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...Kathleen Babineaux Blanco make every effort to get federal help...
Early Wednesday morning, Aug. 31, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Blanco was frantic. Without any aides along, she and her husband had made an unannounced visit to the Superdome the night before and seen how desperate the situation there was becoming. The arena was teeming, its roof was leaking, and people had begun dying. "They were scared; they were upset. A lot of emotions were coming from them. Some were sick. They needed their diabetes medicine," the Governor told TIME in an interview. "What we were dealing with was a minute-by-minute life...
...would mistake Blanco, 62, for Rudy Giuliani. In the first week after the storm hit, she came across as dazed and unsteady, at one moment in despair over "people probably who are on drugs, who are threatening other people, who are causing our rescue effort to stall"; at another, declaring her troops had "M-16s, and they're locked and loaded...
Tourists and residents who chose to stay put and a largely low-income population unable to flee are islanded from an escape, surrounded by looting, undocumented rapes, and death. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said that as many as 300,000 residents may not have evacuated the city...
...thin margin of 36%-34%. Many residents have close ties to Spain, and most don't speak Basque. A majority of 59%, however, thinks the government should allow a referendum to go ahead. Before it comes to that, the Basque government faces regional elections in the spring. José Blanco, Secretary of Zapatero's Socialist Party, hopes local party candidates can do well enough against Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party to head off a collision with Madrid. And the Socialists say they can fine-tune relations with the Basque Country without resorting to a constitutional amendment. "We are firm...