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Louisiana is truly a country to itself with a unique culture. Aside from the Cajun food, which is top-notch in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and in many of the small towns en route between the two, Louisiana offers an eclectic mixture of French and Spanish culture, a view of the Old South, and temperatures in the 70s in February...
...bright, crisp Midwestern day in 1997, and the small-town parade could be something out of Ronald Reagan's childhood scrapbook. Main Street is lined with townspeople applauding as the baton twirlers, marching bands, basketball squads and quilting clubs make their way past. But the clapping abruptly stops as some bright red banners come into view. Adorning them are the faces of two heroes from history: Abraham Lincoln and Lenin...
...cocaine from facilities like Tranquilandia, a massive complex of coke-processing laboratories in the Amazon jungle that Colombian authorities busted in 1984. The Medellin drug barons were also indicted for plotting the murder of Adler ("Barry") Seal, a drug ( smuggler turned informant who was gunned down last February in Baton Rouge, La. Seal was to have been the Government's star witness in the trial of the cocaine kingpins...
...stands in center stage holding a candelabrum. Thirty-six Rockettes perform their automated scissors kick. Skyrockets flare on the back scrim. And then Glitter Beau Peep his bad self emerges from the stars-and- stripes Rolls-Royce in a red, white and blue hot- pants outfit and flourishes his baton like the most cunning majorette from Camp Camp...
Enter W. Henson Moore, a six-term Republican Congressman from Baton Rouge who is running for the Senate with a stern message for voters: "It's morning in Louisiana. The party's over. It's time to put our people back to work." Moore, 46, could become Louisiana's first Republican Senator in this century. In Saturday's "open" primary, a nonpartisan melee in which any candidate who gets more than 50% of the vote is automatically elected, he has a fair shot at winning outright the seat being vacated by the wily Russell Long after 38 years...