhere, there are lessons in contrasts. In Room 212, Gloria Sheila McCart ney's fourth-graders sing "the gospel train is acomin' " and drown out the incessant scream of sirens from Alabama Avenue. The rosebushes planted outside were hacked to bits by vandals; but inside, preschoolers nurse acorns in paper cups and watch for signs of growth. This is a neighborhood where a child could get stabbed over a pair of sneakers; but the students of Malcolm X Elementary dress in uniform, the boys in white shirts and red ties, the girls in plaid jumpers. "If we don't hold...