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...Christopher Blythe of the Citizens Utility Board, a Wisconsin consumer-protection group. "What's next, the L.A. police department trying to buy civil rights credits from Wisconsin?" While this trading system may increase the chance that some regions will suffer from more acid rain, it should encourage a nationwide cleanup of SO2, which the Clean Air Act wants to reduce by 10 million tons a year. "I'm not quite sure what people are complaining about," says Daniel Dudek, senior economist for the Environmental Defense Fund. "We want to accomplish our environmental goals with the least pain possible...
...COUNT MIGHT YET GO HIGHER: SOME 200 OF THE nearly 2,400 injured might succumb, and cleanup crews might find more bodies in burned-out buildings. But the death toll, currently 53, already certifies the Los Angeles riots as the bloodiest in the U.S. in at least 75 years. And the embers from more than 5,500 fires still smolder, metaphorically -- as George Bush found out touring the riot areas last week. His guardians were so concerned for his security that they would not tell TV crews what route he would take, lest live coverage draw hostile demonstrators. But some...
...sees a "white truck driver" ad, the Clinton camp has an image it will "definitely" use this fall. "What we're all about is the post-riot video," says deputy campaign manager George Stephanopoulos, "the shots of blacks and whites and Hispanics and Asians pushing brooms together in the cleanup. In a nutshell, that's our whole campaign. Everything else is secondary. The way to defeat wedge issues is with web issues. The Republicans are geniuses at playing to people's fears. But this is not 1988. Today the decline is everywhere, and everywhere evident to everyone. We think people...
Backers of the law consider it long overdue. The old-line krewes, secret outfits whose memberships are never revealed, exclude not just blacks but also women, gays, Jews and Italians. They pay only $100.25 for parade permits but enjoy full city support, including police protection and street cleanup. Proponents of the new law argue that the issue goes beyond racial discrimination during Mardi Gras. Some of the most important krewes have direct ties to such hallowed hideaways as the Boston, Louisiana and Pickwick clubs, where important business deals are often hammered out. Says Taylor: "The Mardi Gras issue is only...
...year later, the cleanup effort is nearly complete, but scars remain...